![]() “You begin to divide the space and reinvent a landscape composed by many other spaces, and bend your research in a unique direction to create a cartography where every set is directly connected to the next one. “It’s an exciting challenge when you read a script and it has a description of an arrival in a city on the Amazon River with a couple of streets, a big market, a harbor with four boats, a hotel, a restaurant, a cruise company building and our hero Frank’s skipper building workshop and pontoon,” says Puzos. Each building is replete with artifacts, furniture, books, trinkets-and this focus on authenticity helps give the film its naturalistic flavor. ![]() Every structure-from the Porto Velho town set and Nilo’s (Paul Giamatti) jungle cruise operation and tavern to Skipper Frank Wolff’s steam cruiser, La Quila, and his home on the water-is a functional building not a mere movie set façade. Built on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a visitor would be excused for mistaking the set for an authentic Amazonian village, circa 1916. ![]() Puzos designed a variety of vivid tableaux for the film-including a London set where the movie opens and closes and a remote village in the heart of the Amazon jungle-but perhaps most impressive was the sprawling jungle port town of Porto Velho. Jungle Cruise director Jaume Collet-Serra ( Non-Stop, The Shallows) turned to French production designer Jean-Vincent Puzos ( The Lost City of Z, Amour) to help bring this otherworldly journey through a verdant mystical jungle on a creaking old tramp steamer so dramatically to life. Disney’s Jungle Cruise, which floats into theaters and Disney+ Premier Access on July 30, tells the heart-racing-and often hilarious-story of Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt), a doctor in botany who hires skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) to embark on a grueling journey up the Amazon River in search of a legendary tree that can cure all human ailments. ![]()
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