{"id":27494,"date":"2019-01-09T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/?p=27494"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:03:36","slug":"beyond-borders-jack-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/es\/beyond-borders-jack-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Borders | Jack Ryan&#8217;s Location Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p>by Nancy Mills<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27501\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27501\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27501\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/J-Ryan-featured.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/J-Ryan-featured.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/J-Ryan-featured-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/J-Ryan-featured-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jan Thijs\/Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everybody loves Jack Ryan. Since Tom Clancy introduced his CIA analyst-turned-action hero in his 1984 thriller The Hunt for Red October, film audiences have poured into theaters to watch different incarnations of Ryan. Alec Baldwin introduced the character to the screen six years later in Hunt. Then Harrison Ford took over the role in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). Ben Affleck stepped up for The Sum of All Fears (2002), and Chris Pine most recently played him in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s John Krasinski\u2019s turn. The 6\u2019 3\u201d actor takes on the Jack Ryan identity in Amazon Prime Video\u2019s eight-episode series Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan. It could be called The Early Years since Episode One introduces Ryan as a CIA analyst with a little military training and a lot of smarts. Because television doesn\u2019t like its heroes sitting in front of a computer, Ryan is soon out in the field with an instinct for finding trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe varied worldwide locations of Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan were critical to the storytelling,\u201d says Carlton Cuse, co-showrunner, executive producer and co-creator of the television series. \u201cA great location manager is an essential translator of story into image. We were blessed to have five of them on this project. They worked across the globe to deliver the incredible looks necessary to give the show the critical sense of authenticity. Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan is as far from a backlot show as possible. It\u2019s a story about Jack Ryan getting out from behind a desk into the world. So we absolutely had to have our actors do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe treated this series as if it were a really long feature film,\u201d producer Robert F. Phillips adds. \u201cOur goal was to be as real as possible, and for that we needed authentic locations. We wanted people to believe they were watching reality.\u201d To achieve that result, Phillips worked closely with Montreal-based Mich\u00e8le St-Arnaud, LMGI, Moroccan-based Christian McWilliams, LMGI, Washington, D.C.-based Peggy Pridemore, LMGI, and Paris-based Arnaud Kaiser, LMGI. He also spent time with his Los Angeles-based supervising international location scout Lori Balton, LMGI, whom he hired to handle the initial scouting. No wonder he summed up the making of the series in one word: \u201cComplicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the unique challenges that kept the location managers busy!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2022 Each LM worked in a different country. The biggest chunk of filming\u201453 days\u2014took place in Montreal. Morocco followed with three weeks of filming. Paris involved four or five days and Washington, D.C.\/Maryland took four days.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2022 There was no returning to locations, except for a closed hospital in Montreal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2022 None of the location managers knew each other or consulted each other as they went about their jobs. Production designer Ruth Ammon, who took over when the original production designer left during pre-production, was their main point of contact. She and the LMs relied on SetKeeper, an online service, which allowed everyone to put their pictures, documents, schedules, scripts, budgets on one site.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The show had four directors and several crews often working at the same time. If you add gunfights, explosions, drones, language problems, refugee camps and disturbing depictions of Ebola, it seemed a recipe for chaos. However, according to St-Arnaud, \u201cThe series finished on time with the usual reshoots a large show would normally incur and on budget to all the producers\u2019 satisfaction!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ammon took her cue from Cuse, who, she says, \u201ckept using the words \u2018authentic\u2019 and \u2018scope,\u2019 which meant \u2018big vistas.\u2019 I think we got those, but I had no idea what I was getting into when I got the job. It\u2019s a boy movie. I learned about helicopters, tanks and black sites. I never stopped running for six months. I never slept. I was dealing with teams in four different countries all the time. This was the most complicated show I have ever worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communication was an enormous challenge for Ammon. \u201cThe location managers all spoke different languages with different accents,\u201d she says. \u201cThere was Montreal French and Parisian French, plus Arabic, Berber and British English in Morocco and American English in D.C. Connecting with them all at the same time was tough, although in one way, it was nice to have four separate entities, as opposed to one location manager, who had all the information. It kept me on top of things because those people had to get their jobs done.