#hannah beachler

[namorthesubmariner]

The set build. Over 300 hand carved, stalagmites and stalactites. The entire set was carved. The Feathered Serpent.

Art Director: Jason Clark

This set inspired by the Ceiba tree, sacred tree of life and the three realms, which Namor occupied all, like Chaac guardian of the underworld. The story of Chaac is intricate, a beneficent entity related to agriculture production and to life.

As much love and thought to Talokan as to Wakanda, this...is just the beginning of this new world.

Namor's throne seat. A Magalodon jaw with Jade Teeth. The Hieroglyph carved in the bone reads, "This Jade Tooth Bites." I thought it was charming and dangerous like Namor. The piece was 12 feet tall by 10 feet wide. It was BIG!

The feathered serpent. From El templo, the Temple of Kukulcán. aka El Castillo, Chichen Itza. The temple has 91 steps on each side and including the platform is 365. Master Engineers, it would be pre-columbian Maya.

We wanted to have the Feathered serpents presence in Namor's place of peace and remembrance. You would not have seen it in the film but it was important for me that its presence was felt.

My motto, as little CGI as possible. I fought and pushed to build build build! Wherever possible, it's a set.

- Hannah Beachler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Production Designer, Academy Award Winner

#black panther: wakanda forever #behind the scenes #mcu namor #photography #set design #hannah beachler #talokan

[namor-the-submariner-dot-net]

Monday MCU

by graphic artist Kelsey Brennan

Namor's cenote mural of the establishment of Talokan

by Tim Croshaw

Visitor's quarters cenote, plans and elevations.

by Tim Croshaw

Namor's cenote plan

by Peter Rubin

Namor's throne room backdrop, digital model.

"Memory as form is in essence the translation of emotions. Talokan is Namor’s memorial of the world he once knew at the end of its reign. The greatness he knew of Maya was from oral stories and written records and manuscripts such as the Codices and the Popol Vuh. Through Namor’s quest in memorializing Maya, the originality of Talokan became material. The architecture of Talokan is the physicality of memory, which lies in the gestures the structures adopted, while also managing the provocation of thought about the life and purpose of the structure itself, and care over the architectural spectacle. Spaces appear detached from both structural soundness and reality. Beyond merely shape and color, this world had to embrace the lack of a sense of direction and gravity. It encapsulated the illusion of suspension, a connection to environment, contemplation over stability and symmetry. For some, the more separated in time you are from a memory, the more subjective it becomes, and so the creative team followed this in form and structure." -- Hannah Beachler

This is all from a great article by the art director for Wakanda Forever, Hannah Beachler, for PERSPECTIVE The Journal of the Art Director's Guild.

Source

#Namor #Sub-Mariner #MCU Namor #Monday #Monday MCU #Talokan #Wakanda Forever #Hannah Beachler #Blueprints #Article #Behind the Scenes #Tim Croshaw #Peter Rubin #Kelsey Brennan #MCU #Art Design

[blackpanthersource]

When Shuri picks her Black Panther helmet, she walks by T'Chaka and T'Challa's helmet and chooses hers, her destiny.  But they are there with her, holding her up and giving her strength. - Hannah Beachler

#shuri #t'challa #t'chaka #behind the scenes #hannah beachler #black panther wakanda forever

[wakandaiscoming]

no one: how are you feeling today?

me: you know, still mad that hannah beachler didn't get a nomination for her production design in wakanda forever, you?

#production designer #production design #academy awards #oscars #hannah beachler #black panther: wakanda forever

[hauscrashburn]

Found this neat thing and omgosh! I love this idea of Namor going to the surface, taking things, and having a whole treasure trove of stuff (I feel like someone included that in a fic).

But also them joking about how he has the heart of the ocean!

"So, things that Namor was mainly stealing off of ships. We had an old pirate ship wheel, we had navigational equipment that you would see from the 1800s all the way up until the war. You would see things from the war that he would throw off his ships and stuff. The latest thing he took obviously was the [diving suit] in the beginning. So, he kind of had a way of collecting, and that’s also why we called it the memorabilia room. There was an old painting that he might have taken in Italy, so we had all these things from the time that he had stolen. I had said at one point, I thought it was really funny, I said to Ryan, I was like, “Does he have the heart of the ocean?” That would be a nice ring."

#namor #shuri #black panther #wakanda forever #talokan #namor the submariner #tenoch huerta #black panther production #hannah beachler

[mauricecherry]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and that’s not just because it’s a sequel to one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. After the tragic and sudden passing of megastar Chadwick Boseman, Ryan Coogler and the cast and crew of this film came together and put it all on the line to deliver a cinematic tribute truly fit for a king.

In this bonus episode of Revision Path, I sit down again with Reginé Gilbert, Jordan Green, and Paul Webb to dive deep into the symbolism, visuals, and music behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Warning: we spoil the entire movie in this episode, so if you haven’t watched the film yet, you might want to do that before listening.

Yibambe!

For extended show notes, including a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.

Revision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.

It is produced by Maurice Cherry and engineered and edited by RJ Basilio. Our intro voiceover is by Music Man Dre, with intro and outro music by Yellow Speaker. Transcripts provided by Brevity & Wit.

