Consider it a rite of passage for all the most ambitious productions.
In order to film all the scenes set in the Shire for “The Lord of the Rings,” Peter Jackson had his production crew plant vast amounts of gardens and vegetation in New Zealand over a year before filming even commenced to help transform the already beautiful countryside into the most idyllic parts of Middle-earth.
In “Interstellar,” the stubbornly practical Christopher Nolan insisted on growing over 500 acres of actual corn …
mostly just for the brief scene where Matthew McConaughey drives his pickup truck through a field to track down a drone.
With “Rebel Moon,” director Zack Snyder found himself in a similar predicament.When /Film was given the opportunity to visit the set of this new space epic, which started out as a “Star Wars” pitch before the director repurposed his script into an original story, Snyder opened up…
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