Netflix’s ‘Old Guard’ Was Built By a Post-Production Team Made Up of 85 Percent Women

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The streamer may launch a franchise driven by one of the most diverse behind-the-camera teams assembled for a comic book feature.

Long before Netflix revealed July 17 that its actioner The Old Guard was on track to become one of its most popular features, pacing to be viewed by 72 million households within its first month, the film had made notable strides behind the camera — including a postproduction team of about 85 percent women.

The film was led by helmer Gina Prince-Bythewood, who became the first Black woman to direct a Hollywood comic-book-themed movie, and Terilyn A. Shropshire, the first Black woman to edit one, and who has been collaborating with Prince-Bythewood for two decades, since the duo first teamed up on 2000’s Love & Basketball. Its VFX supervisor was Sara Bennett, one of only two women ever to have won an Oscar in VFX, for 2014’s Ex Machina, with other key work by cinematographer Tami Reiker (sharing DP duties with Barry Ackroyd), SFX supervisor Hayley Williams (Annihilation) and costume designer Mary Vogt (Crazy Rich Asians).

Prince-Bythewood notes that such a gender breakdown “doesn’t happen, or very rarely happens on any movie, but on an action film, I guarantee you that’s never happened before.”