Readers noticed the omission of one particular project in our year-end compilation of 15 shipping container projects from 2010. If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later torn down.
Justin Springer, co-producer of TRON: Legacy, explained to Jetson Green in an email: “The shipping container house style was chosen because [director Joseph Kosinski] and our production designer, Darren Gilford, couldn’t find a house for Sam Flynn in Vancouver with suitable architecture and as designers both were interested in retro-fitted shipping containers as living spaces.”
Disney Enterprises, Inc. was kind enough to provide the concept art shown in this article and a film frame showing Garrett Hedlund and Bruce Boxleitner in the container house. If you want to see a little more of Flynn’s container home, watch the beginning of this official trailer on YouTube or go catch the movie in theaters now.
Credits: © Disney Enterprises, Inc.
In case anyone is interested, the location looks like it was in New Westminster.
http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217038552279929048955.0004991a79dadbdeffaf0&ll=49.209052,-122.897782&spn=0.000382,0.001947&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=49.209052,-122.897781&panoid=AKJ3xKoFsSpHxkVpAWlnBQ&cbp=11,92.23,,0,0.79
From the street view, it looks like they had it placed right on the tracks.
It was great fun to pick out all the Vancouver landmarks (watched it this past Monday)
Cool 🙂
Too cool! Always enjoy container structures. Probably due to my dad’s discussion of wanting to create our vacation home out of discarded railroad cars he had seen. Never did materialize (late 1960s), but it was fun to dream about!
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@ vince hodges
thats not the right bridge – its actually next to the ironworkers second narrows bridge
That what I thought, it looks like North Vancouver looking across the water.
It looks exactly like the Quik House by Adam Kalkin
http://www.quik-build.com/quikHouse/QH_main.htm
why does the article not include adam kalkin’s name , this is his design…….did they steal it???
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Sam’s house was actually located at the North end of Iron Workers Memorial Bridge near the Lynnwood Marina.
Hope this helps 🙂
This was based on a Quik house that I found on-line. I am considering building one myself as I reckon you could sort it yourself for cheap! 5 containers and some garage doors with underfloor heating, get in!!!
http://www.rhinogifts.co.uk/products/1086/bullet-snuffer.html
cooool D00de .
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