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This Castle is Everywhere

posted 7 years ago by MAGolding (1228)
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If every movie and TV series happened in the same fictional universe, many buildings would exist in many identical copies around the world.

Hatley Castle, an old mansion now part of Royal Roads University in Victoria near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is one of those often seen buildings. (during World war II it was planned to move the British Royal family into Hatley castle if they had to flee to Canada.)

It has appeared as the Senator's house in The Changeling (1980). The Senator's house could be in Seattle, Washington, near Washington DC, or somewhere else.

It was a place the Russian President left in a helicopter in Canadian Bacon (1995).

It was the headquarters of the San Francisco branch of The Legacy in the series Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996-1999).

In Masterminds (1997) it was the Shady Glen School in California.

It was the mansion of a British duke somewhere in the UK in The Duke (1999).

It was the Luther mansion, transferred from the old country to Smallville, Kansas in Smallville (2001-2011).

It was professor Xavier's school for mutants in Westchester County, New York in X-Men 2 (2003).

It was the Osborne Mansion near New York City in Fierce People (2005).

It was professor Xavier's school for mutants in Westchester County, New York in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).

It was professor Xavier's school for mutants in Westchester County, New York in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

It was professor Xavier's school for mutants in Westchester County, New York in X-Men: First Class (2011).

It is the Queen Mansion in Starling City in Arrow (2012-).

It is Auradon Prep School in the fictional Kingdom of Auredon in the Disney TV movie Descendants (2015) and in Descendants 2 (2017).

[–] TexasJack (12516) 6 years ago

Interesting. I was always curious about the real location for Professor Xavier’s school.

Another frequently filmed mansion is the Biltmore estate in Asheville, NC:

- Tap Roots, 1948: Van Heflin and Susan Haywood star in this oddball adventure.
- The Swan, 1956: Starring Grace Kelly, a fairytale comes to life as a princess is courted by a commoner.
- Being There, 1979: Regarded as Peter Sellers’ last great screen performance, he takes a turn as a simple gardener who rises to great political heights.
- The Private Eyes, 1980: Tim Conway and Don Knotts search for clues in this whodunnit mystery.
- Mr. Destiny, 1990: Jim Belushi portrays a high-school baseball championship strikeout who muddles along until he receives a little help from Michael Caine.
- The Last of the Mohicans, 1992: Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe bring James Fenimore Cooper’s novel to the silver screen.
- Richie Rich, 1994: Macaulay Culkin portrays the comic book billionaire.
Forrest Gump, 1994: Tom Hanks changes history as a mild mannered man.
- My Fellow Americans, 1996: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, and Dan Akroyd duel it out in the political comedy.
- Patch Adams, 1998: Robin Williams portrays a rural doctor in the 1950s.
- Hannibal, 2000: Anthony Hopkins stars in the sequel to “The Silence of the Lambs.”
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green, 2012: Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton star in this magical story of a childless couple that finds a mysterious child.

[–] MAGolding (1228) 6 years ago

Thanks for the info about Biltmore.

I wonder if all of them showed the Biltmore mansion itself or if some of them only show some of the extensive grounds of the estate. For example, in The Last of the Mohicans 1992 the mansion could have portrayed a castle/palace in Europe or maybe a fort in America, or maybe only the forests on the estate were been used for the forests of upstate New York.