Art director Mags Horspool explains the work that went into one of the scenes in The Jacket, for which she had to make central Scotland resemble the landscape of Vermont. The Graveyard (pictured below):
'This sequence. shot in the radius of Bangour's grounds. was quite involved for us. We were fortunate with the angle that the shot was taken from because just beyond Bangour‘s graveyard the land dips right down to meet the church, and that dip hid the road and other sections of Bangour that we might have had to deal with to make this look like Vermont. A London-based effects company covered the ground with a blanket of snow. and we added a number of mock gravestones carved with the deceased names. one of them being that of the lead character Jack Starks [Adrien Brody]. The rest of the graves were mocked up out of timber and painted up to look like stone and arranged so as to replicate a very meagre graveyard.’
A Lanarkshire quarry (above) was used for the scenes of war in Iraq. The sand colour was matched to that In the Middle East. The diner scenes (left) were shot in Canada.
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The art director
Mags Horspool
Horspool‘s credits include Dear Frankie and Saving Private Ryan. On The Jacket she supervised the team that made Scotland look like both Vermont and Iraq.
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The Actor
Daniel Craig
Craig got one of his big screen breaks starring in Maybury's previous Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. Working with Maybury again was high on the possible future James Bond’s agenda. He plays mental hospital inmate Rudy Mackenzie.
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