SUBSCRIBE, RATE, AND REVIEW! Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | SoundCloud | Spotify

#Revision Path #Black Panther #Wakanda Forever #Black Panther Wakanda Forever #Maurice Cherry #Jordan Green #Regine Gilbert #Paul Webb #Hannah Beachler #Marvel Studios

[endeavornetwork]

Honestly just putting there here for my future reference.

#hannah beachler #wakanda forever #talokan #mcu

[tllgrrl]

…I wrote to him all over this movie, throughout the world we built.

Production Designer Hannah Beachler’s heartfelt Tweet about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

It’s a series of Tweets about grief, grieving and honoring Chadwick Boseman through design.

#black panther: wakanda forever #production design #hannah beachler #on making black panther #wakanda forever #mcu #black artists

[balimode]

Mesh gloves can look good, Quinta proved that, but this whole ensemble feels kind of incomplete. Messily put together. :[

#hannah beachler #red carpet #critics choice awards #bali reviews: critics choice #bali reviews

[blackfashion2018]

Hannah Beachler

#hannah beachler

[shollowsource]

#hannah beachler

[namorthesubmariner]

Namor's throne seat.  A Magalodon jaw with Jade Teeth. The Hieroglyph carved in the bone reads, "This Jade Tooth Bites." I thought it was charming and dangerous like Namor. The piece was 12 feet tall by 10 feet wide.  It was BIG! - Hannah Beachler

Namor’s Throne - Behind the Scenes Photos shared by Art Director Jason T. Clark. Photo and Commentary shared by Production Designer Hannah Beachler

#black panther: wakanda forever #behind the scenes #mcu namor #namor's throne #throne room #photography #hannah beachler #jason t clark

[namor-the-submariner-dot-net]

Monday MCU

Hannah Beachler, the Oscar winning production designer of both Black Panther and Wakanda Forever, shared pictures of the design bibles she created for those shows. The Talokan Bible is not pictured, but of similar length.

Needless to say, Namor and Talokan fans were appreciative and entreating, hoping for publication of this holy grail of Talokan lore. Whereupon Beachler said:

So, fire up your POLITE demands / entreaties to Marvel, Disney, Random House, on social platforms and snail mail if you want to see the Production Design Bibles published.

#Namor #Sub-Mariner #Talokan #MCU Namor #Hannah Beachler #Wakanda Forever #Books #Monday MCU #Monday

[vibe-stash]

Moonlight (2016)

Director: Barry Jenkins Cinematography: James Laxton Production Design: Hannah Beachler Art Direction: Mabel Barba

#cinematography #film stills #visual storytelling #moonlight #moonlight 2016 #barry jenkins #mahershala ali #the absolute visceral loneliness tho

[wakandaiscoming]

https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/hannah-beachler-wakanda-forever-set-design-easter-eggs.html

Drop everything. Hannah Beachler has spoken.

#black panther #black panther: wakanda forever #Hannah beachler

[gamgwat]

I saw a post that was asking why Talokan is named after the Aztec underworld paradise Tlālōcān when the Talokanil are Mayan. I was pleasantly surprised by the backstory given by one of the film’s cultural consultants, Dr. Gerardo Aldana, on this week’s episode of the Wakanda Forever podcast (which is excellent btw). He makes the distinction that they came up with Talokan as a Maya pronunciation of Tlālōcān, and that Tenoch’s input was crucial to finalizing the backstory: 

“Ryan comes to me and he says ‘Hey, Tenoch says he doesn’t look totally Mayan, so can he possibly be mixed? Can he be mixed indigenous?’ And I said that’s perfect, because if Tenoch’s father’s family is pochteca, that means there’s these mercenary spies from the Aztec empire, and they come out, and they live in Yucatán, and then his mom is Mayan, so he’s like this mixed indigenous race, and then it gets even better because once they go into the underworld...and Namor’s like, ‘Hey I want to know more about my dad, I want to know about his community,’ she’s telling him all these stories about what he [Namor’s father] would tell her, and he talks about Tlālōcān, which becomes Talokan. So then you end up with the final name: he’s inspired by this father that he never knew, this paradise in the underworld, and that becomes the name of what he wants to build.”

I'm so moved by the idea of Namor’s love for his people being influenced by his love and grief for both of his parents—and his vision for Talokan being influenced by both parts of his heritage. Also appreciated that, on the podcast, Tenoch made a point of clarifying 1) the film’s imagining of a pre-Hispanic Maya community is distinct from current indigenous communities and the oppression they face, and 2) he’s not indigenous so “that doesn’t mean that the current indigenous and the mixed people in Latin America can feel represented” (though they can possibly feel connected). 

I def don’t think the movie is perfect and I defer to how indigenous folks of Latin America feel about the incorporation of Mayan culture. But I have a lot of admiration for how thoughtful every member of the team seems to have been in approaching it, and the specific generosity of Black filmmakers including non-Black indigenous people in an Afrofuturist project. Other episodes of the podcast highlight the immense amount of research and work that Hannah Beachler and Ruth E. Carter conducted in creating the visual world of Talokan—and their determination, along with Ryan Coogler’s, to do it with respect for the people and culture and understanding of the stakes—and imo it really shows.

#wakanda forever #black panther wakanda forever #talokan #mcu namor #tenoch huerta