about those gatchaman movie storyboards and kevin munroe interview highlights
IESB has exclusive first-look storyboard-images of the upcoming here
- Gatchaman-movie coverage GATCHAMAN animated film
(from IMAGI) including an exclusive interview with director; Kevin Munroe ~ (IESB-rawks!)
/// CLICK HERE FOR MIRRORED IMAGES AND INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
(EDITED) KEY KEVIN MUNROE SOUNDBYTES:
ON FILM DIRECTION:
- "stay as close as possible to the original versions but at the same time add some sleekness to it so it’s not just “tights.”
- “I try to describe it to people, it’s not cartoon-ey and it’s not photo-real. It’s really pushing the western style of animation, something very cool and different.”
- “Fans of the tv show will remember that they never talked about how the Gatchaman started, how the war between the Gatchaman and Galactor started... What was the first invasion like…”
- co-director Tom Tanaka adds: “So this is ... the prequel to the TV show in a sense, and the idea that the mythology of the Gatchaman is not just restricted to technology, there is a mystical aspect as well.”
ON CHARACTER-POINTS:
- “We’ve got a couple of key characters, and bad things happen to them, a key character dies at one point..."
- The Phoenix (Gatchaman's mothership) "flames up" and comes complete with signature bay doors, and it’s not completely re-imagined or redesigned, but it has a modern and “fast” look and feel ... the flame transformation of the ship comes at a pivotal and climatic point in the story.
ABOUT THE STORY:
- “It’s an origin story. We’re going through, we’re adding mythology.”
- “We’ve got politics, terrorism, the island is the beacon of hope and the Gatchaman become the symbol of that hope for all of mankind because it takes what happens in this movie to united everybody together to fight back. It’s bigger than just a simple alien invasion story…”
- "We find our heroes at the end of Act 1, with a completely destroyed city after the aforementioned alien invasion. There’s no place to go but bigger! ... Act 3 blows the invasion away."
ON WHAT TO EXPECT @ SDCC 2008:
Munroe says he would like “A big presence [at Comic Con], it’d be cool to reveal what the suits look like to everyone. A trailer would be great. It’s just up to what Warners wants to do and what Imagi wants to do.”
- go read the entire interview @ IESB packed with more details and revelations :) ... me? im getting pretty well damned excited at this point - how to not be? *LOL*
- peep "early" conceptual-art of Gatchaman-movie here
- Gatchaman-movie coverage on this blog
[ALL images+info via IESB / tip-off via Movieblog]
- Gatchaman-movie coverage GATCHAMAN animated film
(from IMAGI) including an exclusive interview with director; Kevin Munroe ~ (IESB-rawks!)
/// CLICK HERE FOR MIRRORED IMAGES AND INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
(EDITED) KEY KEVIN MUNROE SOUNDBYTES:
ON FILM DIRECTION:
- "stay as close as possible to the original versions but at the same time add some sleekness to it so it’s not just “tights.”
- “I try to describe it to people, it’s not cartoon-ey and it’s not photo-real. It’s really pushing the western style of animation, something very cool and different.”
- “Fans of the tv show will remember that they never talked about how the Gatchaman started, how the war between the Gatchaman and Galactor started... What was the first invasion like…”
- co-director Tom Tanaka adds: “So this is ... the prequel to the TV show in a sense, and the idea that the mythology of the Gatchaman is not just restricted to technology, there is a mystical aspect as well.”
ON CHARACTER-POINTS:
- “We’ve got a couple of key characters, and bad things happen to them, a key character dies at one point..."
- The Phoenix (Gatchaman's mothership) "flames up" and comes complete with signature bay doors, and it’s not completely re-imagined or redesigned, but it has a modern and “fast” look and feel ... the flame transformation of the ship comes at a pivotal and climatic point in the story.
ABOUT THE STORY:
- “It’s an origin story. We’re going through, we’re adding mythology.”
- “We’ve got politics, terrorism, the island is the beacon of hope and the Gatchaman become the symbol of that hope for all of mankind because it takes what happens in this movie to united everybody together to fight back. It’s bigger than just a simple alien invasion story…”
- "We find our heroes at the end of Act 1, with a completely destroyed city after the aforementioned alien invasion. There’s no place to go but bigger! ... Act 3 blows the invasion away."
ON WHAT TO EXPECT @ SDCC 2008:
Munroe says he would like “A big presence [at Comic Con], it’d be cool to reveal what the suits look like to everyone. A trailer would be great. It’s just up to what Warners wants to do and what Imagi wants to do.”
- go read the entire interview @ IESB packed with more details and revelations :) ... me? im getting pretty well damned excited at this point - how to not be? *LOL*
- peep "early" conceptual-art of Gatchaman-movie here
- Gatchaman-movie coverage on this blog
[ALL images+info via IESB / tip-off via Movieblog]
