“We had a tour a few years ago in a virtual studio in Los Angeles and on the wall was this giant poster, which showed the process I was lucky they let us shoot a lot of it in a more guerrilla-efficient way. Hopefully the movie looks like we spent a crazy amount of money on it. We ended up working backwards. Normally what you do is design the world, show the studio, someone budgets it and says, ‘This is going to be $200 million. And the only way you can possibly film it is against greenscreen and do all of the effects.’ I was like, ‘I don't want to do that. We want to go to real places in the real world, shoot as if it exists, everyone imagining everything there, come back and edit it, and when we've got the edit finished we'll design it.’ We'll sit down with frames from the actual film and paintover them per shot, give that to the VFX company and say, ‘Make a photoreal version of this.'”
