Barrie Gower: Last News

Zack Sharf Don’t even think about calling HBO’s “The Last of Us” a zombie show. Eben Bolter, the cinematographer who shot four episodes of the video game adaptation’s 10-episode first season, recently told The Credits that referring to the series as a zombie show or using the word zombie to refer to the undead characters was strictly not allowed on set. “We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,” Bolter said. “It was like a banned word. They were the Infected. We weren’t a zombie show. Of course, there’s tension building and jump scares but the show’s really about our characters; The Infected are an obstacle they have to deal with.”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood, prosthetic makeup artist Barrie Gower, and composers Hans Zimmer, Nicholas Britell and Danny Elfman were among the industry heavyweights who landed Creative Arts Emmy nominations on Wednesday morning. Four-time Oscar winner Atwood landed her second Emmy nomination in the outstanding contemporary costumes for Tim Burton’s “Wednesday.” Speaking about her work on the show and about recreating the icon Morticia Addams’ costumes, Atwood said, “We reinvented look with this silver fabric on the side, which was bonded to the black, twisted and sewn over. The dress had a more contemporary shape to it. I think we honored the previous versions of Morticia that had come before.

Celebrating the talent behind-the-scenes the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023 in London honored House of the Dragon and This is Going to Hurt with each winning three trophies.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” and medical comedy-drama “This Is Going to Hurt” walked away with three awards each at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards on Sunday. This year’s ceremony, which salutes behind-the-scenes talent, was hosted by former “Bake Off” judge Mel Giedroyc. HBO’s “House of the Dragon” won for make-up and hair design (Amanda Knight, Barrie Gower and Rosalia Culora); sound in fiction (Alastair Sirkett, Doug Cooper, Martin Seeley, Paula Fairfield, Tim Hands, Adele Fletcher) and special, visual and graphic effects (Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, MPC, Pixomodo).

On the morning they opened the writers room for the fifth and final season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, Emmy-nominated creators Matt & Ross Duffer teamed with prosthetics designer Barrie Gower to relive for Deadline Contenders the events of Season 4.

Jamie Campbell Bower’s incredible transformation into “Stranger Things” season 4’s villain was a huge shock to co-star Millie Bobby Brown.

Millie Bobby Brown may be on good terms with her co-star Jamie Campbell Bower, but seeing him in his costume drove her to tears.Bower, 33, played a villain named Vecna on the most recent season of the critically-acclaimed Netflix drama Stranger Things.The Sweeney Todd actor opened up about filming a scene with Brown, 18, in an interview withVarietyinterview published Friday. Scary stuff: Millie Bobby Brown may be on good terms with her co-star Jamie Campbell Bower, but seeing him in his costume drove her to tears, he revealed to Variety on Friday; Brown pictured in Stranger Things'They brought her up into a position where she’s bound,' he told the publication.

Stranger Things took seven hours to complete every day.Prosthetics designer Barrie Gower recently told NME about the lengthy process to bring to life the character for The Duffer Brothers, who wanted “their own iconic villain”.Gower explained they created Vecna by making a plaster cast around Campbell Bower from head-to-toe. “It was a really lengthy process of generating the 25 different moulded pieces that made up his makeup,” he said.He went on to reveal the process took between six and eight hours every day, saying: “It was just this massive production line.“We shot 25 days with Jamie and every day needed a brand new set of appliances because when we removed them at the end of the day, we needed to use a mineral oil which destroyed all the fragile, delicate edges where everything overlapped.”Campbell Bower recently revealed he would listen to Placebo‘s cover of ‘Running Up That Hill’ to help him get out of character as Vecna on the set of Stranger Things.“Escaping Vecna… I’m a huge fan of Placebo,” he said.

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is officially being made into a TV show on Channel 4.The viral YouTube series launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign, and was announced to be receiving a TV adaptation in 2018.It will now officially premiere on Channel 4 this September, as teased in a new promo video called ‘FLY’.Take a look at the teaser below:The teaser sees characters Yellow Guy, Duck and Red Guy sat at the kitchen table of the first shot of the YouTube series after showing an abandoned area full of destroyed items.A fly buzzes around the characters, until Duck smacks it using a clipboard and says, “Pesky bee”.The teaser then sees Yellow Guy’s dad make an appearance to announce the TV series release date of September 2022.In other TV horror news, the makeup artists on Stranger Things recently revealed they were inspired by Game Of Thrones for Vecna.BAFTA-winning designer Barrie Gower explained to Digital Spy that Matt and Ross Duffer had looked to the villainous character from the HBO show for inspiration for Jamie Campbell-Bower’s character Vecna“Their brief, really – they were fans of our work from Game Of Thrones, and the character we did, the Night King,” Gower explained.He added: “I think they were after a menacing character, and somebody who had a similar presence to the Night King.

Stranger Things villain Vecna was inspired by the Night King in Game Of Thrones, the Netflix show’s makeup designer has revealed.BAFTA-winning designer Barrie Gower explained to Digital Spy that Matt and Ross Duffer had looked to the villainous character from the HBO show for inspiration.“Their brief, really – they were fans of our work from Game Of Thrones, and the character we did, the Night King. And they were also fans of recent work we’d done for Chernobyl for HBO as well, with all the radiation-burn victims,” Gower explained.“For season four they were after an iconic villain, and I think they almost wanted a mix of those two approaches.

Netflix have released a Stranger Things timelapse video documenting the transformation process for Vecna – check it out below.In the fourth season of the hit series, Jamie Campbell-Bower plays new villain Vecna, underneath a heavy amount of prosthetics courtesy of artist Barrie Gower.Take a look at the video here:watch Jamie Campbell Bower transform into Vecna in this timelapse from STRANGER THINGS 4 pic.twitter.com/TuNAqrkGZI— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) June 15, 2022Describing the transformation process, Gower said: “we’d have this very orchestrated sort of dance we’d do around Jamie. He would start sitting down, and we’d stand him up.

Wilson Chapman editorSpoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab,” the seventh episode of ‘Strangers Things’ Season 4, now streaming on Netflix.The first three seasons of “Stranger Things” saw plenty of memorable eldritch creatures terrorize the citizens of Hawkins, Ind., from the carnivorous Demogorgons to the colossal Mind-Flayer. But Season 4 introduces perhaps the most terrifying foe yet in Vecna, played by Jamie Campbell Bower as both the monster itself and as its human form Henry Creel.

Carlos Aguilar The eponymous mythical entity in David Lowery’s Arthurian reinterpretation “The Green Knight” was as tactile on set as it appears on screen. Imposing and oaken, this embodiment of the unknown (death and nature) is played by actor Ralph Ineson (“The Witch”) with masterful prosthetics from seasoned makeup effects artist Barrie Gower (“Game of Thrones”) and his team at BGFX, the London-based company he co-founded with his wife Sarah Gower.Gower was unfamiliar with the tale of  “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” before Lowery approached him.

Michelle Pfeiffer is getting in the Halloween spirit a bit early this year.