They may look like industrial parks, but these vast factory blocks house the amazing sets for blockbuster movies like Star Wars and James Bond
Fantastic aerial shots reveal the bland-looking studios where Skyfall, Harry Potter and Star Wars: The Force Awakens were filmed
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By Anna Matheson
29th November 2016,1:12 pm
Updated: 8th February 2017,12:41 pm
THEY may look like humble factories and business parks, but some of the world’s most celebrated film stars have graced the sets of England’s top film studios Pinewood, Leavesdon and Longcross.
Amazing new aerial shots reveal the somwhat bland exteriors of the studios that are brimming with all kinds of imagination inside, creating some of the world’s biggest blockbusters in the process.
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Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire is famed as the home of the James Bond franchise, including Skyfall, but has also seen big budget productions like Nanny McPhee and Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Warner Bros studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire is home to big blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter
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Longcross Studios in Surrey is home to TV favourites Call The Midwife and Broadchurch, as well as big blockbuster films
Pinewood Studios has a rich film history tracking all the way back to the 1930s. It was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, hosted army film production units during WWII and became the home of the Carry On and Doctor films in the 1960s.
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Pinewood is home to the 007 Stage, originally built for 1997’s The Spy Who Loved Me, but has since been rebuilt twice after being destroyed by fires
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Pinewood’s proximity to ancient woodland Burnham Beeches and Black Park meant it was a desirable location for films including Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix
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In 1989, the set of Batman’s Gothic City was constructed at Pinewood
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Cinderella, Fury, Gravity, Ant-Man and X-Men: First Class are just a few of the blockbusters filmed at Pinewood in the last few years
Recent times have seen Benedict Cumberbatch grace the stages of Pinewood for his role in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, as well as the stars of last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Pinewood’s owners have constructed multi-million pound grass roofs to help the units blend into the surroundings
Warner Bros studios in Leavesden is another big budget studio hidden in the English countryside and is home to the Harry Potter franchise as well as big film industry hitters like Jason Bourne and Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
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The site was once an aerodrome, but now hosts scores of actors and crews creating much loved blockbusters
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Eddie Redmayne headed to Leavesden to film recent hit Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Most famously the home of the Harry Potter franchise, for which the site still hosts a visitor attraction, Leavesden is the site of choice for upcoming action films Wonder Woman and Justice League.
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While the studio is owned by Warner Bros and is home to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, studio space is available to rent for any production
Charlie Hunnam is currently filming upcoming epic adventure King Arthur: Legend of the Sword at the legendary studios. It’s also Guy Ritchie’s latest directional effort.
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The set for the upcoming epic King Arthur: Legend of the Sword can be spotted at Leavesden
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Leavesden Studios was once an aircraft factory and airfield during World War II, a centre of aircraft production
The studios contain around 50,000 m2 of space and even one of the largest filtered and heated stage-based water tanks in Europe.
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Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill have been filming upcoming adventure Justice League at Leavesden, due for release next year
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The site was officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2013, twenty years after it’s original conversion into studios and a year after refurbishments
Another of England’s biggest studios is nestled 25 miles west of London in Longcross, Surrey.
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The classic Kenneth Branagh movie Murder on The Orient Express was filmed at Longcross Studios
More recently, Longcross has been home to some the nation’s favourite TV
programmes, including Call The Midwife and series two of Broadchurch.
