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Director Ridley Scott was intrigued by the Western Cape s quiver trees, or kokerboom
It was the extraordinary and eerie sight of a “tablecloth of cloud” coming over the mountains near Lourensford in the Western Cape that had renowned director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, Prometheus and Gladiator) entranced.
He was in South Africa to
shoot the biggest budget TV series ever filmed in the country, HBO’s Raised by
Wolves.
Scott told Forbes magazine: “We found a range of mountains that were in your face for about a kilometre, and every morning this tablecloth of cloud would come in, it would just roll over them, and I went, ‘Oh my God!’ It was surreal, it was otherworldly, so half the work was done, just by the location.”
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