10 Movies That Had An Insane Amount Of Attention To Detail

Bending the rules a little bit and taking the two films as one, the level of detail given to the production design across the final two Harry Potter films was truly staggering.

For the finale, the costume designer worked overtime in order to dress the several hundred strong cast and extras for the battle scenes. On top of the hundreds of uniforms and costumes needed, each and every wand seen and used in the films were custom made; after all, as Ollivander says, no two wands are alike. Not to be outdone, the prop masters also worked their fingers to the bone by crafting some 210,000 coins and several one-of-a-kind artefacts just to decorate the background for the Gringotts bank scene.

But the thing that was exceptionally crazy was building Bill and Fleur's cottage. Despite only being featured for a few minutes in each film, an astonishing amount of work went into it. It was built at Leavesden studios in England before being moved via tractor to a beach in Wales and carried up to the dunes by the crew. From there, over 4,500 giant scallop shells were used for the roof, hundreds of turfs of grass was used for the surroundings, and the house was held down from the winds thanks to over 10 tonnes of water weighing it down.