EXCLUSIVE: When Deadline visits Sky Studios Elstree there is a hawk named Zeus arriving on site to scare off smaller birds making their homes in the warmth of the site’s 12 soundstages.
Several major movies have, however, already taken flight at the 586,800 sq. ft. site in Hertfordshire, 15 miles outside central London.
Not to be confused with the UK’s historic Elstree Studios, the site provides a home for projects from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Sky as well as third parties.
Zeus’ services were not required when local songbirds made the studio their home in real-life foliage on a Wicked set, and, in fact, their warbling remained in the final cut.
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