We had him and I think was it his brother?Ĭolin Strause: They were 2 of the stunt predators up in Canada. That Colossus guy, did he also double as one of the predators?Ĭolin Strause: Yeah, he was one of the predators. No special effects needed on that.Ĭolin Strause: Oh, it’s Kristin Hagger is Jessie, but I forget the name of the stunt woman who was playing her for that shot. As always, you can either read the transcript or listen to the audio as an MP3 by clicking here.Ĭolin Strause: Yeah, she got banged up a bit but she did great.
They seemed very reluctant to spill the beans, but they did say they have two original projects that they’d like to do and if the box office for "AVP:R" is good they’d love to do a sequel to take the battle into space.Īnd now… here’s the entire interview. But based on the scenes I saw this afternoon, and the first five minutes that FOX released online, it’s already a hell of a lot better than the last movie.Īt the end of the interview we tried to find out what the brothers were going to do next. Since I haven’t seen the final film I can’t say if their vision will work out. They revere “Aliens” and “Predator,” and after talking with them, they really seemed like fans who got the keys to their dream franchise. to become filmmakers (it was "T2" that did it). What I liked about the brothers is how much they spoke about James Cameron and how he eveninfluenced them to move to L.A. That’s why all the battles in this film will be in dark places with limited light. While I don’t have their exact words, they told us that you can’t show the Aliens in too much light or you’ll know it’s someone in a costume. When we spoke to the brothers they admitted that was their plan.
The one thing I noticed about all the footage is that the movie is dark and a lot of it looks like it takes place in the rain. Trust me, it’s soooo much better than the last movie. All the journalists watching let out a happy scream. The end of the scene featured a great death. Without ruining the scene, which played quite well to the ten of us, we saw the Preadator getting attacked by some Aliens and the humans stumbling into the battle. Inside we saw a group of heavily armed humans as they tried to make there way around the dark and dangerous building. In this scene we saw a Predator smashing his way into the front of a hospital. We were told this scene takes place in the last half of the movie. The second and much better scene featured humans, Aliens and a Predator. The brothers said this scene was about a third of the way into the movie. After rummaging around he sets the auto destruct and the scene ended with him walking away and the ship blowing up. From there he goes to a ship - I believe it was another Predator ship – and he goes to a previously killed Predator and gets some stuff from his body. The first one featured a Predator in the water after arriving on Earth. After a few minutes of Q&A, the brothers showed us two scenes from the film. I’ve been in a lot of screening rooms because of Collider and the chairs in this one might have been the best.
This was the area where they watched and worked on the film. Just some random FYI.įrom there we went upstairs and sat down in the screening room.
They told us they have two air conditioning units to keep the room ice cold. As most of you know, server farms get extremely hot. Just like you’d expect, it was cool to the touch. The server room is surrounded by glass, and since I had heard they keep those rooms ice cold, I put my hands on the wall to see how cold it was. We then walked up some stairs and saw a room with huge racks of servers in an area away from everything else. As we continued to walk around the office, someone asked how many special effects shots were in the film and one of the brothers said around 500 or so. And if you’re wondering, I asked what the running time is for "AVP:R" and they said around 97 minutes. The brothers said it would be around 7 or 8 minutes longer and they had some new and special footage planned for it. While we stood around the pit, we asked about the unrated DVD. I did try and see the computer screens to check out what else was being worked on… but, unfortunately, I didn’t see anything but Aliens. This area is also where they do a lot of effects for many films, as the Strause brothers said the effects artists were hard at work on “Jumper” and “Starship Dave” now that "AVP:R" is slowing down. At first we walked around an area they called the '3D pit' and that’s where they were putting the final touches on the upcoming unrated DVD. We all arrived around 1pm and were showed around the office.