Since its 1985 arrival within the downtown skyline, and given its distinctive form, many Atlantans inform guests who’re searching for instructions to search for the “pregnant constructing.” However for film followers all over the world, the late architect John Portman’s 52-story, 1,663-room atrium resort can be recognized for its starring function in such films because the Starvation Video games collection and the 2024 miniseries A Man in Full, plus a bevy of Marvel choices, from Spider-Man: Homecoming to Ms. Marvel to Loki. The resort’s suites had been additionally featured in Denzel Washington’s 2012 set-in-Atlanta thriller, Flight.
So how does an almost 40-year-old resort rating so many close-ups in Hollywood movies and TV initiatives? In line with Marquis director of gross sales and advertising and marketing Paul Buff, it’s a mixture of Portman’s iconic futuristic structure and a seasoned senior gross sales govt who retains an in depth eye on upcoming productions in Georgia.
“Our structure lends itself to a novel view for the digital camera lens,” says Buff. “Due to Mr. Portman’s imaginative and prescient and design, our resort has been portrayed in each present instances in addition to into the longer term.”
As one of many host accommodations for Dragon Con, the annual Labor Day weekend science fiction, fantasy, and comedian fan competition, it doesn’t harm the resort’s avenue cred that the Marquis doubles as each the Tribute Heart in The Starvation Video games and because the Time Variance Authority in Loki.
Film fan or not, anybody who has ever stepped contained in the resort’s foyer can attest to its visible majesty. Says Buff: “On any given day, our resort friends could be discovered wanting up into our 52-story atrium whereas pulling out their telephones to take photographs.”
This text seems in our November 2024 subject.
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