When the possibilities for a film’s locations are both picturesque and sprawling to the extreme, the only way forward is to scope out every option. Or at least that was the approach for legendary production designer Jack Fisk (“Tree of Life,” “The Master”) when, in April 2014, he signed on to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s frontier revenge drama “The Revenant.” Read More: Review: Alejandro G. Inarritu's Fierce And Unremitting 'The Revenant' “I always feared that we'd be shooting a location and someone would walk around the corner and say, ‘Well, why aren't we shooting over here? It's so much better than the one you picked,’ ” Fisk said, speaking over the phone recently about his early Canadian scouts with Robin Mounsey, supervising location manager. “So basically I wanted to systematically cover every inch of Alberta.” With gargantuan mountains, wide rivers, and billowing prairies, the province of Alberta proved the...
- 1/8/2016
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