However, Ethan also doesn’t seem all straight and narrow. With the police and his father getting involved, it makes things more complicated. But that’s not all, Jackson’s obsession goes too far when he starts to harm himself and pins it on his tutor. The lavish seafront estate of Tony Vivaldi ( Anthony Quinn), where Slater and Danny confront Mr Benedict ( Charles Dance), the henchman with a penchant for wacky eyeballs, is 28824 Cliffside Drive, perched on a cliff on the south side of the Point Dume peninsula in Malibu.Īlso in Malibu is the video store (remember video stores?), which was then a branch of Blockbuster – and is now now CVS Pharmacy – in Malibu Colony Plaza, 23805 West Malibu Road.The two-minute trailer is packed with unsettling moments, like Jackson showing up unannounced at dinner with Ethan and his wife, or, when Jackson confronting Ethan with very personal questions.
Fans of TV series Angel will recognise it as the headquarters of interdimensional law firm ‘Wolfram & Hart’.ĭanny’s school, ‘Lincoln Elementary’ is a standing set on the Sony lot, built during the Twenties, while ‘Elsinore’ in the Hamlet fantasy scene is the castle built for Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s where you’ll start out if you take the Sony Pictures Studio Tour – which covers the old MGM lot. The vast, glass-walled police station is the atrium of Sony Pictures Plaza, Madison Street at Washington Boulevard, in Culver City.
The premiere of fictitious actioner, Jack Slater IV, is held on the other coast, at the RKO Twin Theater, Times Square in New York, where a giant inflatable Arnie sways about on the sidewalk. In a re-run of Terminator 2’s road-into-flood channel leap, a car flies into the LA River channel at the First Street Bridge. The house where Jack Slater comes close to getting blown up is on the 1100 block of Angelina Street, downtown Los Angeles. It’s also where Mary Jane ( Kirsten Dunst) makes her ‘Broadway’ debut in Spider-Man 3. This beautifully restored gem of a picture palace can also be seen in Tim Burton’s masterpiece Ed Wood, Kenneth Branagh’s flaky Dead Again, Oliver Stone’s The Doors, and more recently as the site of the movie premiere upstaged by Jack the terrier in The Artist. The interior of the ‘Pandora Theater’, where Danny uses the ticket to enter the world of action star Jack Slater ( Schwarzenegger), is the Orpheum Theater, 842 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles. Last Action Hero location: Danny enters the movie world with his magic ticket: Orpheum Theater, 842 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles
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