Writer James Gunn was busy late last year with both his "Dawn of the Dead" remake and the "Scooby-Doo" sequel in production. Now with both films about to come out, he spoke with Moviehole about the later which he also produced:
"It [Scooby Doo 2] is sleeker, faster, and furrier. The cast were much more comfortable with their roles, and have all upped their game. Raja was much more confidant, which shows up on screen. The movie is a lot more character-oriented, actually. The studio was a little freaked out when they first saw it – in a good way...it is a lot different from the first movie. The mystery is much more of a mystery – in the last movie we had one real suspect, and then a couple of faux suspects. In this movie we have at least four real suspects.
Oh yeah, and the action – there are many bigger, more fun action sequences in this movie. We have a great sequence with Scooby and Shaggy dirt-boarding down the side of a mountain on trash can lids, followed by a couple of skeleton men with eyeballs for heads. We also have a great sequence with the Pterodactyl Ghost chasing the Mystery Machine through the city streets of Coolsville".
He ain't the only one chatting about his work. 'Bishop' himself Lance Henriksen talked quite in-depth about his role as billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland in "Alien vs. Predator" to Web Magic and had some interesting stuff to say about the effects:
"When you look at that movie [Master and Commander] they spent almost $50 million on the special effects storm … I knew it was digital the minute I saw it … all our stuff, it’s real and then they use the effects just for that added … to enhance it. So it’s a much different movie that way .. he’s very smart about it. There are some things that are impossible to do, there is no other way of doing it .. but we’re only talking a 2 second shot. So we’re in a great zone, it’s really original".
That full interview can be found here.
Thanks to 'Clint' & 'Sue'
