While it was announced last month that Tim Burton would be involved in some capacity with a MONSTERPOCALYPSE movie, it wasn’t yet confirmed that he would direct. After all, the man is attached to a billion other projects at the moment (with DARK SHADOWS seemingly being front and center). But Slashfilm had a sit-down with producer Roy Lee, who spilled some beans about this wild flick, and revealed that Burton is indeed the guy planning to sit in the director’s chair… It also turns out that this might be the greatest film ever made.
Here is, as Slashfilm says, the CliffsNotes version of the interview:
* John August is writing the screenplay right now, consulting with
the game’s creator Matt Wilson (who is also a co-producer)
* Tim Burton is developing the project to direct
* Being developed as a 3D movie
* It could hit theaters by the end of 2012
* Will not feature other properties like Voltron
* The plot involves giant monsters who attack earth. After the
humans fight back, the monsters retreat, but it is quickly discovered
that they didn’t leave, but instead burrowed underground and are
sending some sort of signal into space. The humans prepare for a
possible future attach and developed giant robots that will fight the
monsters if and when they return.
* Most of the movie is going to be during that battle between the
giant robots and the giant monsters.
* Tim Burton is developing the look for the monsters with Ken
Ralston, four time Academy Award winner who has been involved with the
visual effects on films such as Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Back
to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cocoon, Dragonslayer,
Star Wars trilogy
* The monsters and robots are each the size of a very tall building.
* The robots are controlled by a crew inside of each one of these
robots, and we’ll be seeing the battles from the inside of the bridge
and the outside
To read the entire interview, head on over HERE, but really, what more do you need? “Monsters and Robots the size of tall buildings fighting each other”. You’ve got my $12. (Yes, I realize that this could suck on a massive scale, but let’s try not to be cynical for once and dream big, eh?)