Oakes, whose character leaps off a cliff onto the back of Elliot the dragon, hangs on the top of a moving bus, leaps onto a passing truck and climbs up a huge tree fort. The cast and crew had to walk more than 400 yards across enormous boulders just to reach base camp. One location, McLaren Falls, was so remote that helicopters were used to bring camera equipment to the set. “New Zealand is so beautiful,” Oakes says. Most of the principal photography was around Wellington and in Ngongotaha just north of the Rotorua Redwood Forest. The North Island now has more than 200,000 acres of pine forests. shut down and were reconstructed in New Zealand, and thousands of Douglas firs from Oregon and redwoods from California were planted there as a result. In the years following World War II, a number of lumber mills in the U.S. “We wanted the trees to be a little bit taller, the sun a bit brighter and the wind to have that sort of magical quality, and we found that just walking out the door in New Zealand.”įorests in New Zealand are quite similar in appearance to those found in the Pacific Northwest. “The movie takes place in a very realistic world but we’ve heightened it just a bit to capture the magic of a child’s perspective of the world,” says Lowery. Oakes says New Zealand, which is off the coast of Australia, is “magical.”
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