Production
Designer Rick Carter, whose credits go from Back to the Future Part's
2 and 3, Jurassic Park, Lincoln and Avatar, recently spoke with CS
and talked about being a consultant on Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic
World and J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII.
About
Star Wars: Episode VII, Carter said that:
"I
offered my services to Kathy Kennedy," he says, "who I had
known for a long time. I said, 'If you're going to get involved with
'Star Wars' in this new generation, I'd love to be a part of the
dialogue and help'. She invited me in last January and that's what
I've been doing ever since. Then J.J. [Abrams] came in and we hit it
off."
Carter
is working in pair with a younger designer named Darren Gilford and
he describes the partnership as:
"We're
kind of both production designing the movie as a team," Carter
continues, "to help give J.J. the best of what his generation
and the new generation can offer with Darren Gilford and also myself
as a guide that takes us back to not so long, long ago, but to the
70's where I was around and making movies that old-fashioned way.
Whenever we want to touch that level, it relates to something that's
not just being made up as though it's new. It's being rediscovered."
Regarding
Trevorrow's Jurassic World, Carter says that he only worked as a
consultant:
"I
came into that one as a visual consultant," he says. "I
just worked for four months to get it going. To try and visualize
where this could go next and make sure it had some the same --
literally the same -- DNA of the previous movies. Ed Verreaux is the
production designer on that one. He did the third 'Jurassic Park'.
We've worked together going all the way back to 'Back to the Future'.
It's a real hand-off between the two of us. He's the production
designer and the director's a new director named Colin Trevorrow.
He's a big, big talent."
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