Starring dave baptist (Guardians of the Galaxy, Dune), tape the army of the dead from Zack Snyder turned out the winner in the online voting that opened this year the Academy so that fans around the world choose your own favorite moviealthough he did not receive an Oscar award during the ceremony.
the movie that premiered last year on Netflix even triumphed over Spider-Man: No Way Homesurprising all the followers of the arachnid hero.
What makes it so special and unique? Ori Marmur, vice president of studio movies at Netflix, commented on what motivated them to launch the film project: “the army of the dead It’s a movie that just couldn’t let go after Zack Snyder proposed it to us in 2018. It was a fresh, bold, cutting-edge story and it had the potential to become something big. Netflix was the perfect place for this kind of original storytelling. And I definitely wanted to make sure I was able to share Zack’s vision with the world.”
Marmur believes that its success is due to the fact that it also combines different genres that captivate the audience. “Zombies, action, a great heist, suspense, horror and comedy… So whatever genre you want to watch, you’re sure to find some in this film.”
“Every aspect of this film is driven by Zack’s aesthetic and creative vision.something that I find quite peculiar and special. He not only participated in the script, production and direction of the film, he was also in charge of the cinematography (…) Both myself and the incredible crew on the film think we’ve done something pretty epic.”
Here are some curiosities surrounding the project whose sequel has already been confirmed:
1. Zack Snyder wrote the first draft of the script from the army of the dead ten years agoyes
two. Shooting the opening scene, when the soldiers find Zeus, took five weeks. “I really wanted to shoot at sunset, in natural light,” Snyder said. “We shot every day at sunset, for five weeks, until everything was perfect.”
3. In the opening sequence, the VFX team added some subtle spheres in the air, like a reference to Area 51.
4. While Zack doesn’t have a cameo in the film, the most attentive fans will see it in two scenes at the beginning.
5. For several years, Snyder bought all the Canon Dream lenses made in the sixties that you could find on eBayto give the film a smooth, organic appearance that would contrast with its wild apocalyptic landscape.
6. Before production started, spent a year collaborating with RED Studios on custom camera design that combine digital camera technology with Canon Dream lenses.
7. the army of the dead It is Snyder’s first film as cinematographer. and it is the first time that he has used digital cameras for a feature film.
8. The top ten actors in the cast they trained for a week in a “zombie military camp”where they learned about weapon terminology and handling, positioning, manipulation, how to move around with a weapon, and working as an integrated team.
9. Las Vegas casinos are open 24 hours, which made it impossible to film in the so-called Sin City. For this reason, Showboat Atlantic City casino was used for the interior of Bly’s casino in Las Vegas. The Showboat, whiche today it only works as a hotel, it has a casino area of more than 5,500 square meters that has not been used since 2014. Julie Berghoff and her production design team had to get over 500 slots for the huge space.
10. Production also acquired 2,500 plastic skeletons on Amazon and Halloween stores; then the art department ldressed you up and stacked ’em up in the back lot of ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
11. To create the zombie tiger valentine, the VFX team needed to be based on a real tiger of similar size. So they came to Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida, where they met Carole Baskin several months before the premiere of tiger kingwho taught them what was necessary.
Source: Eluniverso
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