![]() ![]() The town was also used as a quaint backdrop for a parade in the series. A shuttered fire station in Didsbury was transformed into a police station. This required not only a tireless search in Calgary and beyond, but also some heavy lifting from the production design team. These are all real places and we wanted to make sure we were honouring the story as best we could and allow people to immerse themselves in the story and not take them out of it because it didn’t feel like it was really Utah.” ![]() ![]() “Particularly for a show like this where it was really important in the world-building to be as authentic as possible to Utah and Salt Lake City and American Fork, where the story takes place. “Period is just getting harder and harder to do because things are being torn down,” says Palmer. It’s a dark story that unfolds in different timelines, from the 1980s period of the crime to historical asides about the early days of Mormonism in the 19th century. The investigation leads to her in-laws, the Laffertys, an influential family with deep roots in Utah’s Church of Latter-Day Saints community. Pyre is a fictionalized character, a devout Mormon and family man investigating the brutal murders of a young mother (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter. Now streaming on Disney+ Canada, Under the Banner of Heaven is an unsettling drama based on the true-crime book of the same name by Jon Krakauer. It’s telling that, even among veteran industry pros, Palmer and his team’s ability to find more than 100 unique locations in Calgary and southern Alberta for the 90-day shoot was seen as nothing short of miraculous. So it’s really trying to help people understand what we do.” “It starts with a location scout knocking on your door and taking photos to a visit with the location manager at the production centre to a group of seven or eight or 10 people coming with the producer and director and director of photography and then it just keeps expanding. “It’s important to be as transparent as possible about the process because it can be overwhelming for people,” says Palmer. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But the production had to convince the family who lived there to move out for six months and submit to having the interior of their home drastically altered. The house in Carstairs and the street it was on were perfect for the 1980s time period. Palmer and his team had searched Beiseker, Crossfield, Didsbury and Strathmore among many other towns. It reveals how Palmer and his crew found a perfect house in Carstairs to stand in for the family home of Detective Jeb Pyre, the protagonist played by Andrew Garfield. The project was deemed so ambitious and the results so impressive that it is the subject of a cover story in the spring issue of Compass, a magazine put out by the Location Managers Guild International. It was a massive, multi-faceted effort to transform these locations into Salt Lake City, American Fork, Miami, remote areas of rural Utah and even an isolated red-dirt religious compound in Colorado City. Last August, he began leading a largely Calgary-based team as locations supervisor for the true-crime series Under the Banner of Heaven, which took him throughout the city and into dozens of small towns and rural spots in southern Alberta. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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