Two new pieces of
concept art from the
Green Lantern live-action movie recently surfaced and now
SyFy has tracked down Academy Award-winning production designer
Grant Major (
Lord of the Rings), to find out where he came up with the ideas that inspired the designs for the main city of Oa and the graveyard of fallen Green Lanterns:
"Oa, of course, is at the center of the Universe, and is also an extremely old place. It's been around since not too long after the Big Bang, I assume. And with its function as a sort of U.N.-cum-military-compound in the middle of space, you'd imagine that with 3,600 different sectors, it must have a lot of influence on a lot of different cultures and time. So what I've tried to do is to introduce a plethora of different types of architectural styles and a feeling that, over the millennia, that it's just been building on and building on [itself], and there's just this huge history of culture that's been there."
"I looked to the comics, of course [for design concepts for Oa]. I also wanted to give it a sort of broader aspect. I really wanted to make it the sort of place where, just from the glimpse that we have of it, that you'd really want to go back there and have a really big look around, and in the interest of the film, maybe give birth to subsequent films." Green Lantern opens June 17, 2011!
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