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Star Wars Art Director Eyes Malaysia For Next Project
KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- Star Wars Art Director Roger Christian
is eyeing Malaysia as his next location to film and produce his upcoming zombie
flick.
Christian said Malaysia, besides being rich in culture, had great and
suitable spots for filming the movie titled 'Temple of the Undead'.
He is currently in Malaysia for a corporate film project with the Malaysian
Investment Development Authority (MIDA) to attract investors to Malaysia.
He is working on the special effects and Computer-generated imagery (CGI).
"I have an idea for a movie or two, so this an ideal opportunity for me to
come and explore if we could plan a movie here. So its been a very valuable
trip.
"I want to make a very different movie, very ethnic and tribal zombie
movie.. it will include scenes of a battle with headhunters... I see Malaysia is
perfect for the filming," he told reporters after visiting the Digital Mix Stage
Studio at the National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia (Finas) here
THursday.
He said the movie would be 100 per cent filmed and produced in Malaysia,
which would be made in the veins of eye-popping visual effect-driven films like
Sin City and 300.
"We just got the ideas and the film is now in the process of writing and
constructing, not yet at the shooting stage and I guess it will take a year to
make the film.
"Malaysia has lots of great places so the shooting will be done in different
places, also a little bit of jungle and featuring local talents," he
said, adding that the cast also had yet to be finalised.
Meanwhile, Christian urged local filmmakers to emphasise on their film
quality in order to be on par with films from other countries, especially
Hollywood.
He said, however filmmakers need to maintain and keep national identity in
their film product in an effort to spread the culture, tradition and language
globally.
"You have to find the passion and don't think about getting paid, fame and
success, just go and make better movies.. not Hollywood movies but Malaysian,
but with Hollywood standard.
"The equipment in Malaysia it's all there and what is required in post
production must be world class, so get your hands dirty as you can't just learn
from theory," he said.
Meanwhile, he said he had no plans and will not be returning to the new
franchise reboot of Star Wars.
"The franchise is in a whole new world now, it's Disney's now," he said.
Christian won an Academy Award for art direction for the first Star Wars
movie, which was later renamed Episode IV: A New Hope, in 1977, and was
Oscar-nominated for his work on Alien.
He directed the second unit on both Return of the Jedi and Star Wars Episode
I: The Phantom Menace as well as other feature films including The Sender and
Nostradamus, and directed Underworld and Battlefield Earth.
-- BERNAMA