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>TELLING THE STORY<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27502\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27502\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_105_.00_06_05_01.Still010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_105_.00_06_05_01.Still010.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_105_.00_06_05_01.Still010-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_105_.00_06_05_01.Still010-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s start the way the television version of <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> started\u2014with <b>Lori Balton<\/b>,<b> LMGI<\/b> who spent three months researching locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLori has to have one of the greatest jobs,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cShe\u2019s paid to fly around the world and find the most photogenic places\u2014the beautiful places and the desperate places. I don\u2019t think she\u2019s afraid of anything. She\u2019ll go anywhere and meet anybody. She knows how to charm her way in foreign countries and foreign cultures. She blazed the trail for the rest of us.\u201d According to him, Balton was especially effective in Morocco. \u201cMorocco is a huge country, and there are a lot of cities we could have chosen,\u201d he says. \u201cLori understood that the budget wasn\u2019t unlimited. She understood that we needed to find as many locations as close together as possible, and she did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balton, the first location professional invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is amused by Phillips\u2019 take on her job. \u201cWhile I love my job, it\u2019s hard work. Getting on a plane and repacking every day gets old real fast.\u201d she says. \u201cAs soon as you get through Customs, you have to be awake enough to head out and scout. Sometimes with the production designer, and with a production service, I scout and report back. In Paris, Arnaud Kaiser was a great asset. I reached out to him as a result of the LMGI Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27503\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27503\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_107_.00_06_00_02.Still011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_107_.00_06_00_02.Still011.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_107_.00_06_00_02.Still011-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_107_.00_06_00_02.Still011-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Explaining what she was looking for in general, Balton says, \u201cThe producers wanted <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> to feel like the Clancy movies,\u201d she says, \u201cbut it was television. I started in Los Angeles and found desert locations and options for Turkey. I found interesting locations for the military base and for the streets where the mother and kids are being chased. Those scenes could have been shot in L.A.\u201d They weren\u2019t because the producers decided that Montreal was a better home base. \u201cWe had so much going on in Morocco and Paris, that Montreal made traveling easier,\u201d Balton says. \u201cAlso, Montreal is a goldmine of a city for filming. It\u2019s got so many classic European looks. I searched for the Alps locations in Europe and we decided there were locations that could work outside Montreal.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then Balton jumped on a plane to Europe. She spent some time in Rome but the scenario was ultimately, cut from the script. The next stop was Paris. They hunted for the cit\u00e9s (housing projects) of the 93rd arrondissement that Kaiser had cleared. \u201cThis was a challenge,\u201d Kaiser agrees. \u201cYou just can\u2019t go by yourself and scout. Cameras are not welcome in these problem areas, you must find a door opener first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne set of apartment complexes on the edge of Paris seemed perfect, but safety issues took precedence,\u201d Balton adds. \u201cThe complex was incredible\u2014designed for luxury. Developers thought upper middle-class Parisians would live there, but it was too far away from the city center. Then poor people moved in, the pools emptied and the elevators broke. Clichy-sous-Bois was the scene of the death of two youths which sparked nationwide riots in 2005. Ironically, it was too realistic. And dangerous. We made the decision to move on rather than put the crew in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted immigrant neighborhoods,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cWe started off in places that were so authentic that they felt too strong, and scary. We scaled back to more peaceful locations.\u201d \u201cEven scarier than the sketchy banlieues,\u201d jokes Balton, \u201cwas scouting the crazy traffic circle around the Arc de Triomphe with the hope of filming our motorcade passing French icons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Paris, Balton headed for Morocco, which was a favorite filming location for everybody. \u201cMorocco is a wonderful country with wonderful people,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cChristian McWilliams had a great sense of what an American company was looking for. The government and the people in general were extremely helpful, talented and hardworking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balton\u2019s favorite Moroccan location was the kasbah where the chief terrorist lived with his family. \u201cIt was extraordinary to be so welcomed by a culture. You are always invited into their homes for tea before any discussion. I even learned a little Arabic,\u201d she says.