"To create a postwar New York for Marty Supreme, director Josh Safdie wooed a production designer he hadn't worked with before: 79-year-old Jack Fisk, a legend who lives far from Hollywood on a rural-Virginia farm he bought in 1978 with his wife, Sissy Spacek. (They met on Badlands, the first of eight films he dreamed up with Terrence Malick.) Fisk is the industry's go-to designer for period-specific prestige,"
"Marty Supreme is chockablock with similarly specific delights, from a delivery truck for the Forward parked outside the paper's old offices to an armadillo on sale at a pet store perfectly legal back then! We spoke about blue-law exceptions on Orchard Street, renting out the $38 million Woolworth mansion, and why no apartments should be able to pass for a tenement in 2025."
"Sara Rossein, the producer, had learned about Lawrence's, which was on 55th Street and seems to be the first Black-owned business in the Times Square area. It was run by a player named Herwald Lawrence, and we were able to find actual floor plans. It was an industrial building, and a business directory showed a car-parts place below and an acting school on another floor."
Josh Safdie recruited veteran production designer Jack Fisk to recreate a postwar New York for Marty Supreme. Fisk lives on a rural Virginia farm and has a long career producing period-specific, prestige sets. His work includes Five Points for Gangs of New York, 1920s oil derricks for There Will Be Blood, and detailed Osage-era colors for Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk researches fire maps and floor plans and employs method building, such as constructing a Jamestown fort from natural materials. The film features precise period touches, including a Forward delivery truck, a pet-store armadillo, and a faithfully reconstructed Ping-Pong club based on floor plans and photographs.
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