10 Movies That Left Behind Crazy Things On Film Sets
6. The Deep Core Drilling Platform Was Too Expensive To Dismantle - The Abyss
James Cameron's masterful sci-fi classic The Abyss largely unfolds on an underwater drilling platform known as Deep Core, with principal photography taking place at Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an incomplete power plant which was converted into a film studio.
The power plant-turned-studio ended up hosting two sets - a smaller one for miniatures and the main Deep Core set, which was flooded with 7.5 million gallons of water in order to fill 55 feet of space and sell that the platform was indeed deep underwater.
Given that the cast had to receive decompression treatments after spending so much time on this set, presumably they were pretty convinced by it too.
Though the power plant was technically a movie studio which could be repurposed for other productions, Fox never did anything with it after Cameron shot there, leaving the set untouched for almost 20 years as Fox apparently didn't want to spend the cash to take it apart.
Fans often visited the site and posted pictures of the still-standing Deep Core structures until they were finally demolished in 2007, while there are still-unrealised plans to build a new power plant there.
