The latest live action trailer comes from Kong: Skull Island’s director.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxElWwWVFE
THR caught up with director Jordan Vogt Roberts about the shift from KSI to a video game behemoth like Destiny:
I’m actually curious how people will react. We had such a weird task of simultaneously trying to have humor and really expose people who might not know about Destiny to broaden the audience. But also, for me, it’s such an important thing to protect your core and be respectful to the people who made the first game such a success. So, the spot is trying to walk a lot of lines. I’m curious to see how that humor will translate with people.
The first Destiny game had Jon Favreau (Iron Man) as a director, which are pretty big shoes to fill. Roberts went on describing how his opportunity came about to take on the sequel trailer:
Kong had finished, and I was trying to figure out how to process what the last two and a half years of my life was. I’m so proud of the collaborations with Kong, but that was a quarter of a decade, essentially, so I wasn’t looking to jump into a project right away. I was sort of looking at commercials and TV stuff. This sort of randomly came up, and I was joking, “Well, I love comedy, I love sci-fi and I love video games, so this is sort of a perfect combination.” It only got sweeter when during my pitch I said I wanted to actually shoot it in Detroit. Luckily, [Activision CEO] Eric Hirshberg is from Michigan as well and saw that and said, “All right, cool. Let’s do that.” So, the job kept getting sweeter and sweeter for me.
Regarding Nathan Fillion, who plays the fan-favorite Cayde-6 within the Destiny universe and the live action trailer, Roberts had this to say:
Nathan was not on set with us, but he was incredibly involved. I can’t say enough good things about that guy. We had a bunch of emails going back and forth and a couple calls. He actually went and recorded video of himself riffing the speech. I was able to take the video of that to the actor who did the motion capture for Cayde-6 in the game who was there on set with us in the Cayde suit. It was a really lovely collaboration between the artist who does the mo-cap and Nathan who does the voice.
Roberts continued on about taking Destiny from a video game to live-action in this short trailer and discussed how it could have been a possible influence on the upcoming Metal Gear Solid film, of which Vogt Roberts will be tackling as director as well:
I think for me there is always going to be a little bit of exploration of playing with that translation of active experience to passive experience. And I think that builds into what I’m trying to achieve with Metal Gear and takes the first steps into that world of how these things can translate. Metal Gear is an infinitely tricky project, and there’s a billion ways to go wrong with that. Every little experiment is ultimately going in that reservoir of knowledge of how to protect an equally important property to people.
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