(I know some of this has already been covered, I was late to the party due to the difference in time zones)
Dr.D wrote: ↑November 6th, 2019, 3:46 pm Given what looks like Slimer in the bottom right corner, I think this is one of the sets for Halloween Horror nights maybe?
Unless there's a third park that was doing Halloween Horror Nights, it's neither of the Firehouse sets that were built for Universal Studios. Those were were scaled-down representations, and the more elaborate of the two was featured at Orlando:
-Universal Studios Florida
-Universal Studios Hollywood
While there still isn't anything that definitively proves this is for the new film, something to remember is that Jason posted this back at the end of May:
Which at the time suggested a possibility he might be doing some sort of Firehouse recreation, be it a flashback, or a contemporary scene. Given the set looks like Venkman's office circa 1984, I'd lean more towards it being a flashback, with Oliver potentially playing a stand-in for Egon.
However, it's not impossible it's for a contemporary scene set in 2020.
That being said though, the amount of detail they've gone to doesn't strike me as a simple fan film project, or some promotion event like was suggested in the Reddit thread... They've gone to the effort to pop in a wooden tripod to the left of the shelves behind Venkman's desk, make a really similar style of nameplate, locate the same kind of desklamp, find some close approximinations for the chairs surrounding the desk, and even find a small period-looking mini lamp for the back shelves... Even the panelling is a very close approximation of what was built for the first movie... It's not dead-on, but it'd pass muster even for this obsessive's eye.
It's a lot of work to go for it not to be a set from the new film. I'm happy to eat humble pie if it doesn't prove to be the case, but I'm willing to state here that this recreation of Venkman's office
has been built for use in Jason's film.
As for the duplicate newspaper clippings, the duplicates may well be placeholders for more plot-specific fake articles that haven't been prepared yet, but could be swapped in digitally at a later stage - like the photograph of young Abby and Erin in
Answer The Call:
groschopf wrote: ↑November 6th, 2019, 7:20 pm Also, I find it interesting that the alleged set loses detail as it goes up the wall. reminds me of when I 3D model and only build out detailed areas that I know will be in the shot.
I suspect that they didn't anticipate they'd be showing much of the back wall of the Firehouse's engine bay, so kept the uppermost section of the office above head height fairly basic. If they need to feature more of the Firehouse engine bay, I bet you it'll be in there as a digital matte painting... They may have even left off the top cornice of the office wall for that specific reason.