The star of 2001: A Space Odessey is clearly the Star Child. Believe it or not, the original prop is still out there and it looks pretty good after all of these years. These days it is part of a traveling Stanley Kubrick Exhibition. Check out Atlas Obscura for all kinds of fun facts about the Star Child. It is well worth your time.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the greatest sci-fi film ever made, Space Odyssey is the behind the scenes account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created the masterpiece known as 2001: A Space Odyssey. This book features extensive interviews with Clarke, Kubrick’s widow, visual effects supervisor Doug Trumbull, and others who worked on the film. Explore how this movie evolved to become an instant classic.
We get some new footage in this Star Trek Discovery Behind The Scenes Featurette. You’ll see Klingon ships, space battles, and even a Tribble shows up because why not? They’ve already got Harry Mudd, the mirror universe and Sarek after all. Star Trek: Discovery airs this Sunday on CBS All Access.
L to R: Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and a Porg
Meet the cutest creatures to hit the Star Wars universe since the Ewoks. Porgs are the small penguin-like creatures who live on Ach-To, the planet where Luke Skywalker is. Writer/director Rian Johnson gave Entertainment Weekly more details about the Porgs. They were inspired by the puffins that inhabit the island where they filmed. However these cute creatures aren’t the only new and unusual creatures in the movie. Another alien species can be found at the primeval Jedi temple. They are called The Caretakers.
“They’re kind of these sort of fish-bird type aliens who live on the island,” Johnson says. “They’ve been there for thousands of years, and they essentially keep up the structures on the island.”
“They’re all female, and I wanted them to feel like a remote sort of little nunnery,” Johnson says. “Neal Scanlan’s crew designed them, and costume designer Michael Kaplan made these working clothes that also reflected sort of a nun-like, spartan sort of existence.”
I’m liking these little touches. If they treat the rest of the movie with this much care, we are in for a great treat.
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Lucasfilm and Disney have released a very cool behind-the-scenes video for Star Wars: The Last Jedi! It was shared at D23 by director Rian Johnson and now it’s online for everyone to enjoy. There’s a lot going on here including many new scenes to enjoy. This should get you pumped to see this movie.
Pixar’s cars franchise isn’t exactly my cup of tea, but had the batmobile shown up, I would have checked out Cars 3 for sure. Well, that almost happened, believe it or not. In a recent interview with Screen Junkies, director Brian Fee talks about an early draft where Lightning McQueen goes to a Hollywood party that would have been full of movie stars, including two different generations of Batmobiles. Obviously, that scene didn’t make the final film, but it would have been a very cool moment. You can check out the interview below.
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If you enjoyed Arrival, Oblique FX has released The Making Of Arrival video showing off the VFX work on the film. Many Bothans died to- I mean, a lot of work went into telling this story on the big screen and much of that was special effects work. This video gives us a look at what was real and what was not. They did an amazing job on this film and without these effects it would not have been the awesome movie that it is. Many people consider this to be the best Sci-Fi movie of 2016 after all.
Okay, so Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice didn’t go down well with many of the fans, but I think we can all agree that we were impressed by the visual effects. The effects work was simply top notch and there are more effects in the movie than you might think. This fun video will show you a lot of it and you will be impressed all over again. Whether you like the movie or not, the work that went into it must be respected.
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The new Ghost in the Shell movie looks like the future cyberpunk movie we have been craving for a long time and now we also get to take a look at a book that is all about what it took to bring this world to the big screen. The Art of Ghost in the Shell is written by David S. Cohen with a foreword from WETA Workshop’s Richard Taylor.
This book is a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie was made and how they created the aesthetic look of the film. From what we can see so far, it looks every bit as intriguing as the movie itself.
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Mike Seymour of FX Guide and Wired takes a look at the special effects used in director Justin Lin‘s Star Trek Beyond. He covers everything from the digital construction of the Starship Enterprise, to the extraterrestrials themselves. This movie had some amazing effects, so this is a fun watch. They certainly put a lot of work into this one.