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Here is an inside look at what happened in each major location:<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>MONTREAL<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27504\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27504\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27504\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_104_.00_03_33_02.Still007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_104_.00_03_33_02.Still007.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_104_.00_03_33_02.Still007-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_104_.00_03_33_02.Still007-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime Video.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mich\u00e8le St-Arnaud, LMGI<\/strong>: \u201cI was studying to be in the music business as a tour manager. A friend was requested to work on two movies, and she said, \u2018I can\u2019t do both. You have the spirit. Would you go and do it?\u2019 I never stopped. It was an accident. When I started, there wasn\u2019t really an industry in Montreal. It was local artsy movies with 25 crew members. We\u2019d have 40 days filming and sometimes less. We had to learn on the fly. There was no school to teach us. My first big American production was the 1998 <i>Snake Eyes<\/i>, which was shot in Montreal.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>She was nominated for an LMGI Award a few years ago for her work on <i>Brooklyn<\/i>. Her 62 credits include <i>Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Catch Me if You Can, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/i> and <i>The Glass Castle<\/i>. She is currently working on <i>Midway<\/i> with director Roland Emmerich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMich\u00e8le came highly recommended by our production manager,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cShe\u2019s used to working on feature films. She knows what she\u2019s doing, and she knows Montreal well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> HQ was Montreal, where most of the interiors were filmed on stages at MTL Grand\u00e9 Studios. \u201cWe were the international head office,\u201d St-Arnaud says. \u201cThe production design, schedule and planning were all based out of Montreal. It was fun in a way that we learned how other people worked in different countries and introduced different technologies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27505\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27505\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1000269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1000269.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1000269-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1000269-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Mich\u00e8le St-Arnaud\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI never worked with SetKeeper before, but it turned out to be a good way to share our files. The LMs would do their own scouting and report directly to the designer and the directors. I did not supervise the location teams in the other countries per se though. I would send them information about what the requirements were at the beginning. Then they would be on their own. I was supervising the information platform that everyone could access easily from anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did some Parisian sets here, but not the big, wide shots. When you see them driving through Paris, that really is Paris. But when you see them going into the mosque, the mosque interior is here in Montreal. Amer\u2019s apartment and the jihadists\u2019 Parisian hideout\u2014-these interiors were shot in Montreal. We created the Alps area here. The Chamonix chalet, the hideout, the gas station, the highway and the woods were all local locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the scripts were not complete, we scouted options that the writers embraced. We had to know where things were happening, and we had to shoot out the locations as we were going along. We couldn\u2019t hold onto a location for five or six episodes. We shot everything that was required from that location on one occasion. Sometimes two directors came in on the same day. That had its challenges too. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne location that provided flexibility was a vacant hospital. We had Kathy\u2019s lab in there and all of the memorial hospital interior scenes, where they did a cat-and-mouse sequence,\u201d St-Arnaud says. \u201cWe could easily go in and out of that place if we needed to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome days we had double-up units. One episode was shooting at one location and another episode was shooting at another location. There would be split days, and Unit A and Unit B might be on different floors of the hospital with different directors, but they would be sharing the crew\u2014same makeup and same hair. That was a bit challenging. We had that maybe three or four days.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27506\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27506\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27506\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_22115.1.FNL_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_22115.1.FNL_.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_22115.1.FNL_-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_22115.1.FNL_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_22115.1.FNL_-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Myles Aronowitz\/Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Filming action scenes was touchy. \u201cWe had a terrible event here in a Montreal college about 15 years ago where students were shot,\u201d St-Arnaud says. \u201cSince then, Anastasia\u2019s Law was implemented, and you can\u2019t have guns out in public near a school or university. We had to deal with that situation twice. We installed a very closed set so the public could not see anything. Filming at night also helped. That\u2019s how we got permitted by the provincial government. The gunfire itself was not a problem. Today, you can do gunshots that are not too loud. They are emphasized in post-production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge was shooting in the Metro tunnels because those were real Metro tunnels and Metro stations, and we don\u2019t have any that are really vacant, so you have to work around very limited availability.