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6. The Set Was Only Half-Built - 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
James Mangold's 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma is a certified banger of a Western, and given that Westerns typically require large sets to be built complete with elaborate costumes and so on, it's little surprise that they tend to be expensive movies to make.
3:10 to Yuma ended up costing $55 million, a relatively modest sum considering its scale and celebrated cast, and so the margins were tight enough that the movie was eventually shot without the central Arizona town being fully built.
During the film's action-packed climax, it's even easy to spot unfinished buildings in the background with scaffolding built up around them.
While they fit perfectly into the movie's aesthetic - buildings need to be built after all - the town was indeed originally meant to be finished before shooting.
Without any additional money to pay the crew to complete construction, though, many of them were left as half-built husks, with Mangold presumably having any contemporary-looking equipment shuffled out of the way before shooting.