Rain has begun to come down in earnest, pooling in the muddy streets and making the extras and the stuntmen shiver.
Rosamund Pike, who starred in Gone Girl, is smudged with soot. The actors who wander the Two Rivers are made up to match. Every house-interior and exterior-has been charred enough so that it shows on camera. There are holes in roofs, artfully destroyed beams. The town's inn, an intricately rendered two-story building, is now blackened, its left side plunged into spiky rubble: Smoke machines give the impression that it is still smoldering. Then, a few days back, the producers and set dressers of Amazon's The Wheel of Time burned it down. Not long ago, this quarry, 40 kilometers outside Prague, held a carefully built fake town called the Two Rivers.
