Ragnarok’s production designer, Dan Hennah, who designed Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, escorts us to another huge, vacant set. This one has a kooky, jumbled aesthetic, like a giant McDonald’s playground but painted with a washed-out colour palette. On screen it will be an alien planet called Sakaar. Hennah estimates that “maybe a quarter” of the movie takes place here, a “shanty town” populated by “aliens of all different sorts”. You come here, he explains “if you’re flying around in space and you hit one of those wormholes”.
“We take pride that the armour of the main characters is made in-house – the old-fashioned way,” Rubeo says, as half a dozen colleagues around her busy themselves with sewing machines and fabrics. The costume designer talks excitedly about the “Scrapers”, who she says are people “that live in the wastelands of Sakaar”.
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