Bringing Brando back to life
File under 'Nerdy, but interesting'. The early word on Superman Returns is good, so far I haven't read a bad review. Personally…I can't wait. It appears to be satisfying the critics and fanboys alike… not an easy job, but if there was ever a dorky jewish kid from New Jersey that I would have picked to do it…. it would have been Brian Singer.
Over on the official Superman site (currently Hijacked by Lex Luthor no-less), there's a really interesting little making-of about how they used a combination of the original footage, and cgi to get Jor el (Marlon Brando) to give a new speech, and make him say the things Singer wanted him to say. Check it out here
The Brando footage was filmed for the original Richard Donner Superman, and Bryan Singer was granted full permission (by Donner himself) to use the footage however he wished. A large proportion of the footage that was filmed was never used, mainly as I undertsnad it because Brando's contract stipulated that he would recieve $400,000 for every minute he was on screen. But hey now he's dead, so the studios can do what they like. har de har har…
Also at the end of the clip there's a nice little 'build-up' of inside the fortress of solitude, putting brandos face into the ice. It's worth sticking around just for that.
If they ever release this technology publicly, i'd like a Brando desktop toy, so I can make him talk to me and say thing like 'Hey… come on… turn that frown upside down. Do you want to go dvd shopping at the weekend??' or atleast get him to give me Godfather speeches.
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