A number of small news items popped up this weekend and we wanted to let readers know about CGI in Evil Dead, GlaDOS in Pacific Rim, and what went wrong with the recent reboot of The Munsters:
Evil Dead: Fans were understandably skeptical when an Evil Dead remake was first announced, but the two trailer releases have received a great response and many are curious to see how it will turn out. One thing you won't have to worry about is terrible computer-generated effects in the movie. Here's what director Fede Alvarez told io9 during a recent interview:
"We didn't do any CGI in the movie. There's no CGI in the movie. Everything you will see is real, which was really demanding. This was a very long shoot, 70 days of shooting at night. There's a reason people use CGI it's cheaper and faster, I hate that. We researched a lot of magic tricks and illusion tricks. [Like] how you would make someone's arm disappear.
There's a moment where a girl goes through her arm with a kitchen knife — spoiler alert. And we knew since day one the camera would start wide, she goes for the knife, you see her arm, she starts going for it. And you think they're going to cut away at any moment, but we don't. She just goes for it and screams and the arm breaks and falls. So we really pushed the boundaries there, trying to create those illusions... It has a particularly bloody ending. The last scene is just...I want it to be the bloodiest scene, ever. And I think it is."
If you missed the most recent Evil Dead trailer release, watch it right now at: http://dailydead.com/watch-the-new-evil-dead-trailer/
Pacific Rim: Did you hear Portal's GlaDOS during the Pacific Rim teaser trailer? Guillermo del Toro confirmed that Valve allowed him to use it and that voice actress Ellen McLain is lending her voice to the film. The voice was more of an Easter egg for the trailer, however, and will be tweaked so that it doesn't sound exactly like the Portal or what you heard in the trailer. Here's what del Toro told the Toronto Sun:
“I wanted very much to have her, because I’m a big Portal fan... But just as a wink. She’s not cake-obsessed... She’s not out to destroy humanity.”
The Munsters: The latest reboot of The Munsters was not successful, but that doesn't mean they've given up on the series forever. NBC's Bob Greenblatt mentioned that they may try a reboot again at some point and talks about the recent attempt not working out:
Via Deadline: “I won’t say we won’t do another version of The Muensters again... We just decided that it didn’t hold together well enough to yield a series... It looked beautiful and original and creative, but it just all ultimately didn’t come together…, it just didn’t ultimately creatively all work.”
“We felt great about that cast... But we tried to make it not just a sitcom. We tried to make it an hour, which ultimately has more dramatic weight than a half-hour. It’s hard to calibrate how much weirdness vs. supernatural vs. family story. I just think we didn’t get the mix right.”
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