The same structure also appeared as the Rammer Jammer restaurant on Hart of Dixie and the Lost Woods Resort on Pretty Little Liars.Warner Brothers (WB) is one of the 'Big Six' major film studios, say, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, Columbia and Universal, inclusive of Walt Disney, which is an independent one. The set piece is best known, though, for its role as Merlotte’s Bar and Grill, the watering hole owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell) on the hit HBO series True Blood. Positioned on the northern bank of the lagoon is a large ramshackle wooden structure that was originally built for the television series Invasion. Doug Ross (George Clooney) famously rescued a drowning boy. The lagoon was even transformed into a flooded Chicago city culvert for the Season 2 episode of ER titled “Hell and High Water” in which Dr. The cinematic stalwart has since gone on to mask as everything from rural Missouri in Million Dollar Baby to war-torn Vietnam on China Beach and 1870s Japan in The Last Samurai. The Jungle was originally constructed in 1956 for the filming of Santiago in which it portrayed Cuba.

Hundreds of species of trees dot the landscape surrounding the basin, as do several wooden structures, making it one of the most versatile spots on the backlot. At the center of the massive outdoor set sits a large 130x95-foot basin that can be filled with 250,000 gallons of water and dressed to resemble a lagoon, lake or swamp. Situated in the eastern portion of the lot is a lush, foliage-covered set known as the Jungle.

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