Showtime (2004) / Director: Frank Pierson / Production Designer: Stephen Marsh
Paradise is a Showtime pilot about the world of big-money televangelists and centers on the story of former astronaut Bobby Paradise (David Strathairn). Here Bobby preaches to a stadium on his underlit, circular stage.
Wide shot of the underlit stage in a stadium full of the faithful.
Stadium skybox stage set.
The Paradise Ministry’s (David Strathairn) conference room.
The trashy set for Give me a Fucking Break, the garish shock jock's (Rick Hoffman) tv studio set.
Another view of the shock jock's (Rick Hoffman) studio set.
The preacher/former astronaut (David Strathairn) dreams he finds his younger self trapped in his space capsule deep beneath the ocean. Here we draped an indoor diving pool in black, then built a water-resistant capsule wall for the gag.
This miniature space capsule was placed on a dry "seafloor" set fogged-up and surrounded in black to allow us to shoot his approach to it.
A view of the miniature space capsule resting on the "Seafloor".
A remote, abandoned "Mexican" airstrip shack and gate build.
Cheap Mexican variety store dress.
Another view of a cheap Mexican variety store dress.
