8 Movies That Had No Regard For The Environment

In what might be the most wasteful film shoot of all time, Cecil B. DeMille, who was known for going way over budget and ignoring deadlines on a regular basis, ordered an absolutely humongous set to be made for his 1923 Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments.

The story was set in ancient Egypt but filming was set to take place in California, so DeMille's team got to work on creating the largest film set ever made at the time. With gigantic pharaoh statues, multiple sphinxes, hundreds of chariots, and so much more, the set was beyond anything ever seen before and the production studio even got mad at DeMille at one point, threatening to cancel the whole project unless he calmed down a little.

All of the set was prepared in Hollywood and then transported more than 100 miles to the sand dunes DeMille had chosen to film in. When filming wrapped up, it would have cost even more cash to dismantle all that set and ship it back to Hollywood, so DeMille then paid for the whole thing to be covered in sand and left buried for decades. It was the movie-making equivalent of a million people going for one huge picnic and leaving all their rubbish behind.