On March 21, 2010, while filming the Battle of Hogwarts for Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the Hogwarts set caught on fire.
When you look at the satellite view of Leavesden Studios on Google Maps, you can see ten houses along a road, five on each side. This set was created as Privet Drive.
Leavesden Studios was originally built as an aerodrome in 1940. Many airplanes were built there at the tail end of World War II.
As it is an old aerodrome, none of the stages are soundproofed.
The 200 acre Studio houses over ½ million square feet of covered production space and nine giant stages in excess of 145,000 sq. ft. The runway is 3000 feet long.
Apart from the Potter series, movies filmed here include Sleepy Hollow, Golden Eye, Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace and Mortal Kombat Annihilation.*
*Others not included are: Die Another Day, The Dark Knight, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Inception.
Read more about the film studio here.
[Source: Hollywood Reporter, Wikipedia; Images: Google Maps, Wizarding Life, Wikipedia]
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