Filming location for prison in The Prestige (2006) and Papillon (2017) [closed]

Filming location for prison in The Prestige (2006) and Papillon (2017) [closed] - A Man Holding a Video Camera

I'm looking for two filming locations that I suspect might be the shot at the same location:

  • the prison from The Prestige (2006) where Borden is locked up Prison in The Prestige

  • the first prison location in Papillon (2017) where the Papillon character is locked up before he is shipped to French Guiana Prison in Papillon

I can see that the first one has a brick wall and the second on a plastered wall, but when watching the film I had a feeling the location as a whole looked very similar.

I reviewed the filming locations as listed on IMDb, and it appears that Papillon was shot mainly in Europe and The Prestige in the USA, but I don't know if that listing is complete.



Best Answer

I doubt they're the same. I found two other sources for locations info on both movies & they don't really even share a continent.
The Prestige Locations claims it's entirely US-based.
Papillon remake starring Charlie Hunnam wraps filming in Malta mentions several, from Malta to Montenegro, but nothing US.

One thing you will never be able to tell from either of those shots - nor even sometimes if you see things in long-shot [I can't remember how wide we ever see these two locations in the movies] - is if they're even real places or movie sets, indoors or out.

You can literally rent a prison if you need one - here are some from the UK on UKFilmLocation.com - but sometimes it's easier/cheaper to build one. You'd be amazed at how big a set can be sometimes… especially if they fill the distance with CGI.

This is one on a backlot at Warner Leavesden. I've been on it [though they've changed it a lot since for another movie the basic structure is still the same]
Spot the join between real & CGI. I know where it is & I still can't see it.

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This entire movie was shot indoors on sound stages and you still can't tell

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Just for fun - everything below the red line is real [ including the cars and people etc], everything above is CGI.

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I might be one floor out, left or right. Even knowing, it's still impossible to tell for sure




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Where was the prison in Papillon filmed?

The St-Laurent-du-Maroni penal colony scenes were actually filmed in Falmouth, Jamaica, and the swamp scenes were shot near Ferris Cross.

Where was Papillon filmed 2017?

Production. Papillon was shot in different locations around Europe including Montenegro, Malta, and significantly, in Belgrade, Serbia.

Where was the film The Prestige filmed?

The Prestige was filmed in Downey Studios (Closed), Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Greystone Park & Mansion, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Koreatown, Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building, Los Angeles Theatre, Mount Wilson, Mount Wilson Observatory, Palace Theater, Park Plaza Hotel, Pasadena, Redstone Castle ...

Where in Colorado was the prestige filmed?

The Prestige (2006) \u2013 Telluride, Durango, Silverton Railway Line. Nikola Tesla did in fact live and work in Colorado Springs. Though the film's actual locations were in Telluride and Silverton, CO in the San Juans, there are still some views at the top of Cloudcamp in CO Springs that have some epic scenery.



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