Where is the river scenery depicted in the Terrence Malick film “The New World?
From the Production Notes for the press ” … One of the earliest challenges faced by the production team was determining where to shoot the film. Initially, they were skeptical they would be able to find an area that could adequately resemble the world which European settlers first encountered in America. We thought that in a million years theres no place left in the United States that looks as untouched as the James and Chickahominy Rivers would have been in 1607, says Green. We thought it would be in some mysterious place where no one lives, so we looked at obscure regions in Canada where there were hopefully untouched forests and rivers. But (production designer) Jack Fisk, who lives in Virginia, felt that we shouldnt go anywhere else until we saw where it all started. So Terry, Jack and I traveled to see the original site of James Fort, and to the Jamestown Settlement recreation nearby. Then we took a boat up the Chickahominy River to see how the landscape flowed, and we thought,
