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amount of time required to shoot the sequence would make closing one impossible even if it existed. One day while scouting Downtown with the showrunners I pitched the idea of transposing the whole sequence to a sewer. In a sewer, we could play up the claustrophobia of the situation and the psychological horror of being trapped underground in water with rats and bodies, and it was something we might actually have a chance of creating. Everyone bought the idea, now I just had to figure out how to pull it off. I went back to the Art Department and we designed and visualized a set that could have as many pitfalls as we chose and ood as deep as we wanted. Lindsay Ledohowski built a detailed 3D model and we ew the team around the set virtually to get a buy off. Construction set about building one hundred eighty feet of sewer tunnels and culverts while special effects collaborated on a large water tank built around one section, where Larry could be forced to face his nightmares and Flagg could torment him. And did I mentions rats? Mother Abigail's House Sometimes what seems like the simplest set can actually be one of the most challenging. The story needed a house in Boulder for Mother Abigail, something that felt like a memory of grandmother's house, a simple suburban home on a quiet street. The problem was, scheduling would force the exteriors and interiors to be shot at the same time, they couldn't be separated with an interior on stage as one might normally. And to complicate matters even further, this house needed to be blown up! Real estate is rather expensive in Vancouver and the production wasn't going to find a house that would let a film crew set massive pyro charges at the end of the shoot. So we did the only thing we could, we built it all from scratch; interior, exterior, sidewalks, lawns and trees. We built it all in six weeks. I still am blown away that we managed to pull it off. The neighbors wondered if they could buy the house when we were finished. Probably not a good idea considering the foundations put in! D E F