Writer/director Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow is set to hit theaters on Memorial Day, 2004. In the film, Dennis Quaid plays a climatologist who tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son (Jake Gyllenhaal) in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age. Here's 'anonymous' with a word on the special effects (includes possible spoilers)...
Just had a conversation with a guy who did some FX work for this film, and he told me that Emmerich has asked the FX people to digitally scan the entire island of Manhattan. From what I understand this was done for a huge scene where a gigantic tidal wave washes over the city (I saw some pre-vis work on this, but nothing final) and a scene of a giant oil tanker floating between the skyscrapers. (again, only in pre-vis now).
Another snippet of info he gave me was that the real interesting part of this film comes only after the destruction (LA torn apart by tornados, NY by tidal wave). The movie is focused more on the survival of the human race after the Ice age hits, and not so much during the destruction.
He said that they are hard at work to finish a few shots asap for a teaser that should be coming out soon.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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