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the very start, I had a very good production team luckily, and all
the rest of the team was wonderful."
Lathrop says Liston was integral to making it all come together.
"The logistics of doing a show this big are immense, and for
nobody more immense than Naomi and her location team, and
they were simply amazing. I could always lean on Naomi to ask
her logistics, and honestly, we wouldn't have been able to do any
of this without her."
"Naomi was the perfect location manager for this movie," agrees
Boyd. "She's not afraid to go to locations that no one had ever
filmed before, because they were too hard to access. She was
able to meet this creative vision that the director wanted and find
these beautiful, fantastic locations but then she made them work
logistically."
Thanks in part to Liston's work, The Northman became one of
the first major films to shoot during the pandemic—and despite
the brutal production conditions, it's widely considered to be
the most accurate Viking film ever made. Tasked with finding and
managing a slate of grueling locations to meet an exacting creative
goal—in wretched weather during a global pandemic—she
responded by slipping on her galoshes and wading into the fray.
Liston herself is modest about literally moving the earth to create
a film that broke creative ground on so many levels. "It was great
fun, and it looked incredible! It was a fantastic opportunity—and
they don't come along that often."
Liston's latest project as supervising location manager
showcases a sunny, colorful Northern Ireland in the upcoming film
reboot of the popular RPG franchise, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor
Among Thieves, starring Regé-Jean Page, Chris Pine and Michelle
THE NORTHMAN
LOCATION DEPARTMENT:
Naomi Liston/LMGI - SLM
Gordon Wycherley - LM
Damian McDonald - ALM
Kieran Burns - ALM
John Vaughan - ALM
Shona McGuigan - Location Coordinator
Paul Burns - Location Assistant
Michael Moore - Location Assistant
Louise Kealey - Location Assistant
Gavin Kelly - Unit Manager: Floor
Thor Kjartansson - SLM: Iceland Unit
The Northman. Photo by Aidan Monaghan/© 2022 Focus Features, LLC
Rodriguez. Liston embraced the brighter medieval landscapes
of the fantasy epic, grounding its high-flying story in Northern
Ireland's historic beauty. "It was so nice to go onto something like
Dungeons & Dragons, which is all happy, all pretty, everything's
got to be flowery, so you'll see Northern Ireland in a really lovely
light." Watch for breathtaking castles, beaches and technicolor-
green estates, including Carrickfergus Castle and the hidden
coastal village of Galboly. Written and directed by John Francis
Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the movie also features scenes in
Iceland and at England's Alnwick Castle, aka Hogwarts in the first
two Harry Potter films. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
is out March 3, 2023.
