8 episodes?
The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX
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Yeah, it's more of a miniseries than a full fledged series. I imagine that's because of the additional cost of the IMAX effects.
So 8 episodes plus the 2 hours in IMAX for a total of 10?
Crap, now I won't be able to ignore this one. Hell on Wheels is my favorite show of recent vintage.
Haven't been keeping up with this production. Will the first two episodes be aired on TV after the theatrical run?
No, the first two episodes of the eight are what's going to be released as an IMAX feature.
I don't think there's anyway they could get away with that today, and if they did it would an instant end to my interest in the series. I'm very, very much against the abusive training practices used on apes in entertainment, and would hate to see Marvel use them. Just to be clear, I'm not one of those hardcore PETA types whose against all animals in entertainment, it's just that the training of apes in particular is almost always highly abusive in order to actually get them to actually do what you want.Or maybe they could put a chimp in a costume too like they did for Muffet
And now I have the image of a Lockjaw-Daggett in my head.
Hugo - Muuuhhhffiiittt!!
Would they be able to do a mo-cap kind of thing with real bulldog for Lockjaw, or would he be to different from a normal one for that to work?
Wow, my interest in this just shot way up. I'm a huge fan of Hell on Wheels, and Mount's performance on the show as really good.
It'd be hard to scale down the interactions with other people and objects. Simpler just to let animators use footage of a bulldog for reference.
I think if you took the CGI budget and talent that Supergirl or The Flash is able to spread over 22 episodes and realize Martians and the Parasite and Dominators and gorilla invasions and so forth, and pack that down into just 8 episodes' worth of content, it would be well within the realm of possibility to handle Lockjaw and the other less humanoid Inhumans.
Spoilerage, I guess, if you're already planning to watch the series:
Maybe make a really top-notch animatronic ? Could inexpensively be incorporated into lots of episodes without needing CG.
Except for any running shots. Does Lockjaw run ?
You know, that's a great idea. CG is so fashionable that people tend to overlook that there's been a lot of advancement in the animatronics industry as well. (I read that the prequel to The Thing a few years back had really sophisticated animatronics made for it, but in post-production, the studio inexplicably replaced them all with worse-looking CGI.) If it's a character that's going to be around in the background a lot, it would make sense to have a physical animatronic on set.
The key to convincing visual effects is to use a mix of different techniques, the right method for the right shot. Jurassic Park relied mostly on lifelike animatronic dinosaurs, but switched to CGI for shots where they were walking or running full-length, jumping, fighting, etc.
Yes, because my winky emoticon clearly indicated that the use of animals in such a manner was (a) ethical, or (b) a worthwhile use of resources to re-create a Bulldog 10 times its normal size... it was ludicrous and cruel back then giving bizarre results and would be as useless now.
Frankly I love this idea. Farscape's Pilot character showed how much expression and depth one could get out of an animatronic. With 15 years in Special Effect advancements, coupled with some good CGI for "action" moments, this could be the best solution by far.
Medusa's hair is either going to be amazing, or amazingly daft. I look forward to enjoying and/or laughing at the results.
Hugo - Fascinated that they would cast such a strong actor for an (almost) silent role. But Anson Mount does do a nice a strong glower and gives strong taciturn mumbling
Sorry, I didn't realize the smilie indicated a joke, I thought you meant it was a great idea.
This would be perfect the Jim Henson Creature Shop.
Or put back in a practical pony tail...
I think the technology's there to do it reasonably well. The Expanse's first episode and its most recent episode both superimposed CGI hair on the Julie Mao character to simulate the appearance of hair wafting about in microgravity. It wasn't entirely convincing, but it was probably done with far less money than Marvel would have to spend. And this is one of those things where the budget of the IMAX episodes would let them invest in building a sophisticated digital model that they could then continue to use in the show.
Alternatively, it could be something you could puppeteer, with a mix of "tentacle" animatronics and digitally erased rods and wires.
Well, that's exactly why you need a strong actor -- someone who can convey volumes with just expression and body language. You have to be exceptionally good to do that well. I'm reminded of a realization I had about Martin Freeman while watching the second or third Hobbit movie -- that he is not just a brilliant actor, but a really brilliant reactor, incredibly expressive when he's listening to other actors talk. Reacting like that, keeping your performance interesting when the other person in a scene is doing the talking, is an important part of good acting. Playing Black Bolt is just doing that all the time.
The budget appears to be 80 million for eight episodes, so more than a regular TV budget.
ETA: Don't know the actor. Need to see him without a mustache to judge.
Yes. Supposedly, they'll add additional scenes on top of it to those episodes so it'll be a different experience to see it on TV.
^ That's good news...didn't want to be forced to schlep out to a theater just to know what was going on.
Wow, that is high.
He teleports.
Yeah, Lockjaw is an extremely lazy dog. There's no need to show him walking at any point.