Interview with Zack Snyder on Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Behind the Scenes of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Judging from the looks of the behind-the-scenes featurette, the animation Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole may stand on two faces of the coin --- either it would be really the awesome movie or the really sucky movie. Let's just hope that it becomes a really awesome one!
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Photo Scoop -- Barran
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Official Trailer
Official Trailer for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSgxXTc_vI
New Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Poster
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.
According to CinemaBlend, The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole has released a new poster. This is going to be exciting!
Zack Snyder Interview on Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Legend of the Guardians Director Zack Snyder and Producer Deborah Snyder
Why the name change?
Zack Snyder: "I think that we just found that Guardians of Ga'Hoole was a little hard for people. When we started testing the movie, people were having a little bit of a hard time with it. We had gotten so used to it that it was no big deal."Deborah Snyder: "They couldn't really pronounce it. They thought it was like 'a ghoul' or something. That wasn't really the connotation we wanted."
Zack Snyder: "And so legend is kind of what the movie's about. We talked about the movie's all about Soren's sort of journey to find whether the Guardians are real. And so that whole idea of this legend becoming real seemed to make sense for us. I kind of like the name."
What about the style of the animation?
Zack Snyder: "Yeah, the style, I really wanted to do something epic and something beautiful. I wasn't really interested in making a cartoon, you know? And so I guess that's where the style evolved from. And Animal Logic, who had done Happy Feet - who is the animation studio that I had worked with on 300 - really good friends of mine, when we talked about how we could kick it up a notch and sort of take it to the next level, they had been developing this software for the way that the feathers sort of intertwine. They'd really been able to make an amazing, amazing technology."
Deborah Snyder: "Even how they rendered the backgrounds – it's all based on Tasmania. We went out with a Red camera in a helicopter and took surveys of the landscape to incorporate it into what ended up being Ga'Hoole."
The massive voice cast of this - whose performance should we really look forward to? Who really stands out?
Zack Snyder: "They're all so good. Jim Sturgess, of course, is Soren. Helen Mirren, you can always look for."
Deborah Snyder: "She's an amazing villain."
Zack Snyder: "But to me Soren's mentor is played by Geoffrey Rush and he does an amazing job. Geoffrey is awesome. He really kills it."
Your next movie Sucker Punch is in 3D but you didn't film it in 3D. How is that going?
Zack Snyder: "I think it's going to be cool. We actually started talking about it, like what to do, and I was like, 'Well, if we're going to do a 3D version I really want to use the 3D to tell the story.' Because it's part of the…the movie is so emotional and so immersive that I wanted the 3D to actually help tell the story. So that's what we're working on now, trying to make the 3D part of the storytelling experience."
Deborah Snyder: "And we have time on our hands because we finished shooting in January. We don't come out until next March, so we have the time to spend to get it right and to work on the visual effects. We really planned for this for a while."
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Synopsis
Acclaimed filmmaker, Zack Snyder, makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” based on the beloved Guardians of Ga’Hoole books by Kathryn Lasky. The epic film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.
While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, to fly and to steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences --- causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the Legendary Guardians --- Soren’s very hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.
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