San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside. Although Los Angeles and the West Coast have been treated as a futuristic concept geographic region by different names in other works — Los Andiegoles in the novel "A Friend of the Earth", Rattown in the novel D...
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San Angeles is a fictional futuristic concept of Southern California, United States, typically configured by commentators and films producers to include the areas of Los Angeles to San Diego and sometimes even San Bernardino to Riverside. Although Los Angeles and the West Coast have been treated as a futuristic concept geographic region by different names in other works — Los Andiegoles in the novel "A Friend of the Earth", Rattown in the novel Dr. Adder, and Mega City 2 in the movie Judge Dredd — San Angeles remains the more popular identifying description.
San Angeles was first conceived as a setting for the 1982 movie Blade Runner in an early script. Ten years later, the 1993 script for the 1994 movie Double Dragon, post-earthquake California merged Los Angeles and San Diego into one megalopolis called San Angeles, half of which was under water. At about the same time, the San Angeles concept city also was used in the 1993 movie Demolition Man, where the earthquake destroyed Los...
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