Oct 272021
Hollywood loves trashing cities like New York, LA, San Francisco. Take for example “San Andreas” where a series of unlikely earthquakes topple all of LA and SF. The thing I often wonder about, though, is the legality of it: recognizable buildings like the Transamerica Pyramid are private property; someone owns them. The whole city is covered in private property. What legal monkeymotions does a studio have to go through to be able to “destroy” a known building and not get sued silly? Because if they had to do that for every recognizable building in movies like “Deep Impact” where all of NYC gets wiped out, the cost and complexity would seem prohibitive.