The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: Of dragons and ant-men~
THURSDAY
Benedict Cumberbatch talked about Sherlock’s relationship with John after his comeback from the death, as well as the new villain in the form of Charles Augustus Magnussen played by Lars Mikkelsen~
He’s not a mad chaotic villain, not like the award-winning performance Andrew Scott gave as Moriaty. He is so measured and precise – he is like a shark, a terrifyingly perfect predator of our age.
Scriptwriter Drew Pearce talked about how tough it was to do “The Mandarin reveal” in Iron Man 3.
For the Mandarin, I’d been kicking around lots of ideas about false faces and terrorist pop stars and I was really worried about telling Marvel — I thought we’d get strung up — but Shane said, “[frick] ’em, this idea is kind of indelible. We should run towards it.” And to both of our surprise, when we pitched it to Kevin Feige, who’s the president of Marvel Studios, he took it in and said, “I love it.”
Man, Michael Rooker was totally amazed about the finished work on his looks as Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy. His enthusiasm is actually contagious!
The first time I saw what real people are going to see and it was stunning, stunning, it just I can’t describe it it just looked like real skin. It was so believable, it’s amazing, it amazed me and totally blew me away, stunning, beautiful and I couldn’t believe it. It made me think that I was working with real artists.
Oh yeah, and Paul Rudd is totally in Ant-Man! It says he’s the lead, but it doesn’t mention if he’s Hank Pym or Scott Lang.
FRIDAY
Apparently, we might have another villain in The Avengers: Age of Ultron! Yep, we might get Baron Von Strucker from H.Y.D.R.A.. Not only that, but he will be tied to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch somehow! Yeah, I don’t get it either!
Lee Pace talked about his nice year playing other-wordly creatures. Yes, Mr. Tall Glass of Water, nerd on!
It’s been quite an interesting year. I don’t know if I’ll ever play a human again! I was a vampire in Twilight, the king of the elves in The Hobbit and now an alien warlord in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Damn! Smaug looks so gorgeous in this concept art for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! Also, there are some other interesting but less atractive evil creature from Middle Earth. OK, Beorn looks fine enough I guess!
BTW, have you wondered why is Smaug more like a Wyvern than a traditional Dragon (as far as how he was depicted before)? It’s totally Benedict Cumberbatch’s fault! The Hobbit FX expert Joe Letteri says:
Originally, the dragon we envisioned was bigger. The idea was to get the fear through his bulk. In fact, if you go back and look at the first film and the scenes that he was in, he was actually a four-legged dragon because we just had him stomping through Erebor in all of those flashback scenes. But we realized that once you saw him performing — we especially got this from watching Benedict perform. He got down on the grown and starting slithering around like the way Tolkien described Smaug in the books, which is as a big worm. Once we saw Benedict doing all of that, we realized you can’t have him be this four-legged creature with wings on him back, he needs to be two legs and his wings need to be his arms properly, as you would expect a creature to be like a bat or a bird.
Finally, there was this rumor that said that Harry Potter will end up in the West End. And it is totally true! J.K. Rowling is going to co-produce a stage play based on her best-selling books. I kinda want it to be a musical but then I think it won’t be as glorious as A Very Potter Musical. Anyway, keep milking that cow, J.K.! You are still a long way to become George Lucas!
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And that it’s for the week. Before I go, here’s some VFX breakdown for Thor: The Dark World! Damn, that’s gorgeous! Specially the prologue~
