Taking Paddington Home
Paddington in Peru sees Paddington go back to his homeland to reunite with his Aunt Lucy, getting embroiled in a treasure hunt along the way.
“It was the decision of [Paddington and Paddington 2 director and writer] Paul King, Simon Farnaby, and Mark Burton [a screenwriter who provided additional material for Paddington 2], and they liked the idea of a circular feeling to the story, with Paddington returning to the origins established in the first film,” Wilson says. “We are continuing the themes of home and being an immigrant and coming back to where you are officially from and how you feel when you get there.”
To research the film, Wilson spent two months traveling around South America, looking at locations while the script was being developed. At the same time, the budget for the film was being planned out, and Wilson quickly realized that a bit of creativity would be necessary.
“We worked out we just couldn’t economically take the main unit and the actors to Peru,” Wilson recalls. “What we could do was take a second unit to Peru and shoot a lot of environments, especially because it would be easier to put [digital character] Paddington into those backdrops, but for the rest of the cast, it was more of a technical challenge.”
After precisely plotting out the story and shooting the necessary locations in South America, the human cast was shot on sets and exterior locations in the UK, carefully matched to the on-location footage by visual effects house Framestore.
“I think it’s in the tradition of British films shot in the UK like Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, which was shot on very art-directed stages in the UK, and then the Himalayas were put in using matte paintings afterward. It has this wonderful stylized feel. With our film, there wasn’t any other way of doing it budgetarily, so we embraced it stylistically.”
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Publish date : 2024-12-04 01:59:00
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