Last night at the Visual Effects Society Awards, where he received the
Visionary Award, director J.J. Abrams spoke, while maintaining his mystery box
closed, about some aspects of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force
Awakens including the new lightsaber, but also about the recent announcement
that Simon Pegg had been co-tasked with the script of the next entry in the
Star Trek franchise.
One of the most talked about moments of the teaser was when the mysterious
character known as Kylo Ren turned on the new lightsaber.
"I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come
out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from
people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphics…I’ve
gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill
you and how it doesn’t make any sense. It’s been the funniest thing to
see the arguments that have developed over this thing."
Abrams also touched on the use of practical effects, and how he often used
CG to remove things instead off adding them.
"I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are
more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools
are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we
went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add
things."
However, the director does admit that there a large amount of CGI in the
The Force Awakens, but reiterates that they went practical every time they
could.
"There are
obviously an enormous amount of CG effects in the film, and I can’t wait for
you to see the combination. But it was very important that we build as many
sets as we could and that the film have a tangible, sort of authentic quality
that you believed that these things were actually happening in a real space
with real sunlight, if it was an exterior scene, or if we could build a big
portion of a scene and not have anything be blue screen, do it where we could. It was a very important piece of work."
Looking ahead to the
future of the franchise, Abrams confirms that he's very much involved with it
as an executive producer.
"I wouldn’t say 8 and 9 are my baby, Rian will be working at least on
8, but I’m executive producing those films, yeah."
Finally, it was recently announced that Simon Pegg and Doug Jun (Dark Blue)
had been tapped to pen the script for the upcoming Star Trek 3.
"[Pegg] and I
had talked quite a bit about story, he had a lot of wonderful ideas. It
just sort of felt obvious that he would be a wonderful person to work on the
story and help craft the story, so he’s working on it."
Source - Collider
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