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Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Nobody Wants This', ‘Monsters' & ‘Forever' Teams On Showing LA On Screen
Los Angeles has had a tough few months. From the wildfires devastating large swathes of the city at the start of the year to the current unrest in downtown LA, the city has faced its challenges. Netflix, however, has been keen to show Los Angeles on screen in three of its latest hits – Nobody Wants This, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and Forever. More from Deadline David Harbour On Feeling Relieved Over 'Stranger Things' Ending: "You're Having To Play A Lot Of The Same Beat" 'Arcane' Showrunner Christian Linke On Exploring Character Relationships & Artistic "Extremes" For Season 2 'Ginny & Georgia' Season 3 Debuts At No. 1 On Netflix TV Charts, Boosting Entire Series Back Into Top 10 Nobody Wants This is a romcom, largely set on the east side of LA, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody; Monsters, the Ryan Murphy-produced story of the murders of José and Kitty Menendez, takes place in Beverly Hills and Forever is Mara Brock Akil's adaptation of the Judy Blume novel set in Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills. All three shows were designed as a 'love letter' to LA, according to those behind them. At a Netflix FYSEE event – Crafting LA: The City You Love Onscreen, Claire Bennett, production designer of Nobody Wants This and editor Maura Corey, Monsters production designer Matthew Flood Fergusson and Suzuki Ingerslev, production designer for Forever and music supervisor Kier Lehman spoke about bringing LA to life onscreen across various neighborhoods in the city and eras. Corey said Nobody Wants This 'set out to make LA a character'. The show is set across Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silverlake and Eagle Rock with locations such as Mirate and De Buena Planta. 'Shooting on location really did help shape the performances. The actors had a more intimate connection because they weren't on a sound stage, they were in a house, or a restaurant,' she added. 'We specifically went out too to shoot B-roll that was pops of LA that you don't normally see. It wasn't aerials of the Hollywood sign. It wasn't the Capitol [Records] building. We made sure to make it look like you were walking down the streets of LA. You see a bus. We have busses here.' She added that the team shot some of the interstitials a little bit off speed to give it a dream quality and did jump cuts to make it feel like one was walking down the street, seeing LA from the ground level. Forever, which is set in 2018, lent in on the musical aspect, using music from local artists such as Tyler, The Creator, SZA, Nipsey Hussle and Victoria Monét. Daniel Caesar's Blessed was used during a reunion between the two leads, while Frank Ocean's Moon River was played at the end as they broke up. Lehman said that it was important to use music that these characters would have been listening to at the time. 'What were the things that they would have been hearing, in the world, in the city, maybe things that would be on the radio, or things that were in the community, and things that they were sharing with friends,' he said. 'The music coming out of LA at that time… it was a really rich environment with a lot of really incredible artists that became huge, household names,' he added. In Monsters, Erik Menendez was a tennis prodigy and Matthew Flood Fergusson revealed that this posed some challenges. In 2004, the National Tennis Association changed the color of all tennis courts from green to blue, but seeing as the show was set in the late 1980s, the courts they used needed to be green. 'I would run to a location, very excited and be immediately let down that [the court was] blue. We looked into the cost of resurfacing a tennis court, and that proved to be prohibitive, so we found a house, a sweet man owned this house out in Sherman Oaks, which then [became] their tennis court,' he added. Watch the conversation below. Best of Deadline List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media
Geek Tyrant
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
ARCANE Writer Teases Spinoff Exploring Motherhood and Aging Heroes: 'What Happens When Vi and Caitlyn Are Older?' — GeekTyrant
Ever since Arcane Season 2 wrapped up with a bang, fans have been wondering about what's next for the franchise. While Riot Games and Fortiche are playing things close to the chest, writer Amanda Overton just dropped an intriguing hint at where a potential spin-off could go… emotionally and thematically. Overton, who helped shape the scripts for both seasons of the hit Netflix series, recently opened up about how her personal life is shifting the kind of stories she wants to tell next. She told ScreenRant: 'I wasn't a mother when we were writing season 1 and 2, and now I am. And I was like, 'There is so much more to explore in terms of motherhood, or how phases of life shift.'' That life perspective could open the door to a very different kind of Arcane story, one less focused on rising conflict and more about the evolution of the people who've already fought their battles. Overton added: '[I'd be interested in] older characters – what happens when Vi and Caitlyn are older, and now they're adults, and what choices do they make?' It's an interesting pivot, especially considering how Arcane Season 2 ended with Piltover reeling from Ambessa's invasion, Viktor's time-bending technology shifting the tides, and Vi suffering heartbreaking losses with Vander and Jinx. But a quieter, character-driven follow-up could be exactly what the series needs to deepen its emotional resonance. Meanwhile, showrunner Christian Linke is keeping things a bit more grounded. In the same interview, he said: 'I think, for now, it's a moment for us to take a step back [and] look at the whole map, if you will.' That cautious tone is a shift from the immediate post-finale energy, when fans expected multiple new projects to go into development. In fact, things got so speculative that Riot co-founder Marc Merrill had to clarify things on X: 'To clarify, he didn't say 3 separate shows – said exploring 3 regions. We are exploring a bunch of different shows (and games).' Still, fans hoping to return to Runeterra are going to have a wait a while. When previously talking about the future of the franchise, Linke made it clear: 'Yeah, it takes time – depending on if it's a series or a movie. We're exploring both in many, many directions. A lot of it comes down to finding the right people, the right vision, the right idea, the right story. 'That'll take years, and once we have confidence that something's happening, we'll talk more about it." For now, both seasons of Arcane are streaming on Netflix. As for what's next, older heroes, motherhood, new regions, or maybe all of the above, I'mlooking forward to seeing what's next.
