![]() ![]() "It was a fantastic location because it was a peninsula of volcanic rock," says Eggers. "We were looking for a spit of land that could play as an island," which is what led the team to Cape Forchu, says Lathrop. The addition of a specific foghorn sound is what placed them in the 1890s, and, of course, the notion of the men being trapped is what placed them on an island. So we knew that was going to place us in the second half of the 19th century." "They look like Art Deco spaceships, and they are very magical and jewel-like. So we knew we needed to set it in a period where we would have a Fresnel lens," he explains not many lighthouses still have functional ones today. "I wanted there to be a mystery in the light. Photo: A24 PicturesĮggers visited lighthouses in Maine, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, and California and looked at images of ones as far as South America and Europe as research for the project, but ultimately he knew from the beginning that his set would have to be built from scratch to include the specific elements he envisioned. Pattinson becomes hypnotized by the lighthouse's light. Later, the lantern was moved to a studio in Halifax, where many interior shots took place. "That was anchored with five-foot iron bars that were drilled and epoxied into the bedrock, and then several tons of concrete as well." Inside the tower was a climbable steel spiral staircase, and at the top of it was a historically accurate plexiglass replica of a Fresnel lens, the very sort of sculptural, Art Deco–looking light source that would have sat atop a lighthouse at the end of the 19th century. "The structure of the lighthouse was tube-and-clamp scaffolding," says Lathrop. In just six weeks, production designer Craig Lathrop and his team created a 70-foot-tall lighthouse tower, the lighthouse keepers' quarters, the long breezeway connecting the two, and several outbuildings on the peninsula. Her mother, who married the lighthouse keeper, died when Nemo was a child, so she and dad have to keep each. They are tested to the point of unraveling, and though the film's crew certainly didn't meet the same fate as Thomas and Ephraim, they (and Pattinson and Dafoe, presumably) felt a certain kinship with the characters after erecting a lighthouse and filming the movie in harsh conditions on Cape Forchu, Nova Scotia. The Gist: Nemo lives in a lighthouse with her father the keeper, Peter (Kyle Chandler). ![]()
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