- STAR WARS INTO DARKNESS
Recently IGN managed to get a hold of Star Wars director JJ
Abrams and they got him to speak about Mission Impossible and the new Star Wars
Into Darkness film and filming on IMAX. Here’s what he had to say:
IGN: We’ve been hearing
some rumblings about Christopher McQuarrie potentially directing Mission:
Impossible V. Anything you can say about that?
J.J. Abrams:
Yeah, we’re talking to Chris McQuarrie now. I would just say that he’s somebody
who -- he did some work on the last one we did [Mission: Impossible - Ghost
Protocol]. I’ve been a fan of his since The Usual Suspects. He’s just a
terrific guy, an incredible writer and a really wonderful director, so we’d be
lucky to get him.
IGN: I know better than
trying to ask any Star Trek story questions, but are you excited, with the IMAX
footage debut, that it’s at least going to give people all-new questions to bug
you about once they see the footage?
Abrams: You know,
I’m excited because we’ve been working on this for awhile, and the idea of
getting some of the movie out there to the world is going to be a real thrill
for us - and as always you just hope people will like what they see!
IGN: The IMAX footage in
Ghost Protocol was stunning - my personal favorite use of IMAX for a scripted
movie so far. What was it like on Trek to use that format?
Abrams: It was
amazing. Part of it was challenging because of the technical aspects of it, the
machinery of it. The cameras themselves are a little unwieldy and a little loud
and unpredictable. But then you go to dailies and you watch on this massive screen
these images that you’ve shot having been filmed on a negative that’s eight
times bigger than what you normally use, and you cannot believe how good it
looks. So that’s exciting! But unlike Ghost Protocol, a lot of what we shot is
integrated into special effects and visual effects in a way that I cannot wait
for people to see. I think it really is mind-blowing, how it looks. The IMAX
frame, I think, is really the best way to see a movie.
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