

“For the Orgocorp planet, James said he wanted it to be all flesh,” Mickle said. The rest of the world building was just as imaginative, from the 300-mile-high red Arete skyscraper spacecraft in the shape of a cube, to the ’70s Counter-Earth planet, to the cold and sterile Halfworld lair of the villainous High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), to his bizarre intergalactic bio-engineering company, Orgocorp. “And so if you look, when Gamora is sitting in there, you can actually see the fabric gusset like a big ice pack,” Mickle said. Of course, it’s no ordinary toilet seat: It’s made from the same cotton material as old ice packs, courtesy of set decorator Rosemary Brandenburg. It all happened very quickly, and within two or three weeks of early concepts I had a rough pass and took it to James, and he was really excited by it.”Īnother fun fact is that they put a toilet on the Bowie, also pretty rare. “So we thought, OK, let’s put these colors onto the body of this. “I had never seen a wine-pink color in a spaceship,” Mickle said. She settled on teal and pink, which blended well together, and Gunn immediately approved. The production designer, who is one of the few women in the industry working on superhero tentpoles, also wanted a very special color palette for the Bowie.
