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Jackson Talks 'District 9', 'The Hobbit', 'Tintin' and 'The Lovely Bones'
Source: Coming Soon
Coming Soon attended the District 9 screening, where the film's producer, Peter Jackson, had a hefty Q&A afterward.
Here are a few of the highlights:
- District 9 was advertised as being a low budget film, but it doesn't look like one at all. Between major CGI scenes and heavy action, this looked like a very expensive film. However, Peter Jackson confirmed it cost only $30 million. That's astounding considering what we saw. The low cost of filming in South Africa, the use of an effects house in Vancouver for all the aliens shots, and no big name actors kept the cost down.
- All the aliens in District 9 were CGI. They had some practical ones made for closeups, but they opted to go entirely CGI.
- Since District 9 was low budget, they decided to cut loose on the action and get the hard R rating on the gore and killed humans.
- The script for The Hobbit is 3 weeks away from having a first draft. No casting has been done yet because they need to finish the script first. But they have discussed thoughts on casting. He stated that they are writing standout personalities for the dwarves and they are still evolving. He anticipated 4 or 5 standouts among them and mentioned that the actors who will portray them will have quite a physical challenge with the makeup and shooting on locations. Jackson said he had such an easy time slipping back into Middle Earth that he almost regretted handing over the directing reigns!
- Steven Spielberg just finished his first cut of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Jackson will be heading home after Comic-Con and will see it for the first time. He has not started a script for the second film yet. The Tintin stories he's eyeing are "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "The Prisoners of the Sun."
- Jackson showed some assembled footage for The Lovely Bones, opening December 11th. The full trailer will be released online August 6th and will appear on prints of Julie & Julia.
Coming Soon attended the District 9 screening, where the film's producer, Peter Jackson, had a hefty Q&A afterward.
Here are a few of the highlights:
- District 9 was advertised as being a low budget film, but it doesn't look like one at all. Between major CGI scenes and heavy action, this looked like a very expensive film. However, Peter Jackson confirmed it cost only $30 million. That's astounding considering what we saw. The low cost of filming in South Africa, the use of an effects house in Vancouver for all the aliens shots, and no big name actors kept the cost down.
- All the aliens in District 9 were CGI. They had some practical ones made for closeups, but they opted to go entirely CGI.
- Since District 9 was low budget, they decided to cut loose on the action and get the hard R rating on the gore and killed humans.
- The script for The Hobbit is 3 weeks away from having a first draft. No casting has been done yet because they need to finish the script first. But they have discussed thoughts on casting. He stated that they are writing standout personalities for the dwarves and they are still evolving. He anticipated 4 or 5 standouts among them and mentioned that the actors who will portray them will have quite a physical challenge with the makeup and shooting on locations. Jackson said he had such an easy time slipping back into Middle Earth that he almost regretted handing over the directing reigns!
- Steven Spielberg just finished his first cut of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Jackson will be heading home after Comic-Con and will see it for the first time. He has not started a script for the second film yet. The Tintin stories he's eyeing are "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "The Prisoners of the Sun."
- Jackson showed some assembled footage for The Lovely Bones, opening December 11th. The full trailer will be released online August 6th and will appear on prints of Julie & Julia.
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Comment by legend26 on July 26, 2009 at 10:10am -
i really cant wairt for district 9, it looks outstanding
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Comment by Voytek Pavlik on July 25, 2009 at 10:09am -
BTW
What's all with that whining about Halo movie? What? Will you all cry out loud if your favourite [overated] game won't be adapted?
AWWWW. What a shame!
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Comment by Voytek Pavlik on July 25, 2009 at 10:06am
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Hehe.
Take THAT Michael Bay!
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Comment by Random Guy on July 25, 2009 at 9:39am -
Not entirely Darthnazgul.Peter Jackson said in an interview with IGN.com that if it ever gets booted back up again, that he'd be up for helping with the Halo movie again.
Interview => http://media.movies.ign.com/media/040/040236/vids_1.html
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Comment by Darthnazgul on July 25, 2009 at 7:16am -
The Halo movie is out of the picture, at least with Peter Jackson.
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Comment by Chaser on July 24, 2009 at 10:55pm -
District 9 looks absolutely amazing. Cannot wait to go see that.
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Comment by DeathMetalMike on July 24, 2009 at 10:46pm -
VV Only if you aren't a Tintin fan like me :D
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Comment by Dr. Detfink on July 24, 2009 at 10:17pm -
I think Jesse was just saying he has high hopes for Del Toro who directs the Hobbit.
Peter Jackson is doing a lot of producing. He's fast becoming the Spielberg of New Zealand.
Any one disturbed by the title "The Seven Crystal Balls"?
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Comment by bot60 on July 24, 2009 at 9:50pm -
guillermo? nothin was about him its peter jackson
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Comment by Capn' Cutler on July 24, 2009 at 9:48pm
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Pretty cool on TINTIN. Would like to see Jackson do "The Seven Crystal Balls". What Del Toro up to while waiting for the Hobbit Script?
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