Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are set to star in a film they wrote themselves and will get Greg Motolla to direct.
The roadtrip comedy will feature the two geeks fresh off a trip to Comic Con in San Diego (by the time this movie comes out Pegg can cosplay as Scotty) and taking a side trip to the notorious Area 51 where they actually meet an alien and agree to help him get home.
That movie is a far more technically challenging movie than Adventureland was because one of the main characters is a fully non-existent creature. He’s basically an alien who may be, let’s say, 70% CGI and the big challenge is that he needs to be a very funny, comedic method actor. It’s not the kind of CGI character where we people to say ‘Oh wow, look what they did, that’s so cool’ it’s actually the kind of CGI character where we want people to just treat like another actor in the film, and he should be fully believable and multi-faceted and has to give a great performance, he just doesn’t exist. We’ve been doing a lot of test trying to figure out how to pull that one off.
I have all faith that Pegg and Frost will make for some great fanboy geeks, and for them to pull an ET storyline will work – provided the alien works.
The technology exists to make things look GREAT with cgi and it makes me cringe when they fall short. Ever since I saw dinos on Jurassic Park and BELIEVED in dinos on screen I have been waiting for them to just fire all of Hollywood and hire voice actors. But not yet.
Making the character 70% CGI with an actor will be believable and will make him more alien than animatronics and latex ever could. I just hope it looks right.
