–Comics2Film has an interview up with Dick Durock, the lead in the Swamp Thing movies and TV show:
“The costume of course was zip-on and zip-off, but all the appliances and the makeup had to stay on. In the first feature it took close to four hours. In the second feature it took close to two hours. By the time we did the series, which ironically was by far the best makeup and costume, we had it down to about 45 minutes,” the actor said.
“But it was still tough. At the end of the day you’re wearing eighty pounds of wet latex, plus all the chemicals on your face. It sure isn’t sunglasses and autographs, I’ll tell ya.”
The TV show comes out on DVD later this month.
–WatchmenComicMovie.com has another report from one of the extras working on the film:
But it really hit home once I (and my fellow extras) arrived at the Wardrobe Room for a costume fitting. All the wardrobe people were at lunch so we found ourselves walking along the costume racks, looking for someone to sign us in. The room was cavernous and there were thousands of costumes. Clothes from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, hats and coats, boots. New York City cop uniforms, Vietnam and WWII army uniforms… The scope of the production became suddenly apparent. Then I found a rack with costumes labeled ‘Rorschach’, ‘The Comedian’, ‘Laurie’, ‘Nite Owl’… here were the actual set worn costumes for these timeless characters. And I said to myself, “MAN I’M GOING TO BE IN WATCHMEN!”
–USA Today reports on the X-Files film, complete with a picture from the sequel to the 1998 film:
Carter refuses to divulge any plot points of the movie, but says he wanted to make the film immediately after the show ended. A contractual dispute with 20th Century Fox kept it on the shelf until the case was settled out of court.
He says the delay may turn out to be a blessing.
“There’s a whole audience I want to introduce X-Files to,” Carter says. “There were kids who couldn’t watch it on TV because it was too scary. Now they’re in college. I wanted a movie that everyone could go to.”
–Chris over at Movie Marketing Madness has another one of his excellent in-depth reports up, this time for the film Cloverfield that all the kids are talking about (or at least the people I work with are).
–Tom McLean has a lengthy post on why the writer’s strike won’t hurt Comic-Con.
