It Goes By So Fast: One Hundred People, One Hundred Years, One Little Snare Drum

This isn’t exactly green, but it couldn’t be more Human. One drum, one hundred people, age 1-100. Pure Awesome.

Is Helix A Green(er) Film Production? Will Be Shot In One Take

Writer/Director Aram Rappaport is shooting a movie in Chicago and he’s doing it in one take. His 100 minute thriller Helix, will be filmed in one continuous shot five different times, once a day over five days. I’m guessing they will pick the best take and release it, though if they were smart they’d include all five takes on an ultra lux special edition DVD.

Film sets have pretty large environmental footprints- they suck up energy running lights, equipment, and trailers, burn through diesel running trucks and generators, and pump pollution into the air with explosions and stunts. Limiting shooting time to five days vastly reduces the environmental impact of your standard movie. Post production consists of a few guys in an editing suite running Final Cut Pro on a desktop Mac and will be particularly light on Helix considering there won’t be any cuts in the movie. They’ll do some color correction, sweeten the sound, and add the titles and credits and export it out ready to rock.

I hope the movie doesn’t suck, I’d like to see more like this.

Link [Wired]

Bad News Planeteers, Captain Planet Will NOT Be Going Live Action

Damn. The rumors of an upcoming live action Captain Planet and the Planeteers appears to be false.

Ecorazzi was the first to report the news that Warner Brothers was planning on producing a live action movie with the blue skinned, green haired eco super hero scheduled for late 2009. They had it:

Fire up the rumor mill, Planeteers! A recent entry to the somewhat-reliable Wikipedia info on Captain Planet (I check it everyday) says something interesting about our favorite green animated superhero.

Warner Brothers studio announced on January 18, 2008 that a live action movie is to be made and is scheduled for late 2009. The movie is currently in pre-production.

Oh. Dead. God. They can’t be serious, can they? A live-action version of the blue-skin, green-haired protector of Mother Earth and his five planeteers?

But Gristmill went and got all journalistic and called up Warner Brothers to confirm the news and came up with the unfortunate report that the rumors weren’t true.

Sadly, though, I must report that I then contacted the Warner folks (and their bros) and found out that this rumor is, in fact, “untrue.”

I know, I know. I too am crushed. But before you get your superhero-tights in a bunch, consider this: perhaps by our powers combined we could petition them to reconsider?

Damn. Damn damn damn.

Link [Gristmill] & [Ecorazzi]