The 1917 Halifax Explosion — the world’s largest accidental, non-nuclear explosion — killed 1,782 people and injured an estimated 9,000 others, devastating the Richmond district of Nova Scotia’s capital in the process. Upon hearing the extraordinary account of a sailor who survived the disaster, flying 2 kilometers through the air before landing uphill naked and unharmed, the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning duo Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis asked themselves, “What was the trip like?”
Blending 2D and 3D animation with live-action stock footage, “The Flying Sailor” telescopes time, expanding the few seconds the titular sailor spends tumbling across the sky into a seven-minute examination of the meaning of existence.
“Just the thought of being that guy in the sky is mind-blowing all on its own, so we loved it and then we put it away for a really, really long time,” Forbis told IndieWire, explaining how they were initially intrigued by the structure of the narrative.
Blending 2D and 3D animation with live-action stock footage, “The Flying Sailor” telescopes time, expanding the few seconds the titular sailor spends tumbling across the sky into a seven-minute examination of the meaning of existence.
“Just the thought of being that guy in the sky is mind-blowing all on its own, so we loved it and then we put it away for a really, really long time,” Forbis told IndieWire, explaining how they were initially intrigued by the structure of the narrative.
- 12/15/2022
- by Jennifer Wolfe
- Indiewire
Ranking high on the list of the most popular movies that never made it into production is director Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novella At the Mountains of Madness, which at one time was set up at Universal with Tom Cruise signed on to play the lead role and James Cameron producing. That project fell apart because del Toro intended to make an R-rating film and Universal insisted that it be rated PG-13. That was eleven years ago, but del Toro has never given up on the idea that he is going to bring a version of At the Mountains of Madness to the screen someday. And during a recent interview with IndieWire, he revealed that he has thought about making it as a stop-motion animated film.
Del Toro told IndieWire that he has talked to visual effects artist Phil Tippett, director of the bizarre stop-motion animated film Mad God,...
Del Toro told IndieWire that he has talked to visual effects artist Phil Tippett, director of the bizarre stop-motion animated film Mad God,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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