Her er en interessant passage vedr. Black Angel fra Roger Christians AmA:
[–]hllimes1973 42 points 4 days ago You say you want to bring it [Black Angel, red.
] back to the physical real action of older films, like Conan the Barbarian and Excalibur. I love that. Do you expect this will require more money due to the greater need for rehearsal and choreography, or do you expect that the less spent on CG will offset it? Can't wait to be a part of the indiegogo!
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[–]Roger_Christian[S] 76 points 4 days ago Thank you so much for your support!
And I'm SO happy that I'm touching people, because I am an audience member. I sit in cinemas, and I know what's missing. And quite honestly - I love huge - Super-Man, and Iron Man, and Pink Man, and whatever-Man - I love these films. You go to the cinema, you get blasted by sound and visuals and everything.
And then you wait for the next one, and you get a huge blast, and hide.
And I love that.
BUT. EXCALIBUR has stayed with people all of this time. So has the original CONAN.
John Boorman - I call him one of the great filmmakers of Britain- and to me, he was one of the British filmmakers with balls, because he made so many REALLY interesting movies.
This was around EXCALIBUR - when he'd seen BLACK ANGEL, he asked myself and the director of photography down to Pinewood Studios, and he showed my short film to his entire crew, and then stood at the end and said "That's what I want!"
And then Roger Pratt, the DP, was almost in the toilet, and I had little bits of film left over from EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and only 25,000 pounds, and I had an advantage - that I had a crew of 9 people, we had one camper wagon, a little one. I could go up dirt roads where NOBODY could go, and find amazing locations.
And I said "John, you're going to have a crew of 100, or 200 people, and you're going to have food trucks, and lights, and generators, and all of that stuff."
And he said "Well, that's true indeed."
But they were very kind. And the DP and the various design people said "No, no, we know what John wants!"
I put my costumes together with no money, we just made it up!
And I'm absolutely going to even the way STAR WARS was made - we had NO MONEY.
I had to invent the technique of using scrap to make all the sets and things, because we had no money. It was partly because i thought I could make them old and used like that, but it also cost me next to nothing. So I could fill the sets with these.
ALIEN was the same, you know. It was made for very little money. And I look at the first JURASSIC PARK, and that's the one people really remember - and Spielberg only had 75 CGI shots, and the rest of it, he had to get it to look real.
And I'm going to back to use those techniques.
So I have to have some CGI - because I have a flying demon in mine - I'll use CGI for that, but I'm going absolutely down and dirty. And it will be a quarter of a price to make this epic than if I were using CGI - going to REAL locations, at the right time of year, and I'll be using stunt coordinators, and I'm going to have the fights look so real that you can smell the blood and the sweat and the tears.
That's my goal.
That's what we're going to do with this.
[–]Roger_Christian[S] 38 points 4 days ago So I'm very low budget!
So that's why this small IndieGogo amount - this will help fund the Undead, making a few of those, it's all going up on the screen. I need whatever help I can get!