In an interview with MTV about PIRANHA, Alexandre Aja talks about the 3D conversion, the plethora of boobs and the massive amount of blood. Here are a few excerpts:
“PIRANHA is going to be the next step for them, where they can enjoy the 3-D in an even more gimmicky and over-the-top way, where much more things are going to come out of the screen. I understand why James Cameron in “Avatar” didn’t want to make the 3-D gimmicky, and he was right. But we are making a piranha-attacking-spring-break movie, so we are going to go for the huge on-the-screen effects and fish attacking the audience. ”
He also defends the controversial 3D conversion process, which is getting ALICE IN WONDERLAND and CLASH OF THE TITANS a lot of flack. “We were going to shoot with the camera system Cameron used, and we found out that, of course, we don’t have the same budget as an “Avatar” or as much time. And shooting on the water with a real 3-D camera brings some very big restrictions in terms of dealing with reflections. But I was very, very skeptical about the 3-D conversion, because it felt so unnatural to create 3-D when it’s flat at the beginning. And I saw a lot of demo reels, like some of the James Cameron “Titanic” conversion scenes, some of “Star Wars,” and 20 minutes of Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” fully converted into 3-D, and that was simply the best 3-D I’ve ever seen. Period.”
The best quote, however, is this one: “There’s going to be 3-D double-D boobs!”
‘Nuff said. Check out the entire interview HERE.