Sony Pictures is presenting three of the studioās upcoming sci-fi films at the San Diego Comic-Con, including:
Total Recall ā Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Doug Quaid (Colin Farrell), the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his ordinary existence. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. Based on Philip K. Dickās classic story āWe Can Remember It For You Wholesale,ā this brand new take on some of his most visionary ideas is directed by Len Wiseman, who will join stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, and Bryan Cranston on stage.
Looper ā In the futuristic action thriller, time travel will be invented-but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a ālooperā-a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)-is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is goodā¦until the day the mob decides to āclose the loop,ā sending back Joeās future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. Writer/director Rian Johnson will join Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt to discuss the film.
Elysium ā Ever since writer-director Neill Blomkamp broke through with his first feature film, District 9, people have been wondering what he has in store for an encore. The studio will present a first look at his new movie as stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster join Neill and producer Simon Kinberg on stage.
You can read the archived version of our live blog below:
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Comment From Ashlee
Canāt wait for Kate Beckinsale!
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Silas Lesnick: Weāre starting with TOTAL RECALL!
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Silas Lesnick: Len Wiseman, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale are here!
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Silas Lesnick: The film is officially done as of four days ago.
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Silas Lesnick: āIāve been asleep since then till now,ā says Wiseman
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Silas Lesnick: Theyāre about to show footage!
4:47
Silas Lesnick: Itās a six-minute reel
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Silas Lesnick: It begins with a fast-cutting montage.
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Silas Lesnick: We learn that Farrellās Doug Quaid is getting tired of his regular life.
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Silas Lesnick: Thereās a lot from the trailers ā he heads to Rekall and gets implanted and something goes wrong.
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Silas Lesnick: We seem him fighting Beckinsaleās Lori and she delivers her āI give good wife,ā line.
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Comment From Ashlee
is there anyway to livestream with video? I really watch this! =)
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ComingSoon.net: They donāt allow sites to video in Hall H, sorry.
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Silas Lesnick: Quaid finds something implanted in his hand and pulls it out. Some kind of a data disc.
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Silas Lesnick: We see Quaid trying to get through airport security in a holographic disguise. It flickers off as they catch him
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Silas Lesnick: Thereās lots of scenes of the police force robots
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Silas Lesnick: One scene has Quaid leaping into an elevator as the robot arm grabs at him. It gets cut off completely by the elevator door and writhes on the ground
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Silas Lesnick: āItās amazing what they can do,ā says Farrell, āWe were just in a green room on apple boxes!ā
4:54
Silas Lesnick: The moderator jokes, āKate, youāre the worst wife ever.ā
4:54
Silas Lesnick: She says, āIāve heard that before!ā
4:55
Silas Lesnick: She jokes that she was offended that her husband, Wiseman, decided to pick her for the role
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Silas Lesnick: Bryan jokes that he found the role very physical and, if it was physical for him, he canāt imagine what the rest of the cast went through
4:56
Silas Lesnick: Biel is talking about getting trained in Parkour and lots and lots of boxing
4:57
EDouglasCS: Oh sh*tā¦ look who is in the house!!!!
4:57
EDouglasCS: First time in Hall H this conā¦ been mainly doing interviews all day.
4:57
Silas Lesnick: With that, Iāll turn the floor over to Mr. Ed Douglas!
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EDouglasCS: Wait, what? No, keep going, Silasā¦ I need to acclimate š
4:58
Silas Lesnick: Theyāre turning the panel over to audience questions
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EDouglasCS: I did get a chance to see the footage and it all looks great!
4:58
Silas Lesnick: The first question is about the focus of the film: action, humor or mystey?
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Silas Lesnick: Len says that itās a mystery first and foremost
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Silas Lesnick: āI love the mystery and the fact that the mystery is a character itself really drew me in.ā
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Silas Lesnick: Colin jokes that heās spent so much of his life not knowing who he is so playing Quaid came easy.
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Comment From jugraf
why hiiding the 3 boobs woman in the reboot !!! Why ?! itās a big mistake !
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ComingSoon.net: Theyāre not hiding her, sheās even at Comic-Con š
https://comingsoon.staging.vip.gnmedia.net/news/movienews.php?id=92527
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Silas Lesnick: Kate says her character actually combines multiple characters from the Verhoeven version.