\u201d The Montreal Metro was standing in for the DC Metro because filming in the actual DC Metro was too complicated, according to LM Pridemore. \u201cThe DC Metro is one of the most restrictive locations in the city, other than the CIA,\u201d she says. \u201cThe Metro has very, very limited work hours, and you\u2019re not allowed to do anything that\u2019s illegal in real life. Characters can\u2019t run or jump over turnstiles or push people around or do anything of a criminal nature. Someone is watching you every minute. They don\u2019t leave you alone. And because they eliminated the Film Office for the Metro, the person who hosts you has three other jobs and is not always available to be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hero location was at McGill University,\u201d St-Arnaud says. \u201cIt was very busy, but they really worked hard to accommodate us. The university stood in for the exterior of the hospital and for Cathy Mueller\u2019s father\u2019s office (a scene cut from the final edit.)\u201d Mueller, played by Abbie Cornish, is an infectious disease doctor and Ryan\u2019s romantic interest.<\/p>\n<p>Describing one of her more stressful locations, St-Arnaud says, \u201cWhen they\u2019re driving toward the hospital going after the ambulance, that location involved 20 blocks of downtown at night. We had to control all the side streets. We worked with the city for one month in advance and had great police support and the motorcade brigade to help block intersections, one after the other. It was a double-up day. While they were filming elsewhere, we had to take care of that huge shoot simultaneously. It was a challenging night. We also filmed with planes, but they were in an airport environment. The city of Montreal really rolled out the red carpet for <i>Jack Ryan<\/i>. That made my job easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eighth episode might have been the most difficult. \u201cWe had a lot of explosions, stunts and chases,\u201d St-Arnaud says. \u201cThe student pizzeria explosion was challenging for spfx. The restaurant and neighborhood were not used to filming and needed to be reassured at every step. The (Nevada) casino scene, which we shot in Montreal, involved the provincial government-owned society, Loto-Qu\u00e9bec, which manages three casinos and lottery here in Qu\u00e9bec. It was the first time they had to deal with such a big production. We used a lot of their poker and roulette tables with their staff behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our studio sets involved things you see in Morocco for Syria and Lebanon\u2014the interiors of the houses and cells where the hostages are kept. Montreal subbed for Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Washington and Nevada (where the drone facility and Air Force base are located). All of the sets were designed in Montreal, even those shot in Morocco, where some sets were built. In the end, it was quite a challenge to deal with five directors and multiple designers trying to accommodate so many visions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>THE MONTREAL LOCATION TEAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><i>Location Manager:<\/i><i> <\/i>Mich\u00e8le St-Arnaud, LMGI<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><i>Key Assistant Location Manager:<\/i> Jos\u00e9e Francis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><i>ALM\/Scouts:<\/i><i> <\/i>Kim Beaudoin, Brigitte Renaud,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Patrick Laurendeau, A\u00efcha Ra\u00efhani,\u00a0Maryse Desrosiers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><i>On-set location person:<\/i><i> <\/i>Bruno Lemire\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>WASHINGTON, D.C., &amp; MARYLAND<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27508\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27508\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27508\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_36934.1.FNL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_36934.1.FNL-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_36934.1.FNL-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_36934.1.FNL-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_101_36934.1.FNL-1-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Peggy Pridemore, LMGI<\/b>, who lives near Washington, D.C., originally wanted to be an actress. She soon changed her mind and became a location assistant instead on <i>Broadcast News<\/i> in 1987. Two years later, she moved up to location manager. Her 44 LM credits include <i>JFK, The Firm, Forrest Gump, Clear and Present Danger, The American President, Minority Report, Wedding Crashers, Argo, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian <\/i>and <i>Jason Bourne<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27509\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27509\" class=\"wp-image-27509\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-Peggy-Pridemore-Nov-18-301x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-Peggy-Pridemore-Nov-18-301x400.jpg 301w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-Peggy-Pridemore-Nov-18-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-Peggy-Pridemore-Nov-18-774x1030.jpg 774w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6-Peggy-Pridemore-Nov-18.