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« on: January 23, 2011, 05:30:42 PM »
It's been known since December '08 that the Depp/DS film will shoot in England. And even before it was officially mentioned, many fans strongly suspected as much because that's been Burton's MO for well over a decade. The big unknown that still remains is will the exterior of Collinwood be CGI or a real house. And we can't even judge that by the hiring of Rick Heinrichs as the Production Designer because even though he used a real house for exteriors in The Wolfman, a CGI house was used for his Oscar winning design for Sleepy Hollow. I suppose a lot of it will come down to what the backstory of Collinwood is in the film as well as whether or not they can find a real house that represents what Heinrichs, Burton, et al. are picturing as Collinwood, or if they have to create it digitally. One good thing - there are certainly many perfectly appropriate Tudor style mansions in England if they want to go with a look/backstory similar to the '91 Series - or even Gothic style mansions if they want to go with a look similar to hoDS. Or they might even have a totally different style mansion in mind. Only time will tell.
If they go with a real English mansion, I'd prefer Tudor. But so long as it's huge enough to give the impression that much of it is closed off and hasn't been in use for years and years, I can accept almost any sort of style that would be architecturally appropriate for whatever backstory they come up with...
And speaking of mansions in England, the photo of Antony that's linked to in the IlfracombePeople piece makes it look like it could easily "play" the Old House. I'm only judging by that photo, but Antony looks very much like the type of mansion that could have been built in New England between 1700 and 1780.