Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” was a resourceful sci-fi endeavor with an $80 million production budget, but its visuals are on par with epic blockbusters that cost three times that amount. Rather than shoot on a studio backlot, the filmmaker behind “Godzilla” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” opted to shoot in eight different countries, including Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Japan.
For an all-out climatic action sequence set in Thailand, a village comes under attack by the U.S. Military as John David Washington’s protagonist defuses a bomb. Visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic (Ilm) Jay Cooper and supervising sound editor Erik Aadahl explain how the setpiece came together.
“There was nothing temped in, it was just production dialogue and nothing else,” Aadahl explained. “It was an amazing blank canvas to start working with. There were no visual effects, just a title that said ‘Tank on the Hill.
For an all-out climatic action sequence set in Thailand, a village comes under attack by the U.S. Military as John David Washington’s protagonist defuses a bomb. Visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic (Ilm) Jay Cooper and supervising sound editor Erik Aadahl explain how the setpiece came together.
“There was nothing temped in, it was just production dialogue and nothing else,” Aadahl explained. “It was an amazing blank canvas to start working with. There were no visual effects, just a title that said ‘Tank on the Hill.
- 10/4/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety - Film News
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