Latest in The Process

While Fallout has broken out as one of the most popular shows of the year, and one of Prime Video’s most popular ever, Jake Garber very nearly turned the project down, when he was approached about working as its prosthetic department head. This was, he recalls, because when first contacted by…

While DP Florian Hoffmeister had just scored his first Oscar nomination coming into True Detective: Night Country, for his stunning work on Todd Field’s Tár, showrunner Issa López almost declined to meet with him for the fourth season of HBO’s acclaimed crime anthology, having previously met with 10 other…

Coming into Apple TV+’s WWII drama Masters of the Air, as a cinematographer and trained pilot, Richard Rutkowski’s goal was to capture “the excitement and drama of being a heroic flyer,” while making the audience very aware of “the ramifications of violence.” In telling the story of the famed…

After working for three years on Showtime’s lauded spy thriller Homeland, Ron Nyswaner had a quite different vision for the look, feel and sound of Fellow Travelers, a series that would apply the momentum of that genre to “a love story.” Coming into the work on the series, for which he served as…

For veteran editor Janet Weinberg, who joined Hacks for Season 3, the introduction to her work on the series was unusual, given that the first episode of this new chapter wound up in the cutting room for about a year and a half. While work on Episode 1 commenced in the fall of 2022, she wound up…

In Lulu Wang’s Expats, production designer Yong Ok Lee found a “way bigger” studio production than she’d ever before tackled, which would challenge her to recreate the bustling and vibrant metropolis of Hong Kong as it was in 2014. For Wang, who had hired Lee for her acclaimed family drama The Farewel…

As the costume designer for FX’s historical epic Shōgun, set in 1600 Japan, Carlos Rosario knew his designs would serve the very vital purpose of supporting the audience’s connection to, and understanding of the story. In contrast to recent Best Picture winner Oppenheimer, another historical piece…

For costume designer Loulou Bontemps, Netflix’s The Gentlemen was her most challenging project yet with Guy Ritchie, on the back of four prior collaborations. An action comedy based on Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film of the same name, the show would serve as “an homage” to the popular crime flick…

While in recent years, Max’s ’90s-set crime drama Tokyo Vice has made history as the first major U.S. production to shoot entirely in Japan, it wasn’t clear from the outset that this would be possible. Given his experience decades prior as a young associate producer on Ridley Scott’s neo-noir Black Ra…

“I feel like I came to a whole other place on Ripley,” said production designer David Gropman recently of his work on the Netflix series from creator Steven Zaillian. Echoing those made by other department heads, Gropman’s remark came in conversation with Zaillian during the inaugural live edition of…

In bringing the comedy series Palm Royale to life for Apple TV+, creator Abe Sylvia’s hope was to create something reminiscent of “one of those movies that bankrupted the studio system in 1968” — a show that felt like “the last gasp of the big studio musical comedy.” “Before Easy Rider and the new…

To Cord Jefferson, jazz has always felt like “the sound of home.” So when thinking about the score for his first feature, American Fiction, where family was very much front and center, he felt there could be no more appropriate genre of music on which to draw. “I grew up in a household where jazz was…