Last month, my man Eric gave us the sad news that we were going to have to wait a little longer to catch Alexandre Aja’s PIRANHA 3D on the big screen. Instead of this coming summer, we now have to wait until March 19, 2010 before we catch the underwater carnage. What sucks even more is that we never got a solid reason for the move. Well…
At least now that particular mistake has been mended by Aja himself. Here is what the director (right) said recently in an interview, regarding his film’s date shift: “We pushed production back to spring for weather reasons and location reasons. There’s so many problems that we’re going to have to solve. After doing a movie with mirrors where it was kind of like a nightmare to avoid all the reflections, making a movie in 3D underwater and on the water is going to be the biggest challenge.”
Okay, that’s sounds like a feasible explanation. At least the date wasn’t shifted because of script rewrites. I truly appreciate Aja as a filmmaker. I honestly can say that I’ve enjoyed every one of his previous films. Of course, some were better than others, but the quality and imagination and gore were always there. The man knows his horror and it sounds like he’s taking the same carefully constructed approach with PIRANHA. Check out what else he had to say during his interview:
“Something I’ve been trying to do for almost ten years now is make movies where the audience is not watching a story or watching some actors, but where the audience is crossing the screen and getting on the other side of the mirror, if you will, and lives the nightmare of the screen with the protagonist. When James Cameron said that he wanted to go back and reinvent 3D technology, I always thought with my writing and producing partner that it would be the best tool to create the best horror movie. When people are a version of the audience inside the movie, what is the best thing in 3D to create the full-immersion? I think it’s only logical to use the horror genre for 3D to become even more efficient.”
Now there’s a man with his horror head screwed on just right!
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