![]() ![]() “From there on each had a required environment. He’s more comfortable there than with his fellow human beings,” Craig says. He lands down below and in that shed is his workshop. ![]() “One of our early decisions was to give Newt a shed in this magical space. ![]() The suitcase opens a pocket dimension that provides an almost infinite space for Scamander to take care of his charges, but Craig says tackling the design was difficult because “there were no rules, no precedents.” If that wasn’t enough, the biggest challenge for Craig’s staff of 30 designers and artisans actually turned out to be creating the incredible suitcase the film’s lead character, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), uses to protect rare magical creatures. That seemed like a very good idea for this secular, magical cathedral we had built.” Horizontal bands of marble in two contrasting colors. “Realizing it was this great cathedral of light made me think of Sienna Cathedral in Italy where the interior is banded in light and dark color. “We’ve seen the London ministry and for the American one, the requirement was different levels in the basement - a wand registration office, a typing pool, prison cells and then one level above street level for a huge concourse and then above that no floors at all,” Craig says. The historic building’s exterior and lobby provided an inspiration for the magical version hidden from the eyes of American muggles. Rowling had also scoured the city beforehand and chosen the iconic Woolworth building as the headquarters for Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA), a key location in the movie. They took thousands of photographs, however, and visited abandoned banks and the Tenement Museum, among other locales, for reference. What was intriguing, fascinating was how to do it.”Ĭraig and his colleagues took two trips to New York where they quickly realized the only way to create the big extensive period-looking streets was to do so on the back lot of Leavesden Studios outside of London. ‘Fantastic Beasts’ is set in 1926, but it feels like a contemporary film and the ‘Harry Potter’ films feel like a period film because of the architectural start - it all feels kind of switched. “They are about modern kids in jeans and T-shirts. “The strange and interesting thing about ‘Harry Potter,’ those films, those kids are contemporary,” Craig says. ![]()
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