When Tim Burton signed to direct Batman in 1989, he was not ready for absolute torture He would have had to pass while filming. The director was essentially a newcomer, after only making the great adventures of PIVs and Beetlejuice before taking over what would prove to be a big blockbuster in Batman. As such, his experience of making the film in 1989 was nothing less than the baptism of fire. Not only did he have to constantly fight Warner Bros. to maintain his artistic vision and retain the key parts of his script and Sam Ham, but he oversaw the schedule of grueling shoots that included shooting six days a week, usually by 5:00 or 6:00. Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman resulted in controversy that Burton fought for his leading man.

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Given all this, it is no wonder that the director chose to record "Batman" through the pond, away from the reactions and executions in the studio. The manufacturing base was the studio of England Pinovud, where production designer Anton Furst raised huge kits of the city of Gotham, some of which were 600 meters high. It was in this fabricated Gotham, Burton and the team shooting almost the entire film, just advocating a few scenes and establishing footage.

A large location that was not part of Furst's industrial nightmare was an "Osas Chemical", in which Jackack Nicholson Jackec Skirer turns into the Socker. This whole scene was shot in London Akton Lane Electrical Station, where another blockbuster in the 1980s not only fired, but left behind goals for the Batman team.

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The Akon Lane electrical station, which opened in 1899 and closed in 1983, was perfectly suited for Batman. Her slightly dilapidated industrial interior was perfectly melted with the design of Anton Furst production and seemed perfectly fitting Tim Burton's vision for a darker dark knight. As such, the director was more used by Acton Lane than any other set based on Non-Pino.

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In the film, Jackec Skier arrives at the chemical factory with his pigeons just to realize that he is placed by the head of the crowd Carl Grisom, played by Hollywood legend Jackack Palance (who at one point shouted at Burton on the "Batman" set). After the police arrived to take him in custody, Batman descended to try to shoot down his gang, but ended up accidentally causing a bullet to ricochet from the forearm of the forearm and in the face of the Wirer. The drink then falls from a balcony in a US with chemicals, and thus turns into a clown prince of crime.

The axis appears several more times in the film as the basis for Okeroker's poison cosmetics operations before Batman blows all the work with a grenade delivered through a Batmobile. Therefore, Acton Lane was a particularly important location for production, even if it is not part of the expansive and impressive set of Pinewood. But when the "Batman" crew appeared on Akon, they already found the remains of another film set: The Xenomorph basket of "Aliens".

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In the sequel to JameSeims Cameron in 1986 at Alien's Ridley Scott, Ellen Ripley, secure Waver, joins a team of colonial marines while examining the exomone LV-426, where the field colony darkens. Once there, they find the colony abandoned and infected with xenomorphs, who created a basket in the depths of the processing station, home to home Queen Xenomorph (which was much harder to create than you think). This basket was created in the 1985 Akton Lane power plant, which, like Batman, was the perfect competition for the film's aesthetics.

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Of course, the production team "foreigners" had to wear the property much more than Burton and the company. After clearing the location of the asbestos, the "foreigners" crew filled the power plant with resin and eggs, along with several colonists who were captured by the Xenomorphs and suspended in the resin set by Wallsids at the processing station. But several key features of Akton Lane's power plant were still visible in the film, including the red fences set by the tracks. These can also be seen multiple times in the chemical scenes of the Batman axis, and the stairs Ripley walks are down are the same as Jackack Nicholson Jackec Skirer when trying to escape a firefighter.

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Interestingly, a supplier seat used in the "aliens" also found himself in Batman. The interior of the APC M577 set from "foreigners" included a seat that was confirmed by users of Forum RPFA pilot chair taken from the aircraft in the era of the 1960s. It seems that the same chair is re -used because the seat is used by Bruce Wayne at Michael Keaton in Batkave. It is unclear whether the Batman crew found Akon Lane's chair or whether he was left behind in the Pinovuwood studio, where he fired "aliens". But clearly, Tim Burton and Cameron's film shared similar aesthetics, and since Burton was under pressure what was, why not make things easier?