Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) re-used the rocket launch scene from Apollo 13 (1995)

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3720-To-One on May 17th, 2020 at 16:04 UTC »

That looks like a giant...

Vrost on May 17th, 2020 at 16:21 UTC »

The Austin Powers movies are pretty much the perfect comedies to me. According to Mike Meyers he actually wrote the first movies script in just 3 weeks, and ~30% of the film was improv! Source

Fando1234 on May 17th, 2020 at 16:24 UTC »

Totally remember clocking that at the time!

There's an episode of the x files with like a haunted elevator (or something like that) that uses the footage from Speed.

I guess sometimes it's less expensive to buy the rights than have a design team create from scratch.