14 DAY TRIAL // One of the upcoming hyped releases is Zack Snyder’s “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,” which arrives in US theaters this month and of which the director says it broke all 3D rules imaginable.
3D movies often get a bad rap, either because they don’t match pre-release hype (when 3D is the only thing good in them) or because they’re converted in post-production, therefore are not really 3D.
None of that will happen to “Legend,” Snyder assures fans in a recent interview cited by ScreenCrave, for the simple reason that the focus when making this movie was not on obeying rules.
And, apparently, there’s a lot of those, the director says: in order to make a 3D movie from start to finish, one has a long list of do’s and don’ts, but he personally disregarded both when working on “Legend.”
“Legend of the Guardians wasn’t converted in post, it was shot in 3D from day one, but that doesn’t mean that Snyder didn’t take some creative and technological liberties,” ScreenCrave writes.
“According to him Guardians broke all the 3D production rules – yet the film still looks amazing!” the same movie-oriented e-zine points out.
“We broke all the rules. We paid no attention to the rules. I want to put an out of focus thing in the foreground. Let’s try and like push the rules of 3D. We would do a little thing like move them to the edge a little more,” Snyder shared during the conference about the making of “Legend.”
“And when I was coloring the movie I would darken the foreground element so that it wouldn’t jump out as far. There were things we did specifically but again always trying to just push it a little bit, to make it more like a movie,” the director went on to explain.
With an inspirational tagline like “On his way to finding a legend... he will become one,” “Legend” is based on the first three books by Kathryn Lasky, “Guardians of Ga’Hoole.
The first official trailer for it, which you can also see below, has gotten fans of the genre and, of course, of the original novels, all hyped up because it looks very promising.
All will find out if “Legend” is all it’s cracked up to be and, most importantly, if Snyder was telling the truth when promising a 3D movie like no other, on September 24, when it drops in US theaters.