Dapper Dan
04-15-2005, 12:54 PM
Morgan on the Final Destination 3 Accident
Source: Sci Fi Wire
April 15, 2005
Sci Fi Wire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30842) visited the set of New Line Cinema's Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=7302) and talked to writer Glen Morgan about the big accident of the third installment. Here's a clip:
Glen Morgan—who with partner James Wong is returning to the Final Destination franchise by writing and producing the upcoming third installment—showed SCI FI Wire a glimpse of the sequel's opening disaster, which takes place on a roller coaster and will be shot in a way that hasn't been seen before. "It's not necessarily groundbreaking, but it hasn't been done before, you know, in this way," Morgan said in an interview during a break in filming on the sequel's Vancouver, B.C., set on April 13. (Production started this month and will run through June.)
There's much more of what you can expect to see in the accident by clicking here (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30842).
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/news_thumbnails/finaldestination2_tn.jpghttp://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/images/shadow_thumbnail_right1.gifhttp://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/images/shadow_thumbnail_bottom1.gifFinal 3 Is A Real Coaster
Glen Morgan—who with partner James Wong is returning to the Final Destination franchise by writing and producing the upcoming third installment—showed SCI FI Wire a glimpse of the sequel's opening disaster, which takes place on a roller coaster and will be shot in a way that hasn't been seen before. "It's not necessarily groundbreaking, but it hasn't been done before, you know, in this way," Morgan said in an interview during a break in filming on the sequel's Vancouver, B.C., set on April 13. (Production started this month and will run through June.)
Like the previous two films, the movie begins with the main character—in this case, high school senior Wendy, played by newcomer Mary Elizabeth Winstead—experiencing a horrific disaster in which she and her friends all die—then realizing it's only a premonition of death. In the first film the disaster was a plane crash. In the second, a multi-vehicle pileup on a freeway. In Final Destination 3, it's a disaster on a roller coaster, Morgan said. It all fits, he added.
"I don't know if we ever successfully pull it off, but Jim and I like to have themes," Morgan said. "And this one, for the Wendy character, is about loss of control. ... You got a roller coaster, [and] psychologists will tell you that's why people hate 'em. Why you're afraid of them. Or why you're afraid to fly. Because you have no control. And for me, ... when I'm going up any roller coaster, I just say, 'I want out.' But I'm not getting out. That's just torture. ... It's unbearable. I'm nervous talking about it. ... If you look at death, that's [the same thing]. ... All of a sudden. I feel that if it wants us, [it's going to get us]. I think that's why the franchise kind of works."
SCI FI Wire viewed a "pre-visualization" of the sequence, or animated storyboard, which takes place on a fictional roller coaster with a 200-foot drop, corkscrews and a high loop. The speeding coaster loses hydraulic pressure, causing restraining harnesses to relax and wheels to fall off. As the coaster accelerates into its various turns and whirls, high school students fly out, fall, get run over and wind up hanging upside down by their fingers. Some die gruesome deaths.
To shoot the scene, the filmmakers will use a combination of an actual roller coaster (at Vancouver's Pacific National Exposition amusement park), computer-generated extensions, wire stunts, computer animation and actual actors in simulated cars shot against a green screen. "It's complicated," Morgan said. "We're going to have two weeks of green screen on hydraulic things, and CGI."
Added producer Craig Perry: "Actors being hung upside down, being yanked out of cars, cars falling, flipping. It's good times." Final Destination 3, which Wong will direct, is slated for a 2006 release.
Source: Sci Fi Wire
April 15, 2005
Sci Fi Wire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30842) visited the set of New Line Cinema's Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=7302) and talked to writer Glen Morgan about the big accident of the third installment. Here's a clip:
Glen Morgan—who with partner James Wong is returning to the Final Destination franchise by writing and producing the upcoming third installment—showed SCI FI Wire a glimpse of the sequel's opening disaster, which takes place on a roller coaster and will be shot in a way that hasn't been seen before. "It's not necessarily groundbreaking, but it hasn't been done before, you know, in this way," Morgan said in an interview during a break in filming on the sequel's Vancouver, B.C., set on April 13. (Production started this month and will run through June.)
There's much more of what you can expect to see in the accident by clicking here (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30842).
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/news_thumbnails/finaldestination2_tn.jpghttp://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/images/shadow_thumbnail_right1.gifhttp://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/images/shadow_thumbnail_bottom1.gifFinal 3 Is A Real Coaster
Glen Morgan—who with partner James Wong is returning to the Final Destination franchise by writing and producing the upcoming third installment—showed SCI FI Wire a glimpse of the sequel's opening disaster, which takes place on a roller coaster and will be shot in a way that hasn't been seen before. "It's not necessarily groundbreaking, but it hasn't been done before, you know, in this way," Morgan said in an interview during a break in filming on the sequel's Vancouver, B.C., set on April 13. (Production started this month and will run through June.)
Like the previous two films, the movie begins with the main character—in this case, high school senior Wendy, played by newcomer Mary Elizabeth Winstead—experiencing a horrific disaster in which she and her friends all die—then realizing it's only a premonition of death. In the first film the disaster was a plane crash. In the second, a multi-vehicle pileup on a freeway. In Final Destination 3, it's a disaster on a roller coaster, Morgan said. It all fits, he added.
"I don't know if we ever successfully pull it off, but Jim and I like to have themes," Morgan said. "And this one, for the Wendy character, is about loss of control. ... You got a roller coaster, [and] psychologists will tell you that's why people hate 'em. Why you're afraid of them. Or why you're afraid to fly. Because you have no control. And for me, ... when I'm going up any roller coaster, I just say, 'I want out.' But I'm not getting out. That's just torture. ... It's unbearable. I'm nervous talking about it. ... If you look at death, that's [the same thing]. ... All of a sudden. I feel that if it wants us, [it's going to get us]. I think that's why the franchise kind of works."
SCI FI Wire viewed a "pre-visualization" of the sequence, or animated storyboard, which takes place on a fictional roller coaster with a 200-foot drop, corkscrews and a high loop. The speeding coaster loses hydraulic pressure, causing restraining harnesses to relax and wheels to fall off. As the coaster accelerates into its various turns and whirls, high school students fly out, fall, get run over and wind up hanging upside down by their fingers. Some die gruesome deaths.
To shoot the scene, the filmmakers will use a combination of an actual roller coaster (at Vancouver's Pacific National Exposition amusement park), computer-generated extensions, wire stunts, computer animation and actual actors in simulated cars shot against a green screen. "It's complicated," Morgan said. "We're going to have two weeks of green screen on hydraulic things, and CGI."
Added producer Craig Perry: "Actors being hung upside down, being yanked out of cars, cars falling, flipping. It's good times." Final Destination 3, which Wong will direct, is slated for a 2006 release.