How VisionQuest was made, from Disney’s production notes.
Vision works in a bar in Edinburgh. After a shift he steps into its refrigerator, shuts the doors and, unseen, withdraws into his Mindspace.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Ultron was not wiped out at the end of Age of Ultron: Vision held on to a backup and keeps it locked in the attic of his mind, reachable only by a lift.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
The Mindspace was built at Pinewood as seven fully practical rooms — kitchen, living room, dining room, entrance hall, corridor, boiler room and cinema — joined so the camera could move through them in one take.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Terry Matalas wanted the opposite of a stark-white sci-fi set: a lo-fi house where things are slightly off — a banister that is not quite a banister, a table set into a wall, a picture of flowers beside real flowers.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
More than 40 Vision-branded props were made for the Mindspace kitchen, among them Vision’s Mustard, Firewall Hot Sauce and Mindstone Soup. The books on the shelves are pieces of a hard drive, from malware to passwords.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Construction took 14 weeks and used flexible rubber wallpaper, mirrored floors and false-perspective corridors to get digital-looking distortion in camera.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
The Jacobean Hatfield House in Hertfordshire became Horton Manor, and White Waltham Airfield in Berkshire became Paladin’s jet hangar. Studio work was at Pinewood outside London.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Special effects supervisor Jonathan Barrass led more than 280 practical effects, including magnetic rigs for Vision’s flying and interactive LED reflections on the Mindspace walls.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
The most of any character. Costume designer Sarah Young drew on Amelia Earhart, wartime women pilots, Formula One branding and vintage aviation.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Matalas saw Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer in Peter Pan Goes Wrong on Broadway, thought of them as a modern Abbott and Costello, and cast them as D.U.M.-E. and U.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Ruaridh Mollica got the part from a self-recorded audition. Tommy turned out to be Scottish, so Mollica, raised in Scotland, kept his own accent.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
Matalas had worked with her on 12 Monkeys and says it was her voice he heard while writing. Todd Stashwick, Paladin, also comes from his 12 Monkeys and Star Trek: Picard casts.
Source: Disney UK production notes for VisionQuest
