Hostile Takeover


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A nice current Day shot of the houses south of the Rickenbacker Cswy from 3115 Brickell Avenue ~ looking north to 3031 and 3029 Brickell both of which were used in “Hostile Takeover” .

3031 (helicopter scenes), 3029 (all other).

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Just wanted to show the ultimate proof here for the El Gato hideaway filmed within the Burnett villa basement (710 Harbor drive).

In the comparison below we can see that the kink in the stairs and the distance between that kink and the end of the stairs where the daylight originates (Hostile takeover scene with the coffin in the lower left), is exactly matching with the stairs to the basement behind Burnett and Celeste (Redemption in blood) where they have the door to the stairway on the right behind them. No way that the kink, the angle of the kink, the distance to the basement door and the width of the stairs (this match I have shown in another post) is a coincidence. And nobody would have taken the effort to build a set in studio with all these measures matching exactly with the Burnett villa. As always: click to enlarge my wide angle pic!

P.S: I hope that @C Glidewill ever come back to the site to see all our findings and start updating his location site. Going by site statistics he has not logged on here since May 2021. I hope he is well!?

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The underpass of Rickenbacker causeway that was used in this episode as well as in Blood and roses, Walk-alone and Freefall (last scene filmed there) is unfortunately closed to the public and protected by police. We tried the other day to get there but no chance.

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vor einer Stunde schrieb Dadrian:

@Tom remind me:

Was that also the site (under construction) where C&T saved Lombards life from Charlie’s plot?

Correct. I forgot to mention that one. They filmed that when the new, higher causeway bridge was under construction (that was also seen in Definitely Miami). 

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View from the Rickenbacker Causeway bridge underpass to Downtown as seen in the scene with El Gato in the limo. This location is currently closed for traffic.

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I took these last week in Key Biscayne matching up what we saw in the excellent “Hostile Takeover” \ “Redemption in Blood” airing in the fall of 1988.

 

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