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Courtesy of Peggy Pridemore\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeggy is the location manager I thought was most wizard-like,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cShe certainly seemed dialed in. She was really good making sure everyone knew the rules to filming in sensitive locations and everyone obeyed them. She even knew which side of the street you could walk down when filming near the monuments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the late asks was a mansion on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. I thought we\u2019d never find one, especially inside the Zone with a water approach because of the helicopter\u2019s arrival. She kept sending photos until she found one that was picture perfect. It had a backyard and a view of the Chesapeake Bay that was gorgeous. And it was near an airport, where we could base the helicopter. It was perfect and such a call to adventure. \u2018Dr. Ryan! Dr. Ryan. You\u2019ve got to come with us!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding an appropriate mansion on the water (for a character that is one of the wealthiest people in America) that would let us land a Sikorsky helicopter on their lawn was my biggest challenge,\u201d Pridemore agrees. \u201cIt took me a month, but we ended up using a house that had been filmed before, which is rare in our area\u2014that a homeowner would allow a big movie company to come in more than once. We also had to have a garden party. It was a little bit delicate because he was about ready to put the house on the market.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All was well until the weather intruded. \u201cIt rained on our first day of the shoot, so the garden party had to be postponed,\u201d Pridemore remembers. \u201cWe went back to film the next day, and everything was sopping wet, and we did damage the lawn, but we repaired it so after we wrapped, it was as if we had never been there at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pridemore says her house search took her \u201call over the Chesapeake Bay, on both sides of the Bay. The Western Shore is only one hour from D.C., but a lot of the eastern part is at least two hours and usually three or four hours from D.C. The two sides of the Bay look very different. I tried just knocking on doors, but that didn\u2019t work. Then I went through the Economic Development and Tourism Commission, Talbot County, Maryland. Cassandra Vanhouser was so helpful. Going to all these mansions right on the water was fun. I was driving all over and meeting all these interesting people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also had to get clearance for Krasinski to exercise on the Potomac River. \u201cHaving a major actor row on camera is very tricky,\u201d she says. \u201cIt requires a special kind of balance to row and keep the boat afloat at the same time. The river is easy to get permission to film on. The Washington, D.C., government is easy to get permits from. We have to show you\u2019ve completed safety measures. You have to hire the Washington DC Metropolitan Harbor Patrol and bring a certified lifeguard with you, and you have to have boats that are stable. We did have a marine coordinator to provide all those different things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuth and I worked via emails and SmugMug. When filming in D.C., we often work more with the producer, director and production manager than the designer. I believe one reason for this is because I mostly work on projects that film exteriors, and the monuments require very little design work!\u201d The Washington crew filmed for less than a week, but it took Pridemore six months to get everything set up. Pridemore says, \u201cI had filmed at the CIA previously for <i>Argo<\/i> and <i>Allegiance<\/i>. I\u2019m very proud the CIA would allow us to come back and film <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i>. They know Jack Ryan. He is probably the most famous CIA agent there is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Pridemore nailed down the mansion, she then looked for other locations nearby to make their day. \u201cWe doubled Easton, Maryland, for Georgetown,\u201d she says. \u201cWe got the city to almost close down for us. We did a little stunt with John Krasinski at a main intersection of the town. He\u2019s riding his bike to work, and he almost gets hit by a car. The driver turns out to be his new boss (Wendell Pierce).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>THE WASHINGTON, D.C.\/<\/b><b>MARYLAND LOCATION TEAM:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><i>Location Manager:<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>Peggy Pridemore, LMGI<br \/>\n<b><i>Key Assistant Location Manager:<\/i><\/b> Alexander Vogan<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b><i>ALM:<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>Christopher Carey<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b><i>Key Location Assistant:<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>Sarah Laine Smith<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b>PARIS<\/b><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27510\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27510\" class=\"wp-image-27510 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3259-copie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3259-copie.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3259-copie-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3259-copie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3259-copie-773x1030.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Arnaud Kaiser\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Arnaud Kaiser, LMGI<\/b>: \u201cI was introduced to a location manager in 2002, at the age of 22, to work as a trainee on <i>The Dreamers<\/i>, a movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. At that time, I had a very partial and distorted vision of the job. This movie, which was a period film that took place during the riots of May 1968, allowed me to discover all the preparatory work beforehand to make the shoot possible. I met an exceptional location manager who then became my mentor. I quickly had fun trying to find \u2018the place\u2019 that the director had in mind or to surprise him with suggestions of places he had not thought of.