Marvel Studios kicked off the year with the release of their new series, Echo. Headlined by Alaqua Cox, the series debuted on Disney+ Hotstar in India and took the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a different direction. With conversations surrounding the series continue to take place in the digital alleys of Reddit, production designer Chris Trujillo opened up about working on the series. He confessed he was excited to be a part of the series but he was nervous about it too.
“Coming into the project I was a bit nervous about being accountable for making our show fit neatly within the larger continuity of the Marvel Universe, which I understood would require quite a lot of video conferencing with the creative heads of said universe. I was pleasantly surprised to find that those big picture creative meetings turned out to be creatively open and invigorating. To their credit, Kevin and his crew of outstanding creative producers, while they are understandably concerned with ensuring the continuity and integrity of the MCU, are also firmly committed to allowing each project to find its own voice, and they were genuinely enthusiastic and fun to collaborate with,” he said.
“As a production designer, Echo is the kind of project I look forward to. The opportunity to simultaneously explore and recreate the present day cultural specificity of a unique Native American community in Oklahoma and its historical and mythological antecedents, with the added bonus of building a number of action packed set pieces was very exciting. The most fulfilling aspect of the whole experience was the in-depth introduction I got to Native American culture and history, particularly from all of the incredible people I was able to meet and become close with on the show,” he added.
Trujillo also weighed in on how Echo is unique as compared to other MCU series. “From my earliest meetings on Echo it was clear that it was meant to be a more grounded, gritty, warm, human world than much of what has preceded it in the MCU. To that end, I was careful to infuse all of my creative decisions about the color, tone and texture of the world we were creating with a blend of real world observation and experience of the culture we were referencing and a considered approach to historical research. I was lucky enough to have the guidance of many people closely connected to the Native American culture we were portraying, people with a wealth of lived experience as well as experts in the history and mythology we were trying to honor with the show,” he said.
All episodes of Echo is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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