DAN: This is the statue of Fuxi who, originally, was going to be the brother of the Creator twins who was involved in the Mogwai mythology. We ended up later on swapping it out for his sister Nüwa. There’s a statue that resides in the heart of Jade Valley where he holds this magic carving knife that is all the power.
JADE VALLEY: HOME OF THE MOGWAI
DAN: We knew the very bare bones of the story were that Mr Wing was 10 years old in Shanghai in 1920. He meets Gizmo and takes him across China to his ancestral home, which is in the Himalayas. So it’s going to be sort of a Journey To The West story. We knew that we started in Shanghai and ended up in the Himalayas. So just trying to find what an ancestral home for a Mogwai seems like and make a visual contrast. They follow the river, the Yangtze River, from the foothills of the Himalayas to Shanghai. So this is supposed to be the source of those waters.
TARA: The actual final [show] image, we decided to elevate it. It’s almost like an egg
