10 More Movies You Didn't Know Recycled Footage From Other Films
4. 6 Underground Recycled A Shot Of A House From Pain & Gain
Say what you want about Michael Bay, but as mega-budget filmmakers go the guy has a surprisingly economical sensibility, frequently recycling shots throughout his filmography.
You're probably aware that car chase footage from The Island was re-used for Transformers: Dark of the Moon - albeit with 500% more CGI robots - and perhaps also that clips of an aircraft carrier from Pearl Harbour re-appeared in the original Transformers, but you might've missed a subtler act of recycling in his recent Netflix action flick 6 Underground.
Mid-way through the film, One (Ryan Reynolds) delivers a monologue about his past accompanied by a dizzying montage of footage.
When he mentions "cleaning house," we literally get a shot of a house being sold - the very same house that was featured in Bay's 2013 action-comedy Pain & Gain.
In that film, the exact same house is used for the scene where Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and Robin (Rebel Wilson) buy a home, which they then ecstatically roll around in front of.
While the specific shot of the lawn is different - in that it doesn't contain Anthony Mackie or Rebel Wilson - it was clearly excess material left over from Pain & Gain's shoot, rather than Bay returning to the same location again to capture what is basically a throwaway image of a house.