The other week came the news that Warner Bros. Pictures was pushing back its DC movie release slate by several months with a film like “Black Adam” pushed from July 29th to October 21st.
The film’s producer Hiram Garcia has now spoken with The Wrap about the delay and revealed a problem that is likely impacting others as well – a backlog of work across the visual effects industry caused by a combination of the pandemic and increased demand.
The demand for VFX shots is high and there are only so many companies around to handle them which is leading to a bit of a clogging up of the production pipeline:
“I think we’re just in a world right now where there was a huge and understandable freeze-up when the pandemic hit and a lot of productions were put on hold. Now that the industry has really roared back, the pipeline for VFX is so jammed. Obviously, all these superhero movies just require so much VFX, and we’re just in a situation where the majority of the VFX houses are just completely swamped with work.
I think that’s why you saw seismic shifts across the board, and you continue to see those giant properties just moving further down the line. And it’s just a matter of the vendors being able to accommodate the amount of VFX they have to do, the shots that have to be done.”
Jaume Collet-Serra helms the film which stars Dwayne Johnson, Noah Centineo, Aldis Hodge, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell and Pierce Brosnan.
