Development
The Wanting Mare is Bateman's first feature-length film; he did not attend film school, had no visual effects training, and worked independently on the film's development, part of which was funded through a campaign on the crowdsourcing website Indiegogo. [3] [4] Bateman credits the earliest inspirations of the film to be Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. [5] [6]
The film took over five years to make, and has over 500 visual effects shots. [7] [8] Cinematographer David A. Ross used a Sony A7SII with Anamorphic lenses. [9] Bateman shot much of the film in a storage unit in Paterson, New Jersey; [10] [11] while other shots were filmed along the coast of the northeastern United States and in Nova Scotia, Canada. [12]
The film was largely shot on green-screen [13] and composited in After Effects and Blender. [12] The film utilizes many digital matte paintings done by the director. [14]
During the five years of production, Bateman lived in the office space that was used to edit the film and create the visual effects. [13] During this time, the group of Bateman, David A. Ross, Z. Scott Schaefer, and Cassandra Louise Baker founded the visual effects company Maere Studios. [15] [14]
Shane Carruth was involved as an executive producer for a time, but he removed his name from the project in 2020 after accusations of abuse against him were made public. [16] [3] [17]
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