10 Movies You Didn't Know Recycled Footage From Other Films
2. Blade Runner Recycled Weather Footage From The Shining
When the original ambiguous ending of Blade Runner went down poorly with test audiences, the studio urged Ridley Scott to shoot a more optimistic conclusion for the cinematic cut, and that would involve Deckard and his lover leaving the dystopian cityscapes behind for a new life in the sprawling countryside.
There was just one problem: miserable weather during a location shoot didn't fit in with the tone of this upbeat ending. Scott's solution was to call up fellow filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and request B-roll footage from The Shining.
When adapting the Stephen King novel, Kubrick shot around 17 hours of helicopter footage of the Montana mountains, most of which never appeared in the film.
But some of it did appear in the theatrical cut of Blade Runner. Those brilliant blue skies and snow-capped mountains that accompany Harrison Ford's final voiceover are all Kubrick's handiwork.