Last year, we brought you a very cool CG Animated proof-of-concept short film for a Sci-Fi action-adventure feature film trilogy directed by David Weinstein from Black Sun Entertainment, entitled Azureus Rising. The film went on to earn Weinstein the #4 spot on the end of year industry polls for aspiring filmmakers.
Azureus Rising
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Over the past year David noticed a flood of overly polished and cheesy costumed superhero movies. This raised the question, “Why isn’t anyone doing more serious, grounded and dramatic toned superhero genre films? Movies like Unbreakable and Batman Begins did well at the box office and audiences and fans loved them”. This inspired David to contact friend and writer Shintaro Shimosawa about a new film concept.
Weinstein said,
“I told Shin about a unique superhuman power concept that I had been playing with visually in my mind. I wanted to...
Azureus Rising
Click here to view the embedded video.
Over the past year David noticed a flood of overly polished and cheesy costumed superhero movies. This raised the question, “Why isn’t anyone doing more serious, grounded and dramatic toned superhero genre films? Movies like Unbreakable and Batman Begins did well at the box office and audiences and fans loved them”. This inspired David to contact friend and writer Shintaro Shimosawa about a new film concept.
Weinstein said,
“I told Shin about a unique superhuman power concept that I had been playing with visually in my mind. I wanted to...
- 7/7/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
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