Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1438629
T O M M E Y E R recently completed principal photography on the Warner Bros./DC & New Line tentpole, Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson due in theatres July 2022. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra for whom he designed the feature Orphans. Tom also designed the robot boxing world of Real Steel. Developing the lead robot "Atom" to play opposite Hugh Jackman began Tom's career of creating relatable lead CG characters "living" in a real human world. Other credits include HBO's PU-239 which won the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design, We Are Marshall, Spectral, Jonah Hex, Papillon, Blue Crush and Welcome to Collinwood. rior to film, he worked in theatre, including Washington DC Shakespeare Theatre Folger, three seasons as resident design associate at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a national tour for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange debuting at the Kennedy Center. 1 6 P E R S P E C T I V E | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 1 C O N T R I B U T O R S R E N É E H O S S - J O H N S O N moved from New Jersey to Southern California with her family when she was four, and watched her mother create colorful gardens in their backyard and paint beautiful still-life pictures. Her high school drama teacher noticed that Renée loved to draw and asked her to design her first set for an upcoming school play, and that was just the beginning. Work with a local theater group led to several positions at community and regional theaters. She attended the acific onseratory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria and then Cal Arts, which led to a long period of nurturing her talents at Disney Imagineering. At Disney, Renée worked on projects for EPCOT Center, Tokyo Disneyland and the New Fantasyland at Disneyland in Anaheim. fter leaing isney, she filled in as an ssistant rt Director at NBC Television on various game shows and soap operas, until Production Designer Richard Stiles hired her to help full time on Wheel of Fortune. Renée has been with Wheel for nearly thirty-seven years and took over as the Production Designer when Richard retired in July of 2002. She loes to design scenery and finds eery day to be an adventure that brings exciting new challenges to sole. ene has designed awardwinning oats for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade since 1989 and in her free time, like her mother, loves to create magical gardens for everyone to enjoy. A R T H U R M A X is an American Production Designer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards: once each for his Production Design work on Gladiator, American Gangster and The Martian. In addition to his Oscar nominations, Max won several other honors for his roduction esign on the film, including the BAFTA, the National Board of Review prize and the Broadcast Film Critics honor. He also collected two Excellence in Production Design Awards from the rt irectors uild, the first for Gladiator and the second for The Martian. He was previously nominated for Black Hawk Down, Robin Hood, American Gangster, Prometheus and Panic Room. Max also worked on All the Money in the World, Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Counselor, Kingdom of Heaven and Body of Lies. Seven, The Last Vermeer and The Last Duel. Arthur recently wrapped on House of Gucci and can currently be found working on Kitbag, which will be his fifteenth proect with director Ridley Scott. The native New Yorker began his career as a stage lighting designer in the music industry following graduation from New York University in the late 1960s. Those assignments included work at Bill Graham's famous music venue, The Fillmore East, in New York's East Village, and the historic Woodstock Festival of 1969 where he operated a spotlight for a rock lighting and stage design company during the Woodstock festival in 1969. He was Pink Floyd's lighting designer during the band's tours in the US and around the world in the early 1970s. After studying architecture in England (earning degrees in the early 1980s from the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art), Max went on to do several architectural design projects in London including an award-winning lighting design for the stage of St. John's Concert Hall, a former 18th century church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London.