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Virtuality Creator Ron Moore Thinks Series Is Still Possible, Reports SciFiWire
12/June/2009 01:56 AM Filed in: Articles
/ This movie was meant to be a pilot. So you finished it, handed it to Fox and what happened next?
Moore: Well, [Fox entertainment president] Kevin Reilly's first response was, "I love it, and if this was a movie, I'd put it straight to DVD right now and release it, and it'd do big business. It's a great movie. But as a pilot, I'm not sure." He wanted to tinker around with it a little bit, and we played with variations on it, until we all got to a version we were happy with, and that was the version that Kevin took up the line to the rest of the people at Fox.
And ultimately I think the communal reaction was that they were impressed by the production value of the show, they were challenged by the story material, and they just didn't know if it was going to work on the Fox network or not. They haven't officially said, "That's it. It's over." You never know how these things turn out, but at the moment I think Fox's attitude is probably wait and see.
How did the shoot go?
Moore: It was good. It was a very complicated shoot. It was juggling the three elements [the crew's mission, the virtual reality and the reality show] simultaneously, so we had to shoot enough footage to always have enough stuff that would play as the surveillance cameras and first-person confessionals, for the cast members to talk as if they were going into the confession room at the Big Brother house or something. So you had to have a lot of material to serve a lot of different purposes.
And the virtual stuff, we committed early on in the process to do it in CGI for almost all of it. Those sets were almost entirely green-screen sets, and we repurposed a video-game technology that my visual-effects supervisor was intrigued by as a way of doing cost-effective virtual effects. So it was a very complicated shoot with a lot of moving pieces. It was really fortunate that Peter Berg [Hancock] was the one who came in to direct it, because he was really able to juggle all these things simultaneously.
Did you alter the ending? Did anything change as a result of Fox choosing to air it as a movie versus them calling it a pilot and airing it as such?
Moore: No. To me, this will always be a pilot. I know that Fox calls it a movie, but this is a pilot. It ends with the setup for a series. That's how it should be viewed. /
Full Article:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/why-virtuality-creator-ro.php
Moore: Well, [Fox entertainment president] Kevin Reilly's first response was, "I love it, and if this was a movie, I'd put it straight to DVD right now and release it, and it'd do big business. It's a great movie. But as a pilot, I'm not sure." He wanted to tinker around with it a little bit, and we played with variations on it, until we all got to a version we were happy with, and that was the version that Kevin took up the line to the rest of the people at Fox.
And ultimately I think the communal reaction was that they were impressed by the production value of the show, they were challenged by the story material, and they just didn't know if it was going to work on the Fox network or not. They haven't officially said, "That's it. It's over." You never know how these things turn out, but at the moment I think Fox's attitude is probably wait and see.
How did the shoot go?
Moore: It was good. It was a very complicated shoot. It was juggling the three elements [the crew's mission, the virtual reality and the reality show] simultaneously, so we had to shoot enough footage to always have enough stuff that would play as the surveillance cameras and first-person confessionals, for the cast members to talk as if they were going into the confession room at the Big Brother house or something. So you had to have a lot of material to serve a lot of different purposes.
And the virtual stuff, we committed early on in the process to do it in CGI for almost all of it. Those sets were almost entirely green-screen sets, and we repurposed a video-game technology that my visual-effects supervisor was intrigued by as a way of doing cost-effective virtual effects. So it was a very complicated shoot with a lot of moving pieces. It was really fortunate that Peter Berg [Hancock] was the one who came in to direct it, because he was really able to juggle all these things simultaneously.
Did you alter the ending? Did anything change as a result of Fox choosing to air it as a movie versus them calling it a pilot and airing it as such?
Moore: No. To me, this will always be a pilot. I know that Fox calls it a movie, but this is a pilot. It ends with the setup for a series. That's how it should be viewed. /
Full Article:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/why-virtuality-creator-ro.php
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