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Silas Lesnick: She says that her character is very different from Sharon Stoneās
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Silas Lesnick: Colin jokes that Kate was nervous at first because she was worried Len was actually remaking Verhoevens BASIC INSTINCT
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EDouglasCS: The next question comes from someone very British.
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Silas Lesnick: Heās asking about the role that Britain plays in the film
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Silas Lesnick: Heās wondering if maybe England stands in for Mars ā They donāt entirely answer though
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EDouglasCS: Bryan Cranston already seems to be kind of loopyā¦ i wonder how the Breaking Bad panel went earlier.
5:04
Comment From Ashlee
does that woman actually have 3 boobs?
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EDouglasCS: The guy also asked Kate what she thought of the way Len portrayed England (sheās British, heās not)
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ComingSoon.net: Yes, Ashlee, sheās thinking about getting a fourth.
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ComingSoon.net: I kid.
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EDouglasCS: @ComingSoon.net That would be a great niche for a good plastic surgeon.
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Silas Lesnick: Farrell says he thought about doing an Austrian accent as an homage to Arnold, but quickly reconsidered.
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EDouglasCS: I want to go up to the mic and start crying so Kate Beckinsale will hug me like she did with one fan years ago
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ComingSoon.net: Arenāt you still not allowed within 200 yards of her?
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EDouglasCS: @ComingSoon.net Iāll take a 200-yard mimed hug.
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EDouglasCS: I am literally sitting 200 yards from the stage for that reason š
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ComingSoon.net: Ah, makes sense.
5:07
EDouglasCS: Silas are you still here?
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Silas Lesnick: Yep, but now Iām out! Have fun with the rest of the panel everybody!
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EDouglasCS: Bryan Cranston said he was reticent to play a role that had been played by someone else before
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ComingSoon.net: Thanks Silas!
5:08
Comment From CJohn
So, who is going to report all the news about Looper and Elysium?
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ComingSoon.net: Edās in place.
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EDouglasCS: He said that his character was a bit spoiled and wanted everyone to listen to him but that there were terrorists (revolutionaries) who is disrupting his master plan.
5:09
EDouglasCS: Asking Jessica what got her on board?
5:09
EDouglasCS: She said it was the ālen spellā that got everyone on board.. and someone joked that everybody on the cast slept with Len (not just Kate)
5:09
EDouglasCS: She really wanted to help create a new Molina character for this movieā¦ she thought she was capable and smart. Len wanted to create a love story amidst the mess between the two people
5:10
EDouglasCS: āThat was the exciting and terrifying challengeā she says
5:10
EDouglasCS: @CJohn, Iāll be reporting on Looper/Elysiumā¦ already spoke with Rian Johnson and Matt Damon about them earlier.
5:11
EDouglasCS: @Ashlee asks if theyāve talked about Kate and Jessicaās fight ā¦ no, not yet
5:11
EDouglasCS: Colin says again that this isnāt played as comedically and he doesnāt have one-liners but that falls on Kateās shoulders.
5:12
EDouglasCS: @Ashlee asking a guy how Kate looks can only get one or two responsesā¦ Iām sure she looks great on her worst day! š
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EDouglasCS: Moderator asking about the love story in the movie while making sure the story is getting told
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EDouglasCS: āThereās such a romantic notion that amidst all the action at such a fast pace, that these two will find each other again and that the quest that the other person youāve been dreaming about, that that possibly could be real. I was taken by that.ā
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EDouglasCS: āBecause thatās what happened to you, honey,ā Kate responds.
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EDouglasCS: Check check
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EDouglasCS: Okay, Iām backā¦ sorry got knocked out and missed a couple questions.
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EDouglasCS: Colin is talking about being on some of the sets and he said that being on one of the sets was like being in an opium den āso I felt right at homeā
5:17
EDouglasCS: so thatās it for the Total Recall panel.. sorry, we had some technical difficulties there
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Comment From mars
noticed that badtaste.it is quicker and has pictures on their live blog
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EDouglasCS: Sorry @marsā¦ see above
5:18
EDouglasCS: Next up is Looper, the new movie from Rian Johnson, the direct
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EDouglasCS: Rian is the director of Brothers Bloom
5:19
EDouglasCS: Introducing director Rian Johnson
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EDouglasCS: Next out is Emily BLunt
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EDouglasCS: And the filmās star Joseph Gordon Levitt who got a huge round of applause!
