Production Designer Daniel Taylor On Creating A Frozen Maze For HBO’s ‘True Detective: Night Country’
deadline.comDark secrets lay deep below the icy surface in HBO’s detective anthology drama True Detective: Night Country. Set in the frigid fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, the show follows officers Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), who team up after a group of scientists vanish in the middle of the night and are then found dead with their frozen bodies entangled in the snow.
The investigation of their death leads the pair to unearth a conspiracy in a network of ice tunnels. Here, production designer Daniel Taylor talks to Deadline about how he conceptualized the dark secrets and chilly caverns in Iceland to portray a small town in Alaska. DEADLINE: You met Issa López on a British production some time ago, right?
And then she referred you to True Detective? DANIEL TAYLOR: Exactly. I work with her on a Sky Atlantic show, and she came in and did a couple of episodes and we hit it off.
I had to build a really big set for her, this two-tiered gallery Game of Thrones kind of hall, which was amazing fun. Because we got on really well, she was like, “Listen, there’s a chance that True Detective might be happening.
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