Film Studios
From the late 1980s and onward, Treasure Island's old aircraft hangars served as sound stages used in filmmaking and television productions.
In 1988, Treasure Island stood in for the Berlin airport in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Numerous pictures starring Robin Williams were filmed on the island, including Flubber, What Dreams May Come, Patch Adams and Bicentennial Man. Sigourney Weaver's character in the thriller Copycat lived in an impressive private compound on the island. Also filmed there was The Parent Trap and it was used in an establishing shot of The Caine Mutiny, the trial which ostensibly takes place on Treasure Island, though this is never mentioned or referenced in the film.
Treasure Island hangars served as the stage location for the "bullet time" visual effect in The Matrix, as soundstages for the film adaptation of Rent directed by Chris Columbus, and also "The Pursuit of Happyness" starring Will Smith.
For three years Treasure Island served as the site of Comedy Central's Battlebots television show. The offices and penthouse apartment sets in Nash Bridges were located on the island during the show's production (1996–2001). The island was featured as the base of operations for the prototypers in the 2008 Discovery Channel series Prototype This!.
One of the warehouses on Treasure Island served as a film setting for an NBC series titled Trauma.
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