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P E R S P E C T I V E | N OV E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 6 93 by Jeannine Oppewall, Production Designer WAITING FOR WARREN © Twentieth Century Fox, photograph by François Duhamel It isn't often that a film, from scouting to release, will take over five years of a designer's life. I believe I started The Untitled Warren Beatty Project in 2011, and it is now 2016. Of course, the years I spent associated with the project, now aptly titled Rules Don't Apply, were nothing compared with the time Warren Beatty spent giving birth to it. That took over 45 years—perhaps one of the longest gestation periods in film history. Main image: Warren Beatty has been working for 45 years to turn his Howard Hughes story into RULES DON'T APPLY. Above, top to bottom: The lobby of the hospital, on stage at Sunset Gower Studios. The hall of the Desert Inn, revamped from the hospital. The hallway of the Acapulco hotel set, revamped in turn from the Desert Inn set.