Scale issues of a different kind plagued Yuricich and company when a dynamic zero-gravity rescue sequence (dubbed "Miller's Crossing") was rewritten after the miniatures were constructed. In the scene, Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), who is doing a spacewalk on the tail of the Lewis & Clark, crosses to the Event Horizon in time to rescue the suit-less Justin (Jack Noseworthy) as he erupts into space from an airlock. "In scale, Miller probably travels over a 300' area," Yuricich observes. "We did many cuts of him traversing the outside of the ship on the center section, which is between the five 3,000' long corridors that connect the tail to the cross-beam containing the bridge and the three Containment chambers."
In the toughest of these shots, which were added at the last minute, the camera rotates within the ship's five columns as Miller rushes toward the airlock. After Fishburne (in his 65-pound spacesuit) was photographed against greenscreen on a portion of the Event Horizon set, Yuricich had to duplicate those same moves on a 1/72-scale miniature of the ship's corridor section. He explains, "The live-action motion-control shot started with the camera upside-down and mounted on a Gazelle motion-control arm, going through about a 165-degree move with a wide-angle lens. We then repeated the same 165-degree rotation with the same Gazelle arm in the 1/72-scale miniature but there was no room to get a camera in! The five corridors formed a pentagram shape, so when the camera was inside there, we had a couple of columns in our way. It was too cost-prohibitive to build another model, so we cut the miniature in half to allow the camera magazine to fit as it rotated. It was really an obstacle course, but [motion-control director of photography] David K. Stewart [ASC] shot it in two passes. In the end, a live-action, 1:1 man appears to dive down through the columns and run on the inner surface of the five corridors. It's not real, but it looks cool."
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