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LMGI COMPASS
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degree of responsibility,
since it depends on our
initial judgment whether that
great project is going to be
developed in your country or
not.
A location manager is
nobody without his or
her team. The Location
Department technically and
humanely executes the work
to be done. Personally, I am
lucky to count on a great
team, starting with Irene,
my coordinator and life
partner, my brothers and
friends like Marc, Enrique,
Mateo, Lucas, Alberto,
Moises, Pedro and many
others. We are a great family
that is sometimes essential
to a project's success. A
clear example of this was
Terminator: Dark Fate
where for certain reasons a
hostile environment within
the production became a
nightmare—something to
forget and try to learn from
it. The many problems were
only overcome by the unity
of the department and the
invaluable help from Simon
Crook/LMGI.
Terminator also
demonstrated how
sometimes our initial work
is a decisive element in the
ultimate choice of a film's
location base, with the
consequent contribution
of wealth and labor in
that region. From the first
moment, the key location in
LMGI Awards with Irene Marique, one of the happiest days in my life.
The Málaga Film Festival with my two location manager brothers.
Spain was a highway for a car
chase, with five kilometers
of road available for two
months. After several failed
attempts, the production
was ready to look elsewhere.
When at the last moment
after exhaustive research, I
found a stretch of highway
on the way to an airport in
the Murcia region in eastern
Spain that had not yet been
opened. Thanks to the
collaboration of the local
authorities, we successfully
filmed in Spain, employing a
crew of more than 1,000.
The dramatic rise in the
television production for the
multitude of digital platforms
has drastically changed
location work. Shooting
much more content in less
time with a budget that is
generally tighter forces us to
have to find more locations
in a much smaller geographic
space. This was the case
in the last two seasons of
The Crown. We reimagined
Spain to become more
than 10 countries and very
different geographic regions
of the world. We shot the
Director Tim Miller and Simon Crook/LMGI discuss the upcoming scene
in Terminator: Dark Fate.
The highway in Terminator: Dark Fate.
