I feel like the strip club and the Vegas segments have a different color scheme and are quite different with their purples and the blues as well. I felt like those vibrant hues were nice to showcase the fantasy version of reality, whereas then all the colder stuff is kind of stark real New York.
When we first started prep in Atlanta, Dan Aykroyd was there with Jason and they were doing a pickup shot on the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. So I’m in my office and all of a sudden Jason comes in with Dan in front of this big model. We asked him questions about how accurate was this set we built. Jason posted it on his Instagram. It was wild to get that sort of validation in a way. It was really fun getting his feedback.
“Some things were kind of surprisingly homey, and I thought, if I replicate this, it’s going to look like we can’t afford to do this stuff.”
“I’m first and foremost a cinephile, our aspirations are always cinematic and all of our references are always cinematic. And I think the beauty of Noah and the show as he manufactures it year by year is its containment and that it is, in this case, a 10-episode movie, and I don’t treat it any differently.”
“Capote gigantic viper, just a stuffed snake that sat on the coffee table right in the middle of the room. I don’t know what it meant to him, but it’s the kind of detail that you can’t not put in there.”
“For the Arctic Research Center, an inspiration was inside the spaceship Nostromo in Alien; we wanted that kind of sense of foreboding terror that it needed to feel slightly macabre, a bit sinister.”
‘My Google search history was awful during that time period. I can imagine it now, ‘What does acid look like as it eats through skin?'”