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EDouglasCS: Bruce Willis couldnāt make it to Comic-Con because heās in Eastern Europe doing Die Hard
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EDouglasCS: Rian talks about how he came up with the idea for Looper
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EDouglasCS: āI came up with the idea bout ten years ago when I was reading a lot of PHilip K. Dickā
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EDouglasCS: āI had the idea for a mob in the future who kills people by sending them back in timeā
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EDouglasCS: āIt deals with an assassin who comes face to face with his future selfā
5:21
EDouglasCS: Joseph plays a character named Joeā¦ that character was written specifically for him by Rian (who directed Joseph in Brick)
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EDouglasCS: Joeās a looperā¦ and itās too difficult to kill people in the future so they send them back in time for a looper to kill them.
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EDouglasCS: They send Joe his future self to kill who is played by Bruce Willis
5:22
EDouglasCS: Emily Blunt canāt say much about her character Sarah. āShe and her family get embroiled in this whole debacleā
5:23
EDouglasCS: Blunt says sheās a badass living in the middle of nowhere in the MidWest
5:23
EDouglasCS: āIt was a very exciting role to play.ā
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EDouglasCS: Showing a four or five minute reel
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EDouglasCS: Footage looked awesomeā¦ it was basically an extended version of the trailer.
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EDouglasCS: āHow did you get Joe to look like Bruce Willis?ā
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EDouglasCS: Rian: āafter we cast Bruce we thought uh oh, they donāt look anything alike.ā So Bruce Willis was in the make-up chair for three hours
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EDouglasCS: Sorry, Joe was in the make-up chair
5:29
EDouglasCS: The footage included more of Jeff Danielsā character who is Joeās handlerā¦ he has a thick and long grey beard.
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EDouglasCS: Also saw more of the āface-offā between Joe and Bruce Willis in the diner
5:30
EDouglasCS: @CJOhn I donāt believe Bruce Willis was thereā¦ just ARnie and Sly
5:30
EDouglasCS: Joe said he doesnāt do good impressions and isnāt a good mimic which made it harder for him to play a younger Bruce Willis. Emily Blunt is giving him a hard time and asking Joe to do his British accent.
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EDouglasCS: He sounds like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
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EDouglasCS: Footage looked greatā¦ lots of action but it seems like a really rich story
5:31
EDouglasCS: Joe is talking about working with Bruce, saying heās a āSuper-cool guyā¦ heās a sweetheart and he loved this jobā
5:31
EDouglasCS: Joe also said he was a fan of Bruce as well.
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EDouglasCS: Moderator asking Rian about what made him think of Joseph to play a looperā¦ and he said that he did it because he wanted to work with his friend again. (Joe starred in Rianās first movie Brick)
5:32
EDouglasCS: Asking Emily why she got involvedā¦ she says it was after reading 30 pages of the script.
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EDouglasCS: āI read it a few times before I met Rian because itās rich in complexity and in the emotion of the piece.ā
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EDouglasCS: Emily Blunt: āhe writes in such a singular way and itās not derived from anything else youāve seenā
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EDouglasCS: BTW, Iād like to take pictures but itās hard to do that and type up whatās being talked about in the panel.
5:34
EDouglasCS: Oh manā¦ breaking news that Sly Stalloneās son was just found dead of an overdoseā¦ I hope that didnāt happen in San Diego
5:35
EDouglasCS: First question comes from the Asian twins who always come to Comic-Con
5:35
EDouglasCS: They ask Joe what the best part of working with Emily blunt. Joe: āShe makes me laugh all the time because letās face it, most pretty girls arenāt funnyā
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EDouglasCS: Joe: āWe just had a great timeā
5:36
EDouglasCS: Next question is to Joe about something he learned about collaborating with Bruce Willis
5:37
EDouglasCS: He said that he was impressed by how soft-spoken Bruce was and that he didnāt have to raise his voice to have a presence
5:37
EDouglasCS: Emily is telling a story about Bruce being covered in blood and he saw her in the sun and was worried about her āpale British skinā so he came over with a parasol to protect her from the sun while covered in blood
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EDouglasCS: Joe being asked about getting through working with an icon. āAs soon as you get working because once you do that, none of that other sh*t matters anymore.ā
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EDouglasCS: Joe: āHe was really into the work, you can tell he put a lot of thought into what he was trying to do. to see him get excited and passionate about working drew me right in. ā
5:39
EDouglasCS: Joe being asked about how he does all his independent stuff like hitRECORD from his big movies
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EDouglasCS: I got some pictures of Joseph Gordon Levitt but canāt post them while tweeting
5:40
EDouglasCS: Joe says that he considers all that stuff as the same thing, whether itās a little independent film or some big studio movie
5:40
EDouglasCS: He just plugged Dark Knight Rises and he says that Christopher Nolan has a similar sensibility
5:41
EDouglasCS: Next question is to Joe asking about becoming the character both mentally and physically
5:41
EDouglasCS: Joe: āI didnāt work out for sh*t on this movieā
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EDouglasCS: Emily says itās always a challenge whether you have to portray someone else like what Joe has to doā¦ she says that she didnāt think Joe did a cheap impersonation of Bruce but embodied the personality.