\u201d Kaiser\u2019s credits include <i>Inception, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Now You See Me, Edge of Tomorrow, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay &#8211; Parts 1 <\/i>&amp;<i> 2<\/i> and <i>Dunkirk<\/i>. He recently completed <i>Robin Hood<\/i>. He won the 2018 LMGI Outstanding Achievement Award for Outstanding Locations in a Period Film for his work on <i>Dunkirk<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27513\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27513\" class=\"wp-image-27513\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/arnaud-kaiser-1-255x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/arnaud-kaiser-1-255x400.jpg 255w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/arnaud-kaiser-1-657x1030.jpg 657w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/arnaud-kaiser-1.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Craig T. Mathew and Greg Grudt\/Mathew Imaging<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe most challenging part of <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> was to prepare a movie talking about terrorism and reproduce facts quite similar to what really happened in France shortly before and which were still fresh in people\u00b4s minds,\u201d Kaiser says. He and his team scouted locations for about three months. Shooting in Paris lasted four days and involved two directors. Then came a fifth day of shooting in the Alps. \u201cThe snow was pretty much melted as it was the end of the winter period,\u201d he said, \u201cso this part was finally re-scouted and shot during the following winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne difficult location to find was the church in which we had to shoot a terrorist attack. We had many refusals, but we finally met a very open-minded priest, who had also been a journalist in the past. He is very involved against censorship in art and culture.\u201d The church, known as the Church of Saint-Merri, is located on the Right Bank of Paris. \u201cGetting permission from the church took some effort,\u201d Ammon says. \u201cThe French team worked very diligently to find a church that would be willing. The content was very sensitive, especially in a city that suffered. It was undergoing some construction at the time, so we had to build a deck over the floor to hide the work. It was an amazing location. I also like the view from Belleville. People were separated and looking down at the wealth and glory of Paris. I think Lori found that location. She deserves credit for a lot of the locations.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27511\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27511\" class=\"wp-image-27511 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1130721-copie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1130721-copie.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1130721-copie-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1130721-copie-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Arnaud Kaiser\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Closing a street in Paris is not so easy. \u201cParis is an old city,\u201d Kaiser says, \u201cand the layout of the streets in some neighborhoods looks like a maze with mainly one-way streets. When you ask for a street closure, you have to bring to the local authority all the solutions to allow emergency vehicles and people who live in the surrounding streets to enable them to access and leave the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ammon worked closely with Kaiser. \u201cHe found the locations,\u201d she says. \u201cWe were trying to find that look that\u2019s iconic for Americans and is also feasible. Arnaud would take us to an area, and we\u2019d walk around until we found the right frames. The French producer also helped find locations. He was very patient. We\u2019d come in and demand things. At the time, Paris was under attack. People were being shot and blown up, and here we were shooting people and blowing things up. We were throwing bits and pieces all over the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Kaiser, filming <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> when Paris was under siege didn\u2019t really cause problems. \u201cActually, the only restrictions we had were not having gun sounds and also being careful with extras dressed in police uniforms as the real police officers were targets. So we had to find holding areas as close as possible to the sets to hide these extras between the takes. We had to do a lot of field work. It is important to spend time on locations to meet people living or working in the neighborhood and talk with them. Shop owners or building caretakers are very often sources of very valuable information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second important point concerns providing information to residents in order to give them the general idea of what is going to happen. The communication beforehand can often disarm problems that might have occurred on the day of shooting. However, I was also in contact with the police and firefighters to warn them of calls from people who might have not received the information. The street debris had to be managed in a very military way with a very timed schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>THE FRENCH LOCATION TEAM:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Location Manager:<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>Arnaud Kaiser, LMGI<br \/>\n<b><i>Assistant Location Managers:<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>Alphonse Huynh,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Augustin Werkoff<br \/>\n<b><i>Location PAs:<\/i><\/b> Ga\u00eblle Risch, Martin Pype,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Laura Bercholz, Kija King, Emilien Obert<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b>MOROCCO<\/b><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27514\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27514\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_106_32608.1-h.FNL_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_106_32608.1-h.FNL_.