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Jan202009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 1:17AM Concept Art from Zemeckis' 'Christmas Carol'
We'll get another taste of Robert Zemeckis' obsession with performance capture or motion capture (Mo-Cap to his friends) when his 3-D version of A Christmas Carol is released later this year. Like Beowulf and The Polar Express, the project is incredibly ambitious, and the one benefit Zemeckis has this time around is the widespread popularity and familiarity of the story.
If everything comes together, this should be a screamin' hit, and that would allow Zemeckis to take even more risks and acheive an even greater technological feat the next time.
We know the story and we know the cast: Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the three ghosts, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, and Bob Hoskins. About the only question mark is whether the visual effects will meet the story halfway or if the 21st century advancements take some of the charm out of a 175-year-old story.
Here's some new concept art from Disney, which we found over at The Moving Picture. This, of course, doesn't reflect any of the performance capture stuff, but it might reassure people who think this remake might be a little out of character for Dickens' classic tale.
Reader Comments (6)
This looks great and all, but I'm still holding out hope that we'll get another Vince Vaughn Christmas movie under the tree this year.
Any hope that will happen?
Hey, if they made another one after the disastrous Fred Claus and it made a ton of money, Vince Vaughn won't have a choice. And we won't have a chance.
Honestly, all this motion capture stuff from Robert Zemeckis is annoying me. He's such a great filmmaker, I wish he would make another live-action movie at some point. His recent stuff just doesn't really appeal to me.
Sweet. I'm hoping that when my kids get old enough, we can all have a Vaughn-A-Thon at Christmas, instead of actually, you know, talking to one another and exchanging gifts, and the like.
Lillian James:</B> I agree with you on Zemeckis. He's like James Cameron and other great directors of the nineties, in that he's hiding behind "art" to somehow prove that he's still a relevant filmmaker.
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