“I wanted it to have scale and be abstract, and its something you hopefully havent seen before.
He worked with a calligrapher to create an entirely new alphabet for the fictional Yamatai region.
“All those signs and symbols mean something.
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“We twisted it.
Thats what we did on the opening of the door when she solves the puzzle.”
It also took six months to create from conception to completion via 3D printer.
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“Ramonda [wears] the married womans hat.
Thats a South African, traditional custom hat that has a cylindrical shape.
“We also 3D-printed her collar piece, I call it her shoulder mantle.
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She also looked to designers like Gareth Pugh, Stella McCartney, and Issey Miyake.
The Black Panther suit, which Carter says she was able to personalize in small but meaningful ways.
Bayona consulted with volcanologists to ensure accuracy.
They just had to condense the explosive timeline to fit within the world of the film.
“Its not the easiest way to do things.
The actors, the director, and the camera operators have something physical in their environment to work with.
“That meant we controlled the weather in many ways.
It gave us a good basis for us to build our visual effects on.”
“The log was definitely a callback toJurassic Park.J.A.
wanted to put a twist on it.
That meant changing and adapting their perspective as often as the film’s wild, alienesque setting.
They struggle with smaller stuff.
“Having something that feels metallic helps with that.
“We looked at a lot of paleolithic art and the way that ancient cultures presented the human form.
We looked at a lot of Cycladic, early Greek art with featureless faces.
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The Shimmer is abuzz with bugs!
“Alex was walking past a shop where he lives where they sell beetles mounted on boards.
He bought one and gave it to us.
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“When you see her face, her body is real and completely from the original movie.
We lifted the images from the original film.
When we reverse on her [when shes] walking toward H, thats a double.”
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But the river of liquid that oozes out was created via a painstaking cross-checking process.
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Paramount Pictures and Skydance
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