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_106_32608.1-h.FNL_-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JR_106_32608.1-h.FNL_-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jan Thijs\/Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Christian McWilliams, LMGI<\/b> has lived and worked in Morocco for 16 years, after relocating from London. He started his film career as a runner and became a location assistant on <i>Howard\u2019s End<\/i> in 1992. He moved up to LM on <i>The Remains of the Day<\/i> a year later. \u201cI speak French, and I know about 200 words in Arabic,\u201d he says. \u201cIt gets me by. I can order a beer.\u201d Recently, he has worked on such projects as <i>Syriana, Babel, Mamma Mia!, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The A-Team, World War Z<\/i> and two <i>Mission: Impossible <\/i>movies. He is currently working on <i>John Wick 3: Parabellum<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Balton lined up Christian in Morocco at the suggestion of LM Mike Meehan, LMGI. Phillips says, \u201cWhen I met Christian in Morocco, we started up a conversation. He had a unique knowledge, so I hired him. All the Moroccan location people were excellent. Basically in Morocco if you can find it, somebody will be able to find someone to eventually say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27515\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27515\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27515\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_9616-296x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_9616-296x400.jpg 296w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_9616-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_9616-763x1030.jpg 763w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_9616.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Christian McWilliams\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy most difficult location to find was a place in Morocco that looked like a market in Yemen, where one of the characters gets kidnapped,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cThe capital of Yemen, Sana\u2019a, looks very particular. There\u2019s nothing like it in the world. In the end, it was a combination of special effects, CGI and a very poor little district in Marrakech that we filled with extras in Yemeni costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning Morocco into six Middle Eastern countries proved to be an enormous challenge for McWilliams and his team. He describes the countries and their key locations:<\/p>\n<p><b>Yemen:<\/b> The local market in Sana\u2019a and the Gulf of Aden<\/p>\n<p><b>Turkey:<\/b> Streets in Istanbul and an airport in Eastern territories, a beach, a safe house and country roads with olive groves<\/p>\n<p><b>Jordan:<\/b> Streets and airport lobby<\/p>\n<p><b>Lebanon:<\/b> The opening sequence in the Beqaa Valley, where two boys are playing and their home is targeted by a missile; a lake and a green valley<\/p>\n<p><b>Afghanistan: <\/b>Ruins of a village and a helicopter crash in a forest<\/p>\n<p><b>Syria:<\/b> A village scene and desert, an escape across a border and a terrorist kasbah<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were scouting for those countries, we came across amazing stuff,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cWe had a big team, sometimes as many as 17, and whenever a new person came onboard, he\u2019d know something we didn\u2019t know.\u201d <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> features sweeping desert vistas, often with a tiny car in one corner of the shot. \u201cThose locations were easy,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cWe have lots of lovely deserts here. One outside Marrakech is where we did (Oliver Stone\u2019s) <i>Alexander<\/i> in 2004. There\u2019s also the dunes in Erfoud at the edge of the Sahara, where we do a lot of filming, often with drone and helicopter shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan,<\/i> we did two months\u2019 preparation and then three weeks of shooting with two full units, including four directors and four producers. We had a lovely production designer, Ruth Ammon, who gave us our brief.\u201d McWilliams and Ammon spent a lot of time together. \u201cInitially, Lori Balton scouted with a designer who left the project,\u201d he says. \u201cThen Lori got busy and eventually recommended me. I\u2019m the only British guy out here who does scouting. The important locations we found for Ruth were Turkish streets, countryside, beaches and a Yemen market,\u201d he says. The Gulf of Aden (which includes the scene with blue boats) was actually shot in the port of Essaouira.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Because <i>Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/i> is an action thriller, it\u2019s teeming with knives, deadly viruses and guns. Fortunately, plot lines involving gunfire pose no problems in Morocco. \u201cIt\u2019s all been done here before,\u201d McWilliams says. (Hundreds of films and TV series have shot in this North African country, including Hitchcock\u2019s <i>The Man Who Knew Too Much, Lawrence of Arabia, Homeland <\/i>and <i>American Sniper<\/i>.) \u201cWith guns you have to let the locality know what\u2019s going on. Morocco issues a lot of permits. It\u2019s a long process, but it\u2019s very film-friendly. There\u2019s a system in place where you\u2019re given a permit from a government office called the CCM, and you show it to the local mayor, and he distributes it to the local officials. You\u2019ve got to go through the correct channels. You have to respect the local ways and traditions that are not at all like the L.A. film offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, there are always unexpected dangers. \u201cI\u2019m very aware of the risks that are involved,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cWe were going to have an entire crew up on the roof of a kasbah outside Marrakech that was built in the 1800s. It\u2019s called Oumnast, and we used it as a Syrian desert setting. We did a Syrian village scene and an interior in the same village and blew up a moped.