The Incredible Cloned Castle


Poltergeist: The Legacy is about the San Francisco branch of the organization called The Legacy, who have their headquarters in a large castellated mansion on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.

The interiors of the headquarters were filmed in studio sets, but the exteriors were views of Hatley Castle, Colwood, British Columbia, Canada.

Hatley Castle has been used for exteriors and/or interiors of many other fictional mansions in movies and television.

It was also Lex luther's residence in Smallville, the ancestral home of the luther family which his father, Lionel Luther, shipped across the Atlantic and reassembled near Smallville, Kansas.

In Masterminds it was the Shady Glen school in Calforinia.

It was also the Osbourne Mansion near New York City in Fierce People.

It is Professor Xavier's school in the X-Men movies.

In The Duke it is a country house in the UK.

If all those movies and tv shows were in the same fictional universe there would be at least half a dozen different clones in different locations around the world of the same castle deign.

Of course there are many other real mansions which have each appeared as several different fictional houses in different regions.

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I believe the castle is also used in Arrow as Oliver Queen's home.

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I have to look closely at those movies and show now. Magnificent exterior!

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The castle is now used by Royal Roads University, and there are classes and admin offices using the building. There is a small museum in the basement & a gift shop (that sells mostly University t-shirts etc). There are guided tours of the exterior and 1st floor, for a fee.

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Hatley Castle has also been used as Auradon Prep School in the fictional Kingdom of Auredon in the Disney TV movie Descendants (2015) and in Descendants 2 (2017).

And the Queen mansion in Starling City in Arrow (2012-).

And the senator's house in The Changeling (1980).

And The place the Russian President leaves in a helicopter in Canadian Bacon (1995).

To clarify about X-Men, Hatley Castle is listed as a location in X-Men 2 (2003) (under the name Royal Roads), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and X-Men: First Class (2011), but not in other X-Men movies. Professor Xavier's mansion and school is supposed to be in Westchester County, New York.

To also clarify, Masterminds is Masterminds (1997), Fierce People is Fierce People (2005), Smallville is the TV series Smallville (2001-2011), Poltergeist: The Legacy is the TV series Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996-1999), and The Duke is The Duke (1999).

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