The Pitt’s Emergency Room Set Had A Surprisingly High Cost

It is fun to think how many medical dramas exist, everyone had to make a stand out just to show the audience what kind of doctor really is. HBO Max’s hit series “Pitt” has been praised as one of the most accurate medical The dramas have ever done, and the show proved to be a huge success among the audience and the real doctors. It seems that the secret was to make the exhibition as realistic as possible. Not just “Pitt” points out not to use music at allBut the “Pitt” actor is mostly future actors without a great public profile. Naturalist, hand -held imaging style emphasizes the feeling of realism, as well as production design, which is so good, you may well be convinced that the series was shot in the right hospital.

After all, it would make sense. If you are going to make the most realistic medical drama that has ever been made, you may consider tracing an unused medical space and tailoring your needs. Instead, the er, described in the “pitfall”, is truly built into the sound stages Warner Bros. In the studio in Burbank, California. But this series is built so much by paying attention to the details that it can just as well be a real place.

The imaginary Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, with Dr. Michael Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) and his urgent medical doctors working as a deepening place as all ever photographed on the screen. Most of it is made up of production designer Nina Ruscio, who founded her design at the Real Allenny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. However, creating such a realistic series did not come cheap.

Before “Pitt” made it out, there was no indication that it would be after which it has since come from. Just before the debut of the exhibition Noah Wyle who previously acted in medical drama “ER” had led Epic TV fantasy franchise The TNT TV movie “Librarian: Spear” and His “Er” days were far behind him. But when joining the other “Er” aluminum with R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells, Wyle noticed that he had a story worth telling about doctors and their modern experiences. In other words, he was eager to tell how much trauma artists last in the actual workplace, especially as a result of a global pandemic. As the actor said Stephen Colbert“Three of us [Wyle, Wells, and Gemmill] Came back just because during Covid we recognized that there was another story to tell and that it was important for us to tell it. This is a community that we care a lot. “

The trio went to the “Pitt” event in mind. When they made HBO Max drama, this was basically a real story they told about real doctors. As such, using their visceral medical drama in a series that is not an example of the fact that commitment to realism was never an option. Here Nina Ruscio came in. The production designer created Warner Bros. a completely credible medical set of the movie with marble -coated, claustrophobic waiting room and realistically sterile, living. Ruscio took great tips from the Pittsburgh Alhe a General Hospital, especially by imitating the marble columns of the real -life hospital in its Burbank -based version. “Pitt” was described Almost entirely in this series (with a few shots imprisoned at Real Pittsburgh Hospital).

Creating such a deepening and extensive series, which covered two Warner Brosin votes, was not exactly the cheapest project. By Wall Street JournalCreating a Faux-ER cost $ 4 million and was one of the most expensive objects “Pitt”.

Talking about creating a “Pitt” series VarietyNina Ruscio explained the main principles behind the design. “The purpose of this was to create a level of realism that would make it almost more a documentary movie than a story,” he said. “It’s a very glance at the palette.” He and the crew certainly managed to pull the realism perspective, but building everything from scratch came clearly with the price mark.

In other words, it seems that building their own series really made show runners save the long run. Executive producer John Wells revealed it earlier “Pitt” costs about $ 4 to $ 5 million per period And that the team was able to keep the costs low thanks to themselves, which meant that they did not need to use their unreasonable amount of budget for expensive CGI. As such, “Pitt” is actually a relatively inexpensive series up to the streaming series. “Severance”, for example, cost $ 20 million for a period in the second season and Of course, Netflix used $ 30 million with the “Stranger Things” season 4.

As expensive as the “Pitt” series was also one of the most important reasons why the creative team stayed on the budget. With “Pitt” season 2 officially greenIt will be interesting to see how much HBO Max invests in a forward -looking series, D Now that it has turned out to be one of the most interesting and popular new exhibitions of the year.