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Stan Winston talks Skinwalkers

StanWinston.jpgStan Winston has been talking about his love for his next movie project Skinwalkers. Skinwalkers is a werewolf film that Winston believes has a difference. Speaking at Comic-Con the director James Isaac says...

"It approaches the werewolf mythology in a different way and that it's a real story about two different teams of werewolves battling with each other but also dealing with the internal beast...These are people who have been werewolves their whole lives, generations. And they have two very strong belief systems. One group embraces being a werewolf, and everything that that means, and one group doesn't want to be a werewolf and holds it in and makes the choice to try and lead a normal life..."

UK IGN carry the Comic-Con conference. Winston talked about how the werewolves will be all prosthetics and not CGI, something which I think is a superb move, after all look how great the creatures were in Dog Soldiers.

"You're going to recognize the characters in these werewolves and you're going to recognize the performance of the characters in these werewolves and you're going to recognize the actors in these werewolves, and yet it couldn't be them. For me, that would be magic."

This does something to a genre that I thought was pretty well covered, it's promising something a little different and with Winston behind the effects, something that looks very real.





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Dog Soldiers, for me, is the benchmark for good movies of this Genre. It showed that Werewolf movies could completely exist outside the textus scriptus of the normalized werewolf mythis (IE silver bullets and the like ) and still be completely fateful to it.

The problem I see with this, if I see any problem, is that perhapse it's sounding a TAD bit too much like Underworld...but hey. only time will tell.

Stan Winston continually proves that CGI is not a necessity in making the viewer believe and completely buy into mythical creatures. I will forever be in awe at the way he pulled off some of the non CG effects in The Relic.

Underworld has to be the single biggest squandering of a good premise in genre cinema. Damn I hated that movie on every level: technical, scripting, acting. I mean even on the simplest level, it should have been good with Kate Beckinsale in tight leather, but she is so flat that she makes herself un-sexy as a vampire. Argh.

I agree, Kurt, but I do think Underworld was a good film in it's own.
I just didn't see Evolution so I can't make an educated remark on how the carry through was on the franchise.

I heard it was kinda crap.

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You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit' Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as prose. No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.
- Gabriel (John Travolta) in Swordfish