Those were very much part of our design approach the spine of that was super critical. Placing Alex in a downtown environment was really critical, placing her in a space that was blanched of color again in homage to the original film being aware of the intense legacy of the bathroom and the bathtub.

I think it also would be arrogant and presumptuous to not draw upon the resources of what the original film taught us visually. Nina Ruscio: Certainly! Well, I don’t think that you can live in the wake of an iconic film like that without embracing it and also then paying homage to it. Ruscio also talks about how the production design reflects the new series’s 15-year time shift in such locations as the Gallagher homes.įinally, she also talks about building out a full courthouse set, designed to reaffirm the maze-like condition of the Los Angeles court system.Īwards Daily: With Fatal Attraction, are there any nods to the original film within your production design for the Paramount+ series? For example, as Ruscio describes here in an interview with Awards Daily, Alex Forrest’s loft, now relocated to Los Angeles from the original’s New York City, boasts the same unencumbered, light color palette as the film’s original apartment, helping define the very character of Alex Forrest. Production designer Nina Ruscio channeled her design inspiration for the new series that stems from color palettes and design concepts piloted in the original film. What you may not expect, though, is that character names and lines of dialogue aren’t the only aspects of the original series to find its way into the new take on the story. While the relationship doesn’t quite hold the same threat level as in the original film, the troubled Forrest still poses a lingering problem for the unfaithful family man. In this new take, Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson) finds solace in the arms of Alex Forrest (Lizzy Caplan) when he fails to obtain a much sought-after promotion. That iconic quote from the original 1987 Best Picture nominee Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in Oscar-nominated roles, finds its way into Paramount+’s modern retelling of the story.

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