He also lent his skills to the Ryan Reynolds blockbuster movies Deadpool and Deadpool 2, where the props and budgets came in on a massive scale. Wagner also was Props Master for 2021 releases Antlers and the GI Joe saga Snake Eyes. Wagner compares West Kootenay to the Weta of B.C., a New Zealand organization that is a standard bearer for creativity and innovation in visual effects and animation. “I’m sitting here in Trail and all of a sudden I’ve had I don’t even know how many million people view something that came from my hands and is now involved with this film.” 1 in South Africa and Canada – everywhere. lab, but a variety of rings for the characters, customized to suit the ages of each member of the family.ĭurkin, needless to say, is pleasantly surprised at the film’s success. It just means it’s actually used as part of the story line.”ĭurkin designed and fashioned not only the hero ring in the Lauener Bros. “This ring was going to get some screen time, so they term that a ‘hero prop’. Yang to another character, Nina Dobrev,” explained Durkin. “He came to me, during COVID, about a year ago, and he said he had an upcoming Netflix piece of work to do, and part of the script was there was an engagement ring that was going to be passed from Jimmy O. Jewelry in Trail to create the family’s prop rings also known as ‘hero’ rings. Wagner recruited Paul Durkin from Lauener Bros. “Due to COVID, I was able to prep from my home in Rossland for three weeks.”įor the production of Love Hard, Wagner brought Greater Trail talent on board, and it was their contributions that made the prospect of an industry in the area more realistic. “I’m working with producers to try to bring some projects out to the area,” said Wagner.
His most recent film, the Netflix movie Love Hard, rocketed to the number-1 viewed movie on Netflix after its Nov.
A Rossland Props Master is creating a buzz about bringing more movie biz to the West Kootenay.Īs a Props Master or Props Buyer, Paul Wagner organizes the props department on movies and TV productions, and designs, researches, sources, buys, builds, monitors, and selects the props for a variety of genres.īut Wagner would like to do it more often from his Rossland residence.