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EDouglasCS: Emily says it was difficult for her because she was playing someone who is nothing like herself. āThe hardest thing was having to learn how to chop wood convincinglyā
5:42
Comment From sandlou
Youāre doing a great job! Pictures would be great ā but the dialogue is more interesting for now. Canāt wait for Elysium!
5:43
EDouglasCS: Moderator asking Rian about doing a bigger movie like Looper compared to his indie films
5:43
EDouglasCS: āAt the end of the day, whether youāre making a movie with your video camera and friends or doing a movie like Looper, the process is essentially the sameā
5:43
EDouglasCS: Thanks sandlotā¦ I canāt wait for Elysium either!! Matt Damon was awesome in my interviewā¦ canāt wait to post that.
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EDouglasCS: Next question is to Joe and Emily: āOf all the projects youāve done which has been the most challenging and the most funā
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EDouglasCS: Emily says Looper has been the best movie sheās been a part of and felt she was lucky to be in it.
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EDouglasCS: Emily āThe most challenging was The Adjustment Bureau cause I had to learn how to dance and that was a fresh new hell every dayā
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Comment From Dave
I agree with sandlou, thanks so much.
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EDouglasCS: @Dave Thanks! @TetraVaal Didnāt speak to Neil this timeā¦ just Matt Damon (isnāt that enough?) and producer Simon Kinberg
5:45
EDouglasCS: I wish I knew who this moderator wasā¦ he keeps interrupting with his own questions
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EDouglasCS: Joe said that this movie was physically challenging between the hours of make-up and trying to be Bruce Willis
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Comment From sandlou
I canāt wait for you to post that interview either. Will it be posted soon? You must love your jobā¦but you must be soooo busy this week. Your blog is great!
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EDouglasCS: @Sandlou Hopefully tonight or tomorrow
5:47
EDouglasCS: Last question was so esoteric Iām not sure I understood it.
5:48
EDouglasCS: These are some really intelligent questionsā¦ next one to Rian about working with Joe on Brick and then working on Looper which seems different
5:49
EDouglasCS: Rian: āWhen you write you spend all this time in your room by yourselfā¦ writing is not fun and youāre dying for a collaboration so to have great actors like these guys to bounce off and to have them surprise youā¦ā
5:49
EDouglasCS: Rian was excited to have Emily in the movie because she surprised him on every day.
5:50
EDouglasCS: Thereās an interesting aspect of Looper called āClosing your loopā which is basically making sure thereās no loose ends when you kill someone. I think this is going to be a very cool movie
5:51
EDouglasCS: First out is director Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
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EDouglasCS: Next up Elysium!!!
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EDouglasCS: Wifi is really sloooooooooow
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EDouglasCS: opens september 28 I believe.
5:52
EDouglasCS: Neillās a big fan of Comic-Con and really wanted to debut some footage there.. Matt told me earlier that theyāre going to have 7 minutes
5:52
EDouglasCS: Neil: āThe idea of launching footage at Comic-Con is a true thingā
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EDouglasCS: He really wanted to show the footage to the fans before anyone else and he said the visual FX are not even remotely done yet. (The movie opens out until March)
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EDouglasCS: Showing footage first
5:54
Comment From afranco282
Elysium comes out 3/1/2013, Looper is 9/28/2013 just to clear things up
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ComingSoon.net: Yes, the wifi messed up Edās post order.
5:55
Comment From CJohn
Looper is released in 2012
6:01
EDouglasCS: The footage looked amazing!
