9 Movie Sets Recycled In Other Movies
4. The Phantom Of The Opera Becomes The Muppets
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to... reuse the set of a 1925 silent horror film?!?! Yes. Yes, it is.
That 1925 silent horror would be The Phantom of the Opera, with the legendary Lon Chaney in the role of the titular Phantom. For that film, Universal Pictures went all-out and built a giant opera set that was said to hold over 3,000 people.
The issue is, once you finish filming that movie, what do you do with such a gregarious beast of a set? Why, you simply leave it in the Universal Lot to gather dust. And that's precisely what happened.
That is, of course, until Kermit and pals raced to the silver screen in 2011 with a new Muppets picture.
Titled simply The Muppets, the crux of that movie was the Muppets and Jason Segel on a mission to save the Muppet Theatre from bankruptcy. In case you've yet to piece the puzzle together just yet, yes, the old Phantom of the Opera set was recycled and used for the aforementioned Muppet Theatre.
Since then, the giant theatre set has gone back into storage - although this time the set has been dismantled and stored securely, rather than being left to just rot.