San Andreas, big budget disaster movie on shaky ground
- 9 years ago
California has been speculating on when the Big One will hit for years: a hypothetical earthquake of magnitude 8 expected along the San Andreas fault which would devastate the population, and a new film starring Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock is looking to cash in with a big budget action extravanganza.
For the director of San Andreas, Brad Peyton, it was important that the actors concentrated on their craft while the visual effects team worked their magic:
“There’s a saying that I have with the crew, which was, ‘Let’s build the ride and put the actors on it.’ And what that really was representing was, ‘I don’t want them to have to fake it. I don’t want them to have to (do) old-school 1970s ‘Star Trek’ it: ‘Lean this way. Lean that way.’ And now all I’m asking you to do is that’s all you’re thinking about, which is technical. I don’t want you to think about the technical. When there’s this many cameras and lights and gimbals and rigs, that’s a lot of technical. My job is to try to era
For the director of San Andreas, Brad Peyton, it was important that the actors concentrated on their craft while the visual effects team worked their magic:
“There’s a saying that I have with the crew, which was, ‘Let’s build the ride and put the actors on it.’ And what that really was representing was, ‘I don’t want them to have to fake it. I don’t want them to have to (do) old-school 1970s ‘Star Trek’ it: ‘Lean this way. Lean that way.’ And now all I’m asking you to do is that’s all you’re thinking about, which is technical. I don’t want you to think about the technical. When there’s this many cameras and lights and gimbals and rigs, that’s a lot of technical. My job is to try to era