Bears and Building Sets

                         Black Bear                                        Keith Richards credit: Ken Regan/Camera 5                 Revenant concept sketch credit: Kirsten Franson

One of the best parts of living in Connecticut beyond dreamy barns and stone walls framing fields of daffodils are the wild things among us. Nothing like a nice dose of an unexpected glimpse of a wild thing! Like Keith Richards. And now. We have bears.

In the award winning film The Revenant, bears deliver so much punishment that any romantic idea one might have of a chance sighting near the BBQ is positively squelched.
 
For the film, production designer Jack Fisk choreographed the infamous bear sequences and other wildlife pummeling, and designed a savage and memorable stage set of 1800’s trapper culture.
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Production designer Jack Fisk talks to AD about bringing the 19th-century frontier to life in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film