sp; Rope of SiliconRope of Silicon talked with "Sky Captain" director Kerry Conran who spoke briefly about his upcoming projects including the anticipated adaptation of "A Princess of Mars" which he's attached to direct:
About its current status, Conran says "We're moving full steam ahead on that. We don't have a script yet, it's early on obviously, but it's starting. Hopefully in the next couple months we'll start to move".
Will it be similar in style to the techniques used in "Sky Captain"? "I think we'll have a little more resources available this time out, sort of how Peter Jackson made Lord of the Rings, which used all the available technology, such as miniatures and all that to achieve that. I think there are certain types of images and effects that the computer isn't suited for, and you want to use whatever the best approach is for whatever the thing you're trying to create. So I wouldn't say that we would want to do it remotely like we did World of Tomorrow, but absolutely we would use some of the techniques".
What about what's after that? "Princess of Mars was something that I never could have imagined even agreeing to do, or wanting to do in that regard because I really only wanted to do my own stuff. I've also started working on what intended to be the next project with a friend of mine, that I went to school with, Bob Gordon, who wrote Galaxy Quest, one of the Men in Black movies, and Lemony Snicket, and so we have our little opus that we wanted to start working on. We're trying to do something that's very different, but very ambitious at the same time".
Thanks to 'Brad'.
