From worstpreviews, Sci-Fi Wire spoke to Richard Taylor, the visual-effects supervisor of the upcoming "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" film. Taylor revealed that the weapons and miniatures built by his New Zealand-based Weta Workshop were more detailed and elaborate than any they've ever done before. "We had two and a half months to deliver two-and-a-half-thousand weapons," Taylor said in an interview on the set in Prague.
Although the weapons for the first film, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," were created by hand, the sheer scale of the project this time called for a more automated approach. "We've pushed ourselves further than we ever have before with our weaponry," he added.
Taylor, who has also created designs for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong," also supervised the building of several miniatures for "Prince Caspian," including the imposing castle of King Miraz, the oppressive ruler of Narnia and the uncle of the title character.
"The miniatures, although there are not a huge number of them, are the ... biggest and most challenging ones we've built to date, and we've built some pretty challenging miniatures and this is going to outdo them all," said Taylor. "The miniature we're doing for Miraz's castle is 24-scale. [The] village and exterior location [is] at 100th scale, and both miniatures are ... colossal things."
He added that the set's stairs are specifically designed for the action of what filmmakers call 'the raid,' in which the Narnians storm the castle. "They get surrounded by archers, all crossbowmen, and quite unpleasant things happen," said production designer Roger Ford.
5 comments:
I wish they weren't filming the Narnia books. A strange desire, I know, but there it is. I understand that I do not have to go see them (and I haven't) but somehow the whole thing bothers me. Who says there has to be a big expensive profitable CGI-heavy epic movie series of everything anyway?
Yeah, I can't get excited about this either. Seriously, was tghe world demanding this? I know the first movie made tons of dough but I don't get a sense that kids really care all that much.
Plus it's a RELIGIOUS TRACT
It's funny how the movie totally downplayed the religious nonsense,I mean, Santa Clause even makes an appearance, but yeah, those books are super religious.
"Who says there has to be a big expensive profitable CGI-heavy epic movie series of everything anyway?"
Hear hear! I've never been super fond of Prince Caspian anyway. I just reread it last year, actually, and my opinion holds. It's dreary somehow.
Post a Comment