(L-R) EDWARD NORTON as Lionel Essrog, BETH MICKLE and RUSSELL BARNES as Penn Station Lovers and in Warner Bros. The same digital pattern was then used by the visual coordinator and multiplied out through the rest of the scene in VFX. It was so detailed, Beth says, that the graphic designer Donna Kim even added the drop shadows for each of the glass blocks and added little glimmers of light to emphasize the reflectiveness of the glass. “We determined that we needed to build a physical entrance door and hallway leading to a set of stairs,” Beth explains, “Then we needed long stretch of flooring that matched the original Penn Station flooring-this would be the path that Edward walks along, so that VFX didn’t have to recreate the whole stretch of flooring that Edward’s feet touched.” The original floor was made of concrete and inlaid glass block, and the production team created a 15-foot wide by 100-foot long walkway by replicating the pattern found in historic photos and printing it onto linoleum flooring rolls. Then, in discussions between Norton, VFX Supervisor Mark Russell, Director of Photography Dick Pope, and the producers, it was decided what was physically needed on set for the action that was going to take place. They also came across original blueprints of Penn Station, which were used by the VFX team to recreate the layout of the station.
In this process, they were particularly interested in what would show “architectural details, as well as placement of the lockers, benches, staircases, signage, kiosk dressing,” and other elements. All Rights Reservedįor the recreation of Penn Station, Mickle and her team began by gathering historical imagery from the Library of Congress, the NYPL Digital Collections, and the film the Seven Year Itch that featured a scene shot in the original station. Pictures’ drama “MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN,” a Warner Bros. Penn Station as recreated in Warner Bros. Just by putting that scene there, keeping it there for this very pivotal moment, will really drive home the point to audiences that this decision was made to tear down that building.” Still standing and operational, it would have been more cost effective for the film, but Norton understood how the station’s fate ties into one of the main themes of Motherless Brooklyn, “to really show what happened with the modernization of a city and some of the decisions that are made.
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Mickle tells us that the appearance of old Penn Station in the movie can be credited to the steadfast vision of Norton, saying “it was all entirely Edward being really insistent that we show Penn Station and show the original one.” Many on the production team suggested using Grand Central Terminal in Penn’s stead, the grand transportation hub in New York City that was fortunately saved from demolition.
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