Much of Diamonds Are Forever Reimagined is set in Las Vegas, just like the original film. A large portion of changes to the original film take place in the middle section of the film, where most of the action in Vegas occurs.
Naturally, because a lot of the routes taken by the characters across Las Vegas in the film were altered for this fan-edit I needed to construct lots of exterior sets. Therefore, I went to the effort of not only researching Las Vegas landmarks from the late 60s/early 70s, but essentially doing some 'virtual location scouting'.
I had to reconstruct (sometimes only partially) the exteriors of a few of the famous hotels/casinos Vegas is known for, many of which no longer exist or have been refurbished considerably since EON Productions filmed Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.
A few of these hotels I attempted to reconstruct may remain unused in the finished film, but that all depends on how many more scenes I have to animate that can feature them.
For now though, here is a video previewing the locations that have been used so far. Photos of the actual locations as they appeared around the time are shown first, then the reconstructed segments in Moviestorm are shown afterwards.
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