Just reading the plot to ‘Obliterated’ would be enough to scare off most Vegas big-name casinos.Īccording to the LVRJ, the series involves a fake nuclear bomb threat to Sin City that turns out to be real, with the heroes of the piece blowing their operational budget early “on a party suite, booze, and a veritable buffet of drugs.”ĭidn’t want us running through these hotels with guns.” So, viewers will see the scene unfurl against the familiar Nevada hills on a Rio-shaped casino digitally re-named The Citadel to satisfy executives. The Dreamscape Companies-owned casino-resort, however, didn’t want its name in lights. Instead, the scene was shot atop the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The Las Vegas Journal-Review cited Josh Heald, one of the three creators of ‘Obliterated,’ as stating: “It was absolutely the gun violence.” Heald explained that a sniper scene scripted to be filmed at the top of The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower was ditched after executives at the casino-resort “got cold feet.” The creators of a new action-comedy Netflix series debuting this week have revealed why Las Vegas’s casinos gave them the cold shoulder when casting for film locations.
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