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Paul W.S. Anderson on Bringing George R.R. Martin’s ‘In the Lost Lands’ to Life and How to Make a Blue Screen Film That Actually Looks Good
'In the Lost Lands' director Paul W.S. Anderson on Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista's team-up and why other modern blue screen films look so flat.
The cult filmmaker has ventured into just about every other genre — often juggling a few at once, as with the zombie action and corporate dystopia of the “Resident Evil” series, or the occult horror and space exploration of “Event Horizon.” But a medieval story of knaves and nymphs had eluded him until his new feature “ In the Lost Lands,” an adaptation of a George R.R. The production developed a unique “star-field tracking” system for its studio space, with about 350 reference points in the ceiling — “like an old-timey sailing ship, where you’d navigate according to the stars,” Anderson describes. Prior to principal photography, Anderson spent more than a year working with his VFX supervisor Dennis Berardi to develop the full look and scope of the Lost Lands.
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