This is a nine-and-a-half-foot tall creature with eight-foot-long arms, and a head full of huge horns, so you start to run into the problem of physics and weight. "From there, we went through a process of exploration with different faces, different ideas for surface textures for the creature, and then, on top of that, I had to figure out how to make all of this work on set. We have a small army of really talented artists here who then start creating maquettes in the computer and maquettes in clay, and then we'd get verbal directives from Guillermo and emotional cues from Scott." "Guy's designs were essential in helping me be able to wrap my head around what needed to be manifested into the real world for his character.
Shane and the rest of the team at Legacy were able to use Davis' artistic vision as the creative foundation for the design of the Wendigo that they needed to be able to fully realize for Antlers, and by incorporating feedback from both Cooper and del Toro, they were able to bring this nearly 10-foot tall beastly behemoth to life for the film. They sent me some top-secret initial sketches from Guy Davis, which were the basis of the creature, but it ended up changing a lot through the process." So the possibilities with Antlers were exciting. We do a lot of adventure movies, action films, and create whimsical characters, but very few films come our way that are actual true horror films, and with something that's a brand new character, too. "At Legacy, we don't get to do horror films that often. Scott himself set the mood, the drama, and the setups in Antlers, which he was quite amazing at." And so, this one being with Scott Cooper, who had never done a creature film before, Guillermo was looking out for Scott in terms of the creature. With Guillermo, I feel like he gets a great deal of pleasure collaborating with whatever team and whatever facility he has working with him.
I find him to be a real kindred spirit in terms of he just loves creating creatures. Our duties there were the mechanical suits, so it was a very mechanical-oriented show, but it was a really tremendous opportunity to get to know Guillermo at the time. "We first met with Guillermo on the original Pacific Rim. Produced by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro and based on the short story by Nick Antosca, Antlers is the bleak story about the insidious nature of trauma that takes the form of the Wendigo who brutally annihilates anyone who happens to come its way.įor Shane Mahan and the rest of the Legacy team, Antlers marks yet another collaboration between the award-winning FX studio and Hollywood's biggest monster kid out there, who previously collaborated with their team on The Shape of Water. This past weekend, Scott Cooper's Antlers finally made its way into theaters everywhere after a pandemic-related delay.
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