Lockwood & Co showrunner Joe Cornish reveals inspiration behind terrifying ghosts-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Lockwood & Co showrunner Joe Cornish has detailed the vision behind the ghouls that are haunting London.

The Netflix drama focuses on a trio of precocious young ghost detectives Lockwood (Cameron Chapman), Lucy (Ruby Stokes) and George (Ali Hadji-Heshmati), who work for the same agency.

Using their sixth sense, they track down ghouls, who have the power to kill humans with their ‘ghost-touch’, and exterminate them one by one.

But their efforts are often thwarted by DEPRAC officer Inspector Barnes (Ivanno Jeremiah) and rival agency the Fittes Agency.

As they help terrified civilians exorcise their homes, the pals encounter their fair share of fiendish ghouls, including the worst – a type 3 ghost – and a squad of dead monks, to name but a few.

Joe, 54, who was also behind The Adam and Joe Show, spoke to Metro.co.uk about his source of inspiration for the horrifying specters, who have a tendency to jump out of walls.

Lockwood, Lucy and George team up and tackle ghosts haunting homes (Credits: Parisa Taghizadeh)

George’s special skill is heavily researching the haunted spots (Credits: Parisa Taghizadeh)

The self-professed 80s film fanatic explained: ‘We took inspiration from Victorian spirit photography. We wanted our ghosts to feel like they could be a branch of actual physics.

‘[That’s] because Jonathan Stroud, the author of the books was very, very thoughtful and clever in the way he devised this pariscience; this taxonomy of ghosts.

‘We refer to turn-of-the-century photography, and all ghosts are made of ectoplasm – but they can be different densities, different turbulence, different colours, so they all adhere to a specific set of pretend scientific rules.

Joe Cornish adapted the Jonathan Stroud books for Netflix (Picture:REX/Shutterstock)

Lucy is one of the most gifted ghost detectives and is learning how to use her talent (Picture: Parisa Taghizadeh)

‘But within those rules, we can get a lot of different shapes, sizes, variety, and hopefully levels of terror.’

While the ghosts were added in post-production, thanks to CGI wizardry, Ali revealed that the cast were given an insight into how they would look prior to filming.

He said: ‘We actually knew what every ghost would look like before fighting it, because they would someone, usually the VFX manager, would come with an iPad showing us what the ghosts would look like.

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Cameron added: ‘But there were a couple of times where it was: use your imagination and you’re swinging your sword at it.

‘But the stunt guys would show you exactly how they’ve envisioned you dealing with that problem.’

Lockwood & Co is available to stream on Netflix.

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