00:00Good to see you. I love your time. I love your dress. Thank you. I got it. I got it from eBay at a beautiful consignment shop on eBay, so I'm very happy about it.
00:07It feels like inspired by the movie, inspired by your set. Thank you very much. That is exactly why my art department, many of the girls in my art department said it looked like it was inspired by our Fortress of Solitude design. So I went for it.
00:20What was the hardest set to design for Superman? The most challenging? The most challenging, definitely the Fortress of Solitude,
00:28mostly because we felt so much pressure put on ourselves to pay homage to the original and to keep audiences happy,
00:36but make sure it was a fresh and new imagination brought to it. But we really wanted to make sure that we paid good respect to what came before us in the 70s because that was an incredible set.
00:45So once we got our set, our set moved along and approved, building it was a massive challenge. We built 242 giant crystals.
00:53They're all real. Some of them were 40 feet long. They were real. Only the few behind the supercomputer,
00:59that part when Superman gets hit with the sun, as we've all seen in the preview, those were put in in CG for the movement,
01:06but everything else was real. Real crystal.
01:08And we bought all of the resin that existed on the eastern seaboard.
01:11What?
01:12We're sorry. If anybody needed resin in 2023, we bought it all.
01:15It's not something you hear very often.
01:18It's not something you hear often.
01:20How much does resin cost?
01:21You wouldn't even want to know, but it was worth it. Cheaper than a CGI set.
01:25We like that. We like that.
01:28What was it like seeing David as Superman on your set?
01:33That was the highlight of my career. That was hands down the highlight.
01:36Tell me about the first time.
01:37We had worked so hard. It took us about 16 weeks to build this fortress after designing it for about six months ahead of that.
01:44And I was standing there on the very first day shooting it.
01:46Nobody was in there. Nobody was cleared because they were going to be shooting an exterior.
01:50And I turned around and I saw David walking up the steps in his long red cape.
01:54He came right over, was so gracious, complimented the set.
01:57And then I got to give him a whole tour of it, just us.
02:00Was he dressed as Superman?
02:03He was dressed as Superman.
02:04You gave Superman a tour.
02:05I gave Superman a tour of his Fortress of Solitude.
02:08It doesn't get bigger than that.
02:09That's amazing.
02:10It's better than that.
02:12That's, you know what? Yeah, you're done. You're going to retire.
02:15I feel like I have to retire now. I feel like, mwah.
02:18So how many Supermans are you signed up to design?
02:21Let's hope. Let's hope many, many. Let's hope it's all incarnations of Superman.
02:25As has James spoken to you about his ideas for more Superman?
02:30Not allowed to speak about that.
02:31I know you're not, but I'm allowed to ask.
02:33I think, let's make this one a huge success, and then we'll come back for more.
02:39So, yeah. So that's the hope.
02:40And where's all the resin now?
02:42It is all in a warehouse in Atlanta.
02:44I am trying to get some of the crystals.
02:46In fact, we were so fortunate.
02:48We had Shaquille O'Neal came and visited our set.
02:50I got to give him a tour as well.
02:52And we promised him an 18-foot crystal that we haven't been able to release to him yet.
02:56So, Shaquille, I owe you a giant 18-foot resin crystal.
03:00I will get it to you.
03:01I promise.
03:03Wasn't on my bingo card today talking about Shaquille O'Neal and 18-foot crystals.
03:10That would make his yard come to life.
03:13Shaq, if you're watching this, you just get a hold of us.
