How Production Designer Nathan Crowley Wove Together Trees And Made A Castle Float To Expand The World Of Oz In ‘Wicked: For Good’

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• “We come back some years later, the Wizard’s building yellow brick roads and oppressing the landscape, so where has Elphaba gone?” Related Stories Below The Line How Writer-Director Rian Johnson & Cinematographer Steve Yedlin Went "Theatrical With Natural Light Shifts" For 'Wake Up Dead Man' News Jon M.
• Chu Signs First Look Deal With Paramount One of the first locations Crowley had to think of, story-wise, was where Elphaba would be hiding out.
• “It started with having this dense canopy that she just flies into, and then we intertwine all the tree trunks and branches and it creates a nest,” says Crowley.
• Watch on Deadline Constructing the nest for Elphaba’s hideout.
• Universal Pictures When Crowley says “intertwine all the tree trunks and branches”, he means that literally, as he had a greens department who wove together the space with actual wood and branches.