“ Roofman ” director Derek Cianfrance wanted everything to be real for his latest film, and he didn’t want to cut any corners. So the film’s production designer, Inbal Weinberg, was in charge of recreating a Toys “R” Us store circa 2004.

Weinberg went on a nationwide search to see if any stores still existed and found there were hardly any left after the retailer filed for bankruptcy in 2018. She eventually found a deserted Toys “R” Us outside of Charlotte, N.C., where they would be filming.

“There was nothing there. The floor had been scraped, and we really had to start from scratch,” Weinberg says.

“Roofman” follows the true story of Jeffrey Manchester ( Channing Tatum ), a man who robbed McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname “Roofman.”

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