'Lost City of Z' Set Was Very Scary

While there's a general consensus that Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant was the film shoot from Hell, the adventure epic The Lost City of Z might give it a real run for its money. The film, directed by James Gray, had a six-week shoot in the jungles of Santa Marta, Colombia, for the scenes that depicted the Amazon rainforest where real-life adventurer Percy Fawcett once explored. The film is based off the book of the same name about Fawcett's repeated trips to the Amazon to find a hidden civilization, which he referred to as the "City of Zed."

Gray, for his part, was committed to shooting The Lost City of Z in remote forest locations; all the better to get a sense for what Fawcett and his teams had undergone in the early 20th century.

In a way, it worked. The cast and crew endured a ton of setbacks, ranging from flash floods and sweltering heat to very personal encounters with beetles and snakes. In notes provided to press before a screening of the film, here's some of the craziest, most horrific stories from the set.

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