Sofia Coppola relied on mostly natural lighting for Lost In Translation, Stanley Kubrick famously did it for Barry Lyndon, Steven Soderbergh only used ambient light for Full Frontal, and now another filmmaker aims to experiment with this challenge.
Bryan Singer is gearing up for his delayed Jack The Giant Killer adaptation and searching for a lead. As it was previously reported, he is considering Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass, Nowhere Boy) and Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man, X-Men: First Class) for our male lead and Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Priest) and Juno Temple (Greenberg, Atonement) for the princess role.
As a little Christmas present, Singer confirmed his use of the EPIC Red cameras on the official forums (via Bleeding Cool) and had this to add:
I’m very much looking forward to using the EPIC Red for my next movie Jack the Giant Killer which will be shot in, what else, 3D. The camera’s incredibly compact size and extraordinary resolution are ideal for the 3D format.
But more importantly Jack the Giant Killer is my first movie set in a time before electricity. The EPIC’s extraordinary exposure latitude will allow me to more effectively explore the use of natural light.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what Singer does with this method. A director stretching his limits can often deliver positive results. If you unaware with the story, Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) did the most recent rewrite of Darren Lemke‘s script, with additional help from Mark Bomback (Unstoppable, Live Free or Die Hard). Check out a synopsis below:
The original Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale centered around a boy who exchanged a cow for magical beans. After the beans grew into a gigantic beanstalk, Jack climbed it to find a huge house with a giant living inside it, which Jack then began to pilfer. The story ends with Jack killing the giant in self-defense, kind of. A variation on the story, Jack the Giant Killer, has Jack venturing into a land of giants and slaying them in increasingly gruesome ways. The new film is a combination of the two.
The 8-9 month shoot is looking at a 2011 start in England.
Are you looking forward to Singer’s lighting approach for Jack The Giant Killer?