By
GustavoLeao /
15:54, 13 February 2013 /
Star Trek: Nemesis
TrekWeb talks to Star Trek Into Darkness production designer Scott Chambliss in this exclusive chat. Interview : Gustavo Leao
Mr Chambliss, what was most demanding on INTO DARKNESS ?
Figuring
out what we wanted our most dangerous environment to be. So many
possibilities…and we tried virtually everything. And this being STAR
TREK we have dangerous spots all throughout the story. But for the big
one, It was down to the wire. What we finally landed on wound up being a
huge, impressively textured, and utterly gross set to work on.
Everyone had to wear protective glasses and breathing masks to work on
that stage!
Will we going to see new parts of the Enterprise interior ?
Hmmmm….have you been looking at the trailers and the studio-released photos lately? Therein you'll find your answer.
The last trailer scared the fans showing a half-destroyed Enterprise in orbit of Earth. Any comments ?
Are you sure it was the Enterprise? This is a
J.J. Abrams movie after all!
Would you send a message to the fans regarding your work in INTO DARKNESS ?
My
message is my work itself. I leave it to others to define it for
themselves. Isn't that one of the great qualities of the experience of
watching a movie? Our responses to what we see are always utterly
subjective in the end. That to me is the gift of any storytelling art
form: it has the possibility of affecting so many different people in
so many different ways. Some of the movies that have affected me most
over the years are virtually unknown or under-appreciated works that
have had a profound impact on how I do my job. And those movies usually
aren't all about big production design. They're always about how
successfully a story is told, and somehow the physical environment is a
critical though not necessarily showy character in the process. Good
visual storytelling thrills me.
Finally, if JJ Abrams call you to work on Star Wars, will you be pleased with the invitation?
I'm
pleased anytime JJ calls me. But I'm booked on the
Brad Bird/Damon
Lindeloff movie TOMORROWLAND presently, and it looks like our schedules
are in utter conflict. C'est la vie.
Thanks, Scott.
My pleasure, Gustavo.
