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- What the hell you want, man? - There's nothing more exciting
- than seeing The Saint of Killers. - Yeah.
100% most excited to see that.
We're gonna be ramping into like a big project
and we're gonna be carving out time,
just to come down to see it.
Partially to help, but mostly
- 'cause I wanna see it. - I just wanna see it.
CATLIN: It felt like we had to have
The Saint of Killers in season one,
but we also knew that Jesse was gonna be in a stationary place
pretty much in season one.
We couldn't have Jesse standing still
and The Saint of Killers on his ass,
because Jesse would be dead.
He is the angel of death in Garth's comics.
I was a massive fan of the books and of this character,
so to be standing here like this is extraordinary really.
SLOVIS: The story that Sam and Evan and Seth had adapted
really from the comic books, and we're gonna account for his behavior in our show.
To me it was all about the humanity of it
and justifying to a certain degree,
why his behavior is what it is.
And give me one where you give him no choice in the matter.
You have to go.
And cut it.
The moment where he leaves behind
the pistols and the sword,
I think tells you that this is a man
that he's trying to leave behind.
He makes a choice to kind of try to help people
that maybe otherwise you wouldn't try to help,
and because of that he loses everything.
- [PUNCHES LANDING] - [MAN GROANING]
Cut it!
He is a Civil War veteran who fought for the South.
Gettysburg, third day, Pickett's Charge.
Graham McTavish is the perfect choice for us,
for Saint of Killers, he is an extraordinary actor,
he's worked in so many different genres.
Don't.
We only have four days here
to tell the Ratwater Saint of Killers story,
we also hired a second unit director, so while we're here,
we have two units working all the time for 12 hours a day.
It's a little frontier town.
It's kind of like Anneville, in that it's damned,
it's just kind of like that bad town with a bad vibe.
It's the only way of making money
is from scalps being traded in which is horrible.
Do you agree, yes or no, that this is paradise?
It ain't.
I've had people working on that tree
for a solid two weeks, because the tree was a big full tree
with all the little leaves and branches, it looked pretty.
Now I have to make it evil.
We can assume that there was a settlement before Ratwater
that was destroyed,
and obviously there's a settlement
after Ratwater that is destroyed.
Around the edges and the peripheries
there's demons and it's hell.
SMITHSON: This is I think a full cow skeleton,
and these bones have not been cleaned, they are the real deal.
These are actually replicas of real whale skulls, they're rotocast.
The unfortunate thing is we could have done this couple days ago,
- but there are bands of coyotes. - And they will eat the bones
- and take 'em away. - Yeah.
GOLDBERG: There's the classic hell of like,
oh, you just get tortured or flayed or whatever.
But you need to experience the highest, experience the lows,
and just like taking your own memories
and using them against you is like trapping you.
ROGEN: Your own mistakes, your own things.
GOLDBERG: And when it's your own stuff, it's just gonna eat you up
way worse than any exterior pain.
MAN: Action!
This is shadow and he's gonna do a lot of the pecking at the doll.
We usually use a laser pointer.
We'll shine the laser on their nose and then they'll hit the nose,
and then you don't have to use the laser and they note that and hit that spot.
[CAWING]
ENNIS: I love the horrible discovery,
the crows flying out of the chimney pot.
Snatching up the pistols and the saber,
and going back to Ratwater, this time with, uh,
a rather more grim mission in mind. I thought they nailed that perfectly.
MCTAVISH: The walker 44's are, uh, cannons, they're enormous.
Um, there's no getting away from it,
and I think they weigh about seven or eight pounds each.
These are things that he lived with
for many, many, many, many years, they're old friends.
So we were able to source an officer's sword from the Civil War.
From the antique dealer, I saw the nicks on the blade,
I thought maybe it was just a kid having fun
banging it against the wall.
And then I noticed on the handle,
it's actually been used as defense.
Double gun belt, as we can see in the comic.
I think most fans will see this
and think that you know we totally nailed it.
They've aged my face.
This isn't how old I normally look,
I'm really at spritely 25.
They've put weathering all over my face and my eyes
to give that just lived-in quality.
WAGNER: I think of his character as a man who's seen too much.
But it's really based on the coats they were wearing during the Civil War,
it ended only 15 years before Ratwater.
[GIRL LAUGHING]
Hi!
Can I borrow your vest?
MCTAVISH: We've come to the school
and the shadow falls across them.
I honestly thought, well,
that can't be the Saint of Killers.
But it is and he does kill those children.
They're back weighted,
so when these things come tumbling
out of the cowboy's makeshift bag,
they'll actually feel like they have mass and weight
and they hobble out and of course they'll leave a trail of blood,
and it will be pretty visceral.
He's a force of nature, he is a killing machine
based out of great anger and grief.
He can join us all in hell.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Alright then.
I've been here for a few weeks now,
and all I've been waiting for is the chance to get this on
and get inside there and do that.
- [GUNSHOT] - [MAN GROANS]
The actual killing takes place with me as essentially the camera.
The actual push in with all our stunts getting shot
is about a 14-second move.
Everything has to be choreographed,
no one can be late, no one can be early or we'll miss it.
For the one where we're squibbing nine people,
there was questions you know if we we're hitting anything else,
you know like the bar, bottles, or anything breaking in the background.
The response we got is as okay, does not miss,
so everybody dies.
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Not only are squibs are going off,
but we've got breakaway tables that are light that trips,
we've got the bar shaking, we've got bottles droppin',
there's a lot of elements there.
We use a CGI stunt crop,
where we put green on the tip and we slice.
MAN: 3, 2, 1.
When I was a kid that was the coolest character
- I ever read, period. - Yeah.