2011 Movie News Archives

December 18, 2011: Joe Letteri Talks Special Effects in "Man of Steel"

Man of Steel Joe Letteri, Oscar winning effects guru on films such as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Avatar" spoke to IndieWire.com recently and mentioned the approach Zack Snyder is taking towards Superman in "Man of Steel".

    "Zack's going for pretty much everything in-camera as much as he can," Letteri said in an interview Monday in New York. "I mean, the reason to think about Superman in CGI, you don't need him full CGI as a character, because he's basically a full person. But you just don't want the flying scenes to look like he's on a wire. So [the question is] how do you use CG to make that happen, and that's still kind of being played with right now."

    "The idea of a human flying, because you can't actually tell how they're powering themselves, leaves it open to trying different things.

    While Letteri didn't reveal exactly how they were depicting Superman's flying sequences, he said that they were primarily focusing on what was in the script and what Snyder wanted rather than referring to the decades upon decades of comic book images they could potentially draw upon as a reference point. "That's completely story-driven," he confessed. "That's going to depend on your shot and your composition, and the performance, and in that case, that's kind of Zack's call - what is he looking for there?"

Read the complete interview at the IndieWire.com website.



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