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The actors were shot in a stationary hero car on stage in front of green screen and the rest of the sequence was computer animation. Because there is so much traveling in the series (it's really a show about two guys on the road), two period airplane interiors were built. I knew that the plane interiors out there to rent were not correct, and I had just built Air Force One on House of Cards, so I decided to build the interiors of two of the most popular planes of the period, the Boeing 727 and 737. After extensive research by Set Designer Cassidy Shipley, two versions were worked up in plan. One had five seats across, and the other the typical six seats across. I reached out to Mark Thompson from Aviation Warehouse, who I had known going all the way back to the film Hero, and arranged to buy enough wall/window panels and seats from him to make the two versions. The seats were in pretty rough shape, requiring complete rebuilding and reupholstering. New fabric was custom-printed for the curtains, and the electric department redid all the overhead lighting. One tricky situation faced on the show was shooting the episodes out of order. Since shooting started in late spring, the schedule had to be rearranged with some of the early episodes held until hard winter after the first of the year. This meant that the progression of continuity had to be constantly monitored, and it was often necessary to flip back and forth in time in the evolution of the various sets. The production was scheduled to wrap right before Christmas and come back after the first of the year for two weeks to do a couple days of reshoots and get some of large exteriors that needed to be shot in winter. There was a big period street sequence to dress, and a whole trash dump to be built by piling up hundreds of hay bales to form a base, then dressing the top with old broken furniture and detritus. When the company returned in January, A A. BOEING 737 INTERIOR. SEATS AND SIDE WALLS ARE RESTORED SECTIONS OF A VINTAGE BOEING 737, OVERHEAD BINS FABRICATED. SET PHOTO. B. SINCE THE OLD-STYLE CITY DUMPS NO LONGER EXIST, THIS WAS BUILT ON A BASE OF HAY BALES COVERED WITH DEBRIS AND ANYTHING IN THE SET DEC WAREHOUSE DEEMED NO LONGER USEABLE. SET PHOTO. C. MOTEL ROOM INTERIOR #7. SET PHOTO. D. MINIATURE MOTEL SIGN. ONE OF SIX ILLUMINATED SIGNS, NEON WAS ADDED IN POST DUE TO SCALE. SET PHOTO. PHOTOS BY NIKOLAI LOVEIKIS. B C D