Ninja Assassin Effects Tech: John Gaeta Interview (Boing Boing Video)

Academy Award-winning special effects designer John Gaeta (Matrix, Speed Racer) talks with Boing Boing about the technology and the human talent behind the forthcoming movie Ninja Assassin, directed by James McTeigue.

Along the way, we explore a broader realm of questions about the future of games, movies, and interactive entertainment. Will movies become more like games, offering new ways for us to insert ourselves inside the stories? Who will create them, using what tools, and how will the experience be different? Will computer-generated actors replace human actors, or stunt persons -- or will the two realms overlap in ways we can't yet predict? All of this we ask of the guy who invented "bullet time."

Due in theaters this fall, director James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin follows the story of Raizo (played by Asian mega-popstar Rain), one of the world's most deadly assassins. As Gaeta explains in this video, the movie merges blindingly badass Bruce-Lee-esque martial arts stunt work with tastefully integrated "virtual" work.

BB blog post, with extended interview transcript of a longer conversation we had about the future of interactivity and "hybrid entertainment" -- and why Hollywood is, in Gaeta's words, "like a mule.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/bb-video-john-gaeta.html

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[beijingGoGo]

sharpproduction:

when do u see it even before the movie is air?

don't get mix up by the other ninjas' movie can?

IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!

[ahsonk]

1. Your reading my comment 2. Now your saying/thinking thats a stupid fact. 4. You didnt notice that i skipped 3. 5. Your checking it now. 6. Your smiling. 7. Your still reading my comment. 8. You know all you have read is true. 10. You didnt notice that i skipped 9. 11. Your checking it now. 12. You didnt notice there are only 10 facts Copy and paste to 1 other video, tomorrow will be your luckiest day...No Mater What!

[sharpproductions]

I saw a screening of Ninja Assassin. It was terrible! DON'T GO SEE IT!

Also, yes the kill the clan in the end, but not before they kill the girl! oh nooo.

[thpt]

Quite possibly the most boring voice-over EVER.

[SaysYtrt]

where can you learn to fight like that???

[Dragknight11]

It was a joke.... Whenever someone says first the get a down thumb...

[Docthewrench]

crused how? I get cursed at everyday means nothing so curse away

[Dragknight11]

first any one who puts me down is cursed...