Started by Ingwar, Oct 08, 2018, 07:05:23 PM
QuotePeter Christoffersen, Selina Jones, Morgan Santo, James Harkness, Kim Engelbrecht, Jennifer Saayeng have joined the cast of Raised by Wolves.
QuoteJones will play "Grandmother," a god-like android, built thousands of years ago by members of the lost civilization that existed on Kepler 22b.
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on May 20, 2021, 06:16:33 PMQuoteJones will play "Grandmother," a god-like android, built thousands of years ago by members of the lost civilization that existed on Kepler 22b.Ummm, yes please.
Quote from: Ingwar on May 20, 2021, 10:32:30 PMQuote from: Nightmare Asylum on May 20, 2021, 06:16:33 PMQuoteJones will play "Grandmother," a god-like android, built thousands of years ago by members of the lost civilization that existed on Kepler 22b.Ummm, yes please.But what about grandfather?
Quote'Raised By Wolves' Production Designer Chris Seagers On Building Android Settlement In South Africa & Tony Scott Encounter That Shaped His Career – Production Value
QuoteOn Raised by Wolves, production designer Chris Seagers oversaw the creation of a primordial settlement inhabited by androids, who have recently crash-landed on the planet known as Kepler-22b.A primary challenge, per Seagers, was to bring this world to life with "ridiculously short" prep time, at a moment when "there was no stage space available anywhere in the world."Limitations in stage space meant the shoot would have to take place on location, and while Hungary was looked at as a possible base for the show, Seagers and his collaborators ultimately decided on South Africa."I remember I got a call from Mark Huffam, the producer, to say, 'You're going to fly to South Africa on Sunday night. We need to hear from you by Wednesday. If you think we can do it, we'll be on the plane on Thursday, and we've got to lock it down on Saturday.' That's how quickly it happened," Seagers explains in the latest installment of Deadline's Production Value video series. "Then, by Saturday, I was hiring people to start on the following Monday."Created by Aaron Guzikowski, and executive produced by Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centers on androids Father (Abubakar Salim) and Mother (Amanda Collin), who are tasked with raising human children on Kepler-22b after Earth is destroyed by a great war. Seagers would lay an aesthetic foundation for the HBO Max sci-fi drama as the production designer for its first two episodes, directed by Scott himself.Heading into the shoot, Seagers was well aware of how difficult a big-budget sci-fi shoot in South Africa would be. "Building spaceships is hard wherever you are," he says, and much more so when you're "in the middle of nowhere." Many other logistical challenges came part and parcel with the project, simply because its main set was "halfway up the mountain, and...a long way from Cape Town."Seagers was also keenly aware, though, of the production value that comes with shooting in South Africa, given its otherworldly backdrops, which perfectly suited the story at hand. "All those shots with all that rolling cloud coming over the top of the mountains, all of that was for real. That's what happens when you have the arid desert terrain on one side of the mountain hitting the moist sea air coming from the other side," he notes. "Everybody thought that that was Ridley's sci-fi...but Ridley wanted to try to get a lot of that stuff in-camera."Given that the main environment in the first two episodes was "the big key" in selling the reality of Raised by Wolves, the designer and his team landscaped and otherwise "sculpted" a massive piece of terrain "to create this 360-degree set," featuring crop circles, huge rock formations, the androids' futuristic residence (based structurally on "an upside down jello mold") and more.While his construction team built spaceships "like boats", Seagers also supervised the digging of a "very, very big hole" for the purposes of the story. "We could only go 25 feet deep because in South Africa, if you go any deeper, you have to get a mining license," he shares. "So, we ended up building that for all of our immediate shots, and then we built another 80-foot high hole, in order to do all the stuff in the hole."
QuoteSeagers also supervised the digging of a "very, very big hole" for the purposes of the story. "We could only go 25 feet deep because in South Africa, if you go any deeper, you have to get a mining license,"
Quote from: Ingwar on Jun 18, 2021, 01:28:50 PMNewest Q&A with Ridley Scott and Aaron Guzikowskihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtpPpoDZDs&t=208s