So the upcoming adaptation of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY isn’t exactly horror, but SciFi Wire posted some news about the flick today that is simply too good to ignore. In fact, I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy inside now. Why’s that you ask? Well read on:
[Producer] Robbie Stamp … told SCI FI Wire that the filmmakers strove to depict Adams’ bizarre world with as many practical effects as possible. “I think the guiding principle was to not do everything with [computer-generated imagery],” Stamp said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. “So there’s an awful lot of stuff that is done in-camera. We’ve got real creatures. [Director] Garth [Jennings] has used some of the oldest … filmmaking tricks in the book. … I think we wanted something which had a sort of a heart and soul and a charm to it. … [With] some of the bigger, huge CGI epics, … maybe just some of their heart and soul and fun has gone out of them.”
Amen, brother, amen! A filmmaker actually making an effort to return to practical effects over CGI? On a project this big? With this much expectation behind it? Has the world begun to right itself? Yes, my friends, I believe it has.
And to all you filmmakers out there obsessed with your pretty CGI effects (you know who you are), hey, they’re great to a point. I’ll give you that. But when you’re talking about the best way to give a scene some weight, some gravitas, some freakin’ balls…practical is the way to go.
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