SilverWook said:
I imagine a similar reaction ensued when the makers of Die Hard found their Nakatomi Plaza.
There's no such thing as bad publicity though. The hotel used for the location shots in The Shining, and the one the interior sets were modeled on have both warmly embraced their connection to the film. ;)
Funny you should say that...
"Die Hard's" Nakatomi Plaze is right down the street from where "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" was shot in Century City. Fox Plaza in Los Angeles, portrayed "Nakatomi Plaza" in that film.
It's location is at
2121 Avenue of the Stars (at the corner of
W. Olympic Blvd.)
Century City, Los Angeles, California
The two filming locations are on the land that was once part of the 20th Century Fox studio back lot, and before that the area was the ranch of cowboy actor Tom Mix
In this historic photo (pre-1950) of the old 20th Century Fox studios, What would become Avenue of the Stars today (not shown in this picture), runs down the center of the photo from top to bottom. It's current location is just to the right of the top to bottom road that is shown in this photo. What is today's W. Olympic Blvd. can be kind of made out as a winding dirt road cutting through the property from left to right about half way up the photo. At this time it was nothing more then a 20th Century Fox studio back road. The only thing that still exists of the film studio today is all in the lower left hand section of this photo. Santa Monica Blvd. runs from left to right at the top of the picture.
