While hyping his latest project, the Billie Eilish Cinematic Concert Experience Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles on Disney Plus, director Robert Rodriguez touched on this Decembers The Book of Boba Fett, and it’s safe to say he’s excited and confident about the results of his efforts.
“can’t say anything about it at all right now, but it’s coming out in December… Wait until you see what’s coming. It’s going to blow your mind. That’s all I can say. I can talk it up all I want, because I know it over-delivers. It way over-delivers. People are going to be so pumped when they see it.”
Rodriguez went on to discuss StageCraft and how despite its obvious advantages, it’s not necessarily the best optin for every format.
“At first I thought maybe it made the most sense for a series because you could have loads that you could reuse and places you can come back to often that would be impossible to get to on a regular basis in a series. I don’t know if I would use it very much in a movie where it’s just one-off scenes that are done. They’re only a couple minutes long and then you never go back to that location again. Like on a sequel to ‘We Can Be Heroes’ even I was thinking ‘Would I even use the volume? Or would I shoot a traditional green screen again?’ Because I got some pretty cool stuff.”
“What’s different about volume is you still have to do the work of the visual effects. It’s just, am I going to do it before I shoot? Or am I going to do it after? On a TV series, you can pretty much figure out you’re going to need these certain things. On a movie, I like green screen more. So I can punt what that thing’s going to look like until later. I can kind of start lining the foreground with the kids, 11 kids in the foreground. I can light that on a set and then really dial in the background later.”
“If I did that in the volume, I’d have to figure all that out in pre-production. That means that pushes your movie shoot date really far back. If you have little kids, those kids are going to be so old by the time you finish all your pre-production. So it kind of depends on the movie and the show and the tool. Jon [Favreau] found the best way to use it for Mandalorian and now Boba Fett. I think that was a really great thing, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a tool that fits every project.”
No word on Rodriguez returning for the third season of The Mandalorian, but either way we only have to wait four months for The Book of Boba Fett.
- Hardcover Book
- Ireland, Justina (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 03/01/2022 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
