The Ledger
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Hindle: Severance creators abandoned budget constraints, causing costs to explode
“We didn't have any on service. We just abandoned that thought. Like the cinematographer, Jess and Ben and I, we were like, What do we want to make? And we just made it. The budget exploded. It really did.”
Hindle: Severance production design team does not use any AI
“Well, there's also, AI's a funny one, because we don't use any AI.”
Hindle: Top Gun cockpit contained $3 million Skunk Works prototype buttons
“There's buttons in there that are two, three million dollars that are from prototypes that only 10 people know what they are.”
Hindle: Severance was originally budgeted to shoot on location like The Office
“It was budgeted exactly like the office shoot in the location.”
Hindle: Severance built a Season 2 birthing cabin for just one scene
“Because we have sets that, you know, the birthing cabin in season two. We built it. It's only in one scene. But it's a particular scene. It's, that's, it's destroyed. Well, never, it doesn't exist anymore.”
Hindle: Zero Dark Thirty used 300 bricklayers for six weeks on compound
“It was 300 people laying bricks for six weeks, just non, just, it was a factory line.”
Hindle relies heavily on CGI set extensions and cleanup for Severance
“We use it a lot in severance. We use it a lot. I use it on everything. It's, it is, and I just do a lot of cleanup now.”
Hindle: Traditional broadcast news sets are boring and only care about logos
“Those sets are, they're just designed for this. They're all they care about is their logo. It's so boring.”