There’s beans, there’s a beanstalk… There’s not a cow. How similar is this to the tale we all know? Are there beans, a beanstalk and a cow and so on? As the afternoon progressed, we had the chance to sit with Singer and watch the shots unfold, and quizzed him during the long downtime between takes, asking about the concept behind this fantasy adventure, the benefits and challenges of shooting in 3D, the astonishing success of the X-Men series, and how best to kill time during a boring shoot. His eclectic body of work – from superheroes to psycho-thrillers, from heist flicks to historical dramas – makes him unique in Hollywood. A simple task for our heroes, maybe, but for a film crew shooting in 3D? That requires a whole day’s shoot.īut he’s also one of the most interesting, candid and eloquent directors working today. They’ll have all sorts of nightmarish monsters to face once they reach the top, but first, they have to get from one leaf to another. Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is on his way to rescue the princess from the giants, with elite guards Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and Craw (Eddie Marsan) in tow. It’s a tricky one, involving three actors, a wind machine and a bow-and-arrow. Today – an early summer afternoon in 2011 – they’ll be lucky to get one shot filmed.
‘The way he used to put down a storyboard and say “here’s the scene”, I can say “here’s the scene you’re about to play.”’
‘It’s a very Hitchcockian thing,’ he explains, describing the pre-capture animations used as guides for actors acting to eye-line marks, or performing in the void. It’s his first film in 3D, his first with motion capture technology, but he’s already a vocal fan. This is a radical re-vamp of the familiar Jack and the Beanstalk tale, told with swashbuckling derring-do and an epic sweep.
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The footage, two years away from theatrical release, is rudimentary at best, full of pre-vis effects and stock animation, but Singer’s imagination and rapid-fire chatter fill in the blanks.
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In a massive studio at Elstree, halfway through the shoot for Jack The Giant Slayer (then known as Jack The Giant Killer), he’s in his element, reviewing shots from the previous weeks on a flat-screen TV in a small tent that is dwarfed by the beanstalk cross-section outside.
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