6:01
EDouglasCS: Basically Elysium is a space station where the wealthy can live with no poverty and they have machines that can keep them from ever having health problems
6:02
EDouglasCS: Matt Damon is a man on earth which is completely poor and diseased and overpopulatedā¦ he gets irradiated on his job and is going to die in five days so he has to get to Elysium
6:02
EDouglasCS: Lots of great footage of both Elysium which looks like paradise, very colorful and high-tech
6:02
EDouglasCS: On-hand are Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon and Jodi Foster, the latter two their first Comic-Con
6:03
EDouglasCS: Sharlto plays a bounty hunter who is hired to stop Matt Damonās character from getting to Elysium
6:04
EDouglasCS: I believe Mattās character is called Axel Coaster (?) and in order to get to Elysium, he meets up with a friend named Spider who convinces him to get an implant in his head and an ex-skeleton in order to kidnap an Elysium citizen played by Bill Fichtner
6:05
EDouglasCS: Jodie Foster is one of the higher ups at Elysium who discovers Mattās attempted kidnapping and wants to stop him getting there
6:05
EDouglasCS: We saw a lot of footage of Matt fighting with Sharlto (who has a beard and looks to be dressed in heavy clothing)ā¦ there were some shoot-outs and some hand-to-hand fights between them.
6:05
EDouglasCS: Both Matt and Jodie said that they wanted to do the movie because they loved District 9 and wanted to work with Neill
6:06
EDouglasCS: Sharlto is happy to be back at Comic-Con āIām not going to cry because my character has to look toughā
6:07
EDouglasCS: The footage really gave a good idea of the plot and Mattās story arc.
6:08
EDouglasCS: @maddy_d asks about the look of the filmā¦ earth looks very gritty, a bit like the South Africa of District 9ā¦ Elysium is very colorful on the inside but itās absolutely a huge space station, enormousā¦ it looks pretty classic.
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EDouglasCS: Oh, thereās also robots in the movieā¦ we see that when Bill Fichtnerās character travels down to earth, he has two robot protectors who go after Matt when he tries to kidnap him
6:08
EDouglasCS: Also producer Simon Kinberg is on the panel
6:09
EDouglasCS: The exoskeleton that Matt wears looks pretty coolā¦ it looks like his guns plug right into it.
6:11
EDouglasCS: at the beginning of the footage, we see how Mattās character gets into an altercation with one of the robots and is sent to prison
6:11
EDouglasCS: BTW, Jodie Fosterās character has sort of a strange accent in the movie
6:11
EDouglasCS: First question is a general question about the challenges Matt and Jodie have faced as actors, not necessarily to do with the movie
6:12
EDouglasCS: Matt talks about asking Neill lots of questions about Elysium just to see if he can answer themā¦ just facetiously, but Neill always had answers because he really thought a lot about this world and the look of it.
6:12
EDouglasCS: Next question for Sharlto asking about the transformation from being unknown to being a star
6:13
EDouglasCS: Sharlto jokes about playing Angelina Jolieās love interest in Maleficent and his friends saying āNo way, you play nerds!!ā
6:14
EDouglasCS: Neil is being asked about how important it is to give the actors as much as possible in terms of sets and environments and he says thereās a lot of green screen.
6:14
EDouglasCS: Apparently Elysium is all green screen done on stages while the earth segments were shot in Mexico City. He says that the robots were played by stunt guys in suits and then replaced with CG
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EDouglasCS: it seems very CG but even though he said the FX werenāt complete, I thought what we saw looked great and Iām not sure what he was talking about, saying that there was a lot of previs. Maybe the Elysium stuff was previs
6:16
EDouglasCS: Sharlto jokes that we should ask Neill and Peter Jackson to make a sequel to District 9 because he needs work.
6:16
EDouglasCS: Jodie asked about working in a green screen environment and she said it was fun
6:16
Comment From TetraVaal
Would you rank it above what was shown for Looper and Total Recall?
6:17
EDouglasCS: It was more on par with Total Recall.. a big science fiction movie. I thought itās a nice counterpart to Total Recall.. thereās a similar idea of two very different worldsā¦ one thatās poor and one thatās rich and traveling between the two
6:17
Comment From Angel
What about Wagner Mouraās character?
6:18
EDouglasCS: I believe Wagner was playing Spider who is sort of a guy in the underground who helps Matt Damon outā¦ there is probably a bit of a revolutionary aspect (similar to Total Recall) where people on earth are fighting against the people on Elysium who have everything
6:18
Comment From maddy_d
was there an original soundtrack to accompany any of the scenes? and if so what did it sound like
6:18
EDouglasCS: Hard to tellā¦ it was probably temp
6:19
EDouglasCS: Neill said that the pressure on the crew for this one were equal to that of District 9 because they were shooting in the slums of Mexico CIty.
