Vanaf 20 juli zal The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) in de Nederlandse bioscopen te zien zijn en deze verteld het verhaal van een reus die weigert kinderen op te eten, en een vriendschap krijgt met een meisje dat Sophie heet. Vandaag is er een clip, featurette en een interview met Steven Spielberg verschenen en deze kan je hier onder bekijken.

Update: clip toegevoegd.

Update: clip toegevoegd.

Question: With such advances to technology, the challenge is to balance those advancements with the humanity of the storytelling. How do you find that balance between pushing forward while still keeping the heart?

STEVEN SPIELBERG: The whole nature of my approach to The BFG was to be able to use technology to advance the heart and create a flawless transposition between the genius of Mark Rylance and the genius of WETA, as they were able to digitally translate Mark's soul onto film and the character of The BFG. So, all the work we did was to get back to basics. I knew Mark was really going to knock this out of the ballpark, but I didn't want the ball to land at the end of a motion capture volume. I wanted the ball to land in the lap of the audience. WETA paid more careful attention to how to preserve what Mark had given us on the day. Their artists did an amazing job translating Mark accurately. About 95% of what Mark gave me and Ruby [Barnhill] is on the screen now, and that's because technology today allowed us to do it. Five years ago, we could not have made The BFG this way. The technology wasn't there for it.