To accommodate the script, Crank built the office and connecting hallway on a soundstage, working with Johnson to line up the characters’ movements in the script with the actual layout of the houses and sets used for shooting. The script for “Knives Out” required several characters to sneak in and out of the house and up to Harlan’s inner sanctum, a cozy red study with a low, curved ceiling that allows for intimate conversations between Harlan and his nurse Marta, played by Ana De Armas. The moment we walked into the mansion we knew right away that it had the personality we needed.”īut neither the Ames Mansion nor the gothic revival could provide the floor plan needed for the most important room in Johnson’s script: Harlan’s office. “The general rule was that both the inside and outside of the house needed to look like the sort of house that Harlan would describe in one of his mysteries. “There wasn’t a specific kind of architecture that Rian was looking for,” Crank told TheWrap. The Ames Mansion, previously seen in Martin Scorsese’s 2010 thriller “Shutter Island,” was used in “Knives Out” to shoot the tense fights Harlan would have with his money-grubbing family, and the intense questioning that private eye Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) would put that same family through after Harlan’s death.Īlso Read: 'Knives Out' Director Rian Johnson on Which of His Stars Was Hardest to Cast The exterior of the house was a gothic revival mansion built in 1890 and located just outside of Boston, but the interior scenes were filmed at the Ames Mansion, a 20-room historic site located at Massachusetts’ Borderland State Park. When Crank and his team got started, director Rian Johnson and his location team had already found a pair of mansions that would serve as the domain of Harlan Thrombey, the multi-millionaire mystery novelist portrayed by Christopher Plummer, whose bloody demise sets the events of “Knives Out” into motion.
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While the production design of every movie ever made faces numerous complications, those complications become even more, well, complex when it comes to a murder mystery like “Knives Out.” Production designer David Crank, for instance, had to turn three shooting locations into a single mansion that serves as the film’s bloody crime scene.
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