6:19
EDouglasCS: They shot the Elysium scenes in Vancouver first so that the FX guys could get to the CG
6:19
Comment From brecook
Did the footage of the same awesome down and dirty look that District 9 had?
6:19
EDouglasCS: Yes.. it looks greatā¦ but only the earth stuff was grittyā¦ the space station stuff was colorful and high tech and modern
6:19
Comment From TetraVaal
I know itās hard to base an opinion off of 7 minutes of unfinished footage, but does it appear Blomkamp is avoiding a sophomore slump?
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EDouglasCS: Yeah, Iād like to think so @TetraVaal.
6:20
EDouglasCS: Neill is talking about the terrors of shooting in Mexico City but that shooting down there made it look awesome even though they faced sandstorms and they had to shoot in a huge dump in which the dust was made of fecal matterā¦ YuCK!
6:21
EDouglasCS: Matt is talking about being in the dump and helicopters coming through and blowing the dust all over them.
6:21
EDouglasCS: Really funny story about how Matt would be covered in the dust and Neill would come up in his respirator and say āBut it looked great!ā
6:21
Comment From Ben
Iāve heard from two different people that Elysium is amazing ā there were rough cut screenings at sony early in the year. But i still dont understand what itās about ā Matt Damon gettin to a space station? thatās the logline?
6:22
EDouglasCS: @Ben Matt Damon is one of the people on earth living a tough life then he gets irradiated on the job and he has five days to get Elysium where he can be cured.
6:22
EDouglasCS: Oh!! Also Matt seems to work at a robot factory, just like Colin Farrellās character in Total Recall! There are definitely lots of parallels.
6:22
Comment From sandlou
Blomkamp avoided a sophomore slump, yet it still looks like āBlomkampā work?
6:23
EDouglasCS: Theyāre telling funny horror stories about the stunt guy doing a stunt in that dump and being peed on by pigs
6:24
EDouglasCS: Matt Damon being asked about preparing for different roles like Good Will Hunting and Elysium
6:24
EDouglasCS: Matt: āAlso being a writer, you first have a lot of lead time. I try to think objectively more of it being a magic trick. You have a group of people trying to create this magic trick. In case of whatever movie it is, me and Neill sat down and discussed what I need to accomplish thisā
6:24
Comment From Ben
Is Matt Damonās character a family man/married or a single guy? Wondering what his incentive is to liveā¦.
6:25
EDouglasCS: @Ben he seems to be singleā¦ and I guess his incentive to live is the same as anyone else might have. the footage did seem to make it seem like he might be bringing a little girl to Elysium too, so that might add motive
6:26
EDouglasCS: the panel seems to be almost over
6:26
Comment From maddy_d
did the action scenes take place on earth or in elysium?
6:26
ComingSoon.net: Sony Pictures usually has surprises.
6:27
EDouglasCS: Both Maddyā¦mostly on earth but I think Mattās character figures out how to get to Elysium because heās up there going through the halls and shooting things. I believe the conflict is between him and Sharlto/Jodieās character
6:27
EDouglasCS: @ComingSoon Wishful thinking š
6:27
Comment From Dylan
Is Peter Jackson involved with the Production again? You mentioned previs, does that mean WETA is doing the effects too?
6:28
EDouglasCS: Weta is doing the FXā¦ Peter Jackson is not involved. Simon Kinberg is producing. Jackson is making The Hobbits!
6:28
EDouglasCS: (No problem @Ben)
6:28
EDouglasCS: They wonāt show the footage againā¦ boooooooo š
6:28
ComingSoon.net: Because they have surprises? š
6:29
EDouglasCS: I like when they show footage multiple times.
6:29
EDouglasCS: Guys, I think thatās itā¦ sorry @ComingSoon.net no surprises.. it is indeed over. Iām done for now but Iāll be back tomorrow morning live-blogging the panel for Quentin Tarantinoās Django Unchained!
6:29
Comment From Amanda
When are we getting a trailer?
6:29
EDouglasCS: Amanda, they didnāt sayā¦ Iād guess sometime in the fall
6:29
EDouglasCS: Signing off