The Art Of Craft: ‘News Of The World’ Production Designer David Crank Maps Out 300-Mile Journey Across 1870s Texas

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“I think often what can happen with period pieces, as well as Westerns, is they just get kind of fancy—and sometimes, it works for the story.

But when you look at pictures from the time period of towns all over the U.S., on the edge of things, things were rough. No one was worrying about having the perfect colored front door.” — David CrankFor more from our conversation with the News of the World production designer about the work that went into his first collaboration with Greengrass, read on.DEADLINE: From what I understand, News of the World is your first Western.

How did you come to work on the film, and what excited you about it?DAVID CRANK: I had worked with Playtone several times, and I came to it through them, through [producer]