‘Poor Things’, ‘The Marvels’ And ‘Barbie’ Production Designers On Creating Fantastical New Worlds Through Innocent Eyes
deadline.comIn most fantasy movies, the job of the production team is to create a breathtaking new world that dazzles the viewer, but this Oscar season shows a new trend: stories in which the characters themselves are taken on a journey of discovery and adventure.
In Poor Things, a young woman named Bella is brought back to life by a mad surgeon and goes sightseeing in Europe. In The Marvels, the MCU’s new worlds are seen through the awed eyes of Captain Marvel’s protégée, Kamala Khan.
And in Barbie, the Mattel superstar leaves her perfect life to sample the unknown pleasures of the real world… Poor Things For Yorgos Lanthimos’ screen adaptation of Poor Things, the director was interested in the premise of making a 1930s-style movie with the technology of today.
This meant that production designers Shona Heath and James Price were given the directive of crafting every set with the idea of creating a bespoke world no one had seen before. “It’s like looking through a child’s eyes with kaleidoscopic lenses on,” says Heath. “He wanted it to feel handmade, but not photorealistic, which is what you strive toward,” Price says. “But he also didn’t want it to go down a stylistic way for the sake of being stylistic.
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