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Los Angeles, often abbreviated to L.A., is a large city in California on the west coast of the United States of America. It was once the second most populous city in the U.S. after New York City.
History
Prior to the attack, crowds of UFO enthusiasts gathered on top of skyscrapers, such as the First Interstate Bank World Center (which was the primary landmark targeted by the City Destroyer) to welcome the aliens directly beneath the City Destroyer's center. The city was obliterated, killing thousands of people.
First Lady Marilyn Whitmore was in the city attending a campaign fundraiser and barely survived the destruction. Jasmine Dubrow and her son Dylan traveled through the city's ruins and helped in finding survivors, including the First Lady, and led them to El Toro.
Following the attack, the VMFA-314 Black Knights launched a disastrous assault on the City Destroyer over the ruins of Los Angeles.
After the War of 1996, reconstruction of Los Angeles began in 1997 and was completed before or around 2010.[1]
Gallery
The Destruction of Los Angeles
Los Angeles after the destruction
The Battle of Los Angeles
Behind the Scenes
- The digital particle fire elements designed to match pyrotechnician Joseph Viskocil's miniature explosions was used for the wide shot of the expanding blast ring in Los Angeles.
- Visual effects supervisor Volker Engel makes a cameo in the LA destruction sequence as a "guy doing some filing" inside an office building.
- The ruins of Los Angeles were shot at the Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana, California, the location used for the post-apocalyptic terrain at the beginning of Terminator 2 (1991). Clay Pinney and his practical effects team spent two weeks dressing the location with propane fires, broken fire hydrants and burnt-out cars prior to filming. They also created a two-hundred-foot wall of smoke to hide the undamaged buildings in the background.