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another location that brought safety issues to mind was a beach filled with refugees trying to get into boats. \u201cWe were putting a lot of extras who supposedly could swim into boats and then pulling them out into the water,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cWe had marine guides and medics on standby. You always worry, especially with TV, because everything is in such a rush. My job is to point out the obvious. In TV, they listen. In movies they sometimes don\u2019t.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When McWilliams needed a location for a refugee camp on the Turkish border, he found one on the outskirts of Marrakech. \u201cThe art department ordered several hundred UNHCR tents from a company in Spain that flies them out to Africa when there\u2019s a famine or natural disaster,\u201d he says. \u201cAll the signage was in Turkish. It was a big location for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco has lots of different looks and architecture,\u201d Ammon says. \u201cYou go there and all you do is work. I spent so much time in a car, driving from location to location. When I started filmmaking, the idea was that you never stopped walking until you found an angle. Now it seems like people drive up in their car, get out, say, \u2018Here it is. Let\u2019s go.\u2019 We\u2019re not walking around with our cameras. I keep walking. You\u2019ll often find a better angle if you walk three feet in the other direction.\u201d One of the things Ammon loves about Morocco \u201cis that they know big films,\u201d she says. \u201cThey aim high. They weren\u2019t going to show us something small. Christian and I pitched the whole beach scene in Turkey. The site was very empty. Three women come down this narrow gap to the sea and see items of clothing and debris\u2014the buildup of human debris after people had come so far. Carlton was looking for a wide vista to see these women walking alone, and Christian and I found it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Ammon\u2019s favorite locations was the refugee camp. \u201cChristian took me there,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a place that started to develop and then stopped. There were huge areas of flat earth. They had put in street lamps, and there were all these roads around it. It was meant to be the border of Turkey and Syria. It was really important to me to have real houses in the background. In so many of these camps, they build a life outside them. The touching of these two lives was very important.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ammon found the Turkish brothel. \u201cIt was an old restaurant that was shut down in Morocco,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI bugged Christian, \u2018You\u2019ve got to get me in that building!\u2019 Christian is quite a talker, and that\u2019s what you need. He\u2019s a great connector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><b>THE MOROCCO LOCATION TEAM:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Supervising Location Manager:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>Christian McWilliams, LMGI<br \/>\n<b><i>Location Manager:<\/i><\/b> Toufiq Abouobayd<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b><i>Location Coordinators:<\/i><\/b> Joaod Charjai,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Mohamed Chrouate, Samir Gougas,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Mustapha Adidou, Mustapha Bediar,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Abdelcader Chaoui<br \/>\n<b><i>Location Assistant:<\/i><\/b> Hicham Moukhliss<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b>MICHAEL BAY<\/b><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_27517\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27517\" src=\"http:\/\/home\/locatis4\/public_html\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_103_.00_46_22_21.Still070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_103_.00_46_22_21.Still070.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_103_.00_46_22_21.Still070-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/locationmanagers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JKRY_103_.00_46_22_21.Still070-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Amazon Prime Video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMichael Bay is one of the executive producers,\u201d producer Robert F. Phillips says. \u201cHe had an influence on the series, but it wasn\u2019t on a day-to-day basis. His influence was by reputation and by \u2018let\u2019s make this aspirationally synchronous to a Michael Bay project when it comes to the action and the scope,\u2019 which of course, you always want for a Tom Clancy-Jack Ryan project. For instance, with the battle scenes, we\u2019d always have in mind, \u2018Michael Bay is going to be looking at this, and it better look like a Michael Bay action shoot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bay brought in Harry Humphries, a former U.S. Navy Seal, and his people to consult on scenes involving the military. \u201cHarry is a decorated war hero from the Vietnam War,\u201d Phillips says. \u201cHe\u2019s been running ops for film companies for 40+ years and has a bunch of veterans who work for him or he can reach out to. 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