Ridley Scott to direct 'Raised by Wolves', Sci-Fi drama series

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Wolfpack.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1bai20BTFo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Is Fimmel's scar getting worse or is that make-up? He almost looks like Corporal Hicks now in that Blomkamp concept art. 

A visitor to set today on #RaisedByWolves @tntdrama @warnermedia

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gy6XxgLT1/

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Is Fimmel's scar getting worse or is that make-up? He almost looks like Corporal Hicks now in that Blomkamp concept art. 

It has to be makeup

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Judging by that Instagram of Matias Varela you posted and the latest from Derek Ueckermann, it looks like they are back at Cape Town Film Studios, doing studio filming again:

Stage 4 Cape Town Film Studios

And... Action...!! #filmmaking #arri #rbw #panavised #panavision

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1inx04j8Yq/

Looks like they are still using Ridley and Wolski's multiple camera setup.

It [Raised by Wolves Block 1] was fairly unconventional, to say the least! 6 cameras, one take on every scene and 4 days ahead of schedule amazing thing to be a part of!

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Multiple cameras, one take on each scene and ahead of schedule. Scott's style which I have to say sometimes is worrying. I prefer old-school Scott who took his time during Blade Runner. We all know that Scott loves spontaneity but does he still do rehearsals? I hope he does because as Willem Dafoe said recently in the interview: Maybe because I'm theatre actor I like rehearsal. You can't ruin spontaneity with the rehearsal. You can only frame things more precisely so you can live in a fuller way inside of the score. And I agree with that.

Willem speaks about rehearsal process at 8:14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04vKbBoKhk

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Multiple cameras, one take on each scene and ahead of schedule. Scott's style which I have to say sometimes is worrying. I prefer old-school Scott who took his time during Blade Runner.

On Blade Runner it was like 20 takes on average, way behind schedule and over budget. But I guess he had to change his style if he wanted to continue working as a director though. Pity.

You can sometimes see the actors struggle in his later films. Accents often change throughout the film or you get shitty performances out of very good actors because they didn't have time to rehearse and prepare properly.

Don't think he even does rehearsals anymore.

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20 takes is nothing for David Fincher

In Kigdom of Heaven (probably my favourite Scott's film next to Blade Runner) special features actors did rehearsal while reading the script and talking with Scott:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWybjzib0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDHjSdmB9c

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In Kigdom of Heaven (probably my favourite Scott's film next to Blade Runner) special features actors did rehearsal while reading the script and talking with Scott:

Yeah, I think Kingdom of Heaven is his best period drama. Better than Gladiator IMO. I think at that point he still did rehearsals (as your videos show) and definitely more than one take. Here's a quote from Joaquin Phoenix on Gladiator just five years prior to Kingdom.

The first scene that I did, I was really nervous, and we shot, I don't know, an unbelievable amount of takes. A shocking amount. Over and over again. And at some point at the end, after hours, he finally said, "Okay, we got it." And then later on, when we were working on the film, he told me that he hadn't been putting film in the camera for like the first 30 takes.

20 takes is nothing for David Fincher

Does he still do a huge amount of takes per scene though? He and Scott were both heavily influenced by Stanley Kubrick who was the king of mega-takes.

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Speaking at an FYC event for his Netflix original series "Mindhunter" on Friday night, Fincher explained how much time he spent capturing one nine-and-a-half-minute scene for Season 1. Shot with three cameras all running at once, Fincher put his three-person cast and many more crew members through 75 takes before he was ready to call it quits.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/mindhunter-david-fincher-75-takes-one-scene-1201970670/

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75 takes is crazy for a TV series. But I think the main issue with Scott on Blade Runner (and Alien) was not so much the amount of takes but rather the amount of time he took to set up each scene. The bulk of each night's shooting time was spent getting the lighting and props just right. And that is why it looks so incredible. Fast forward to Alien: Covenant and you now have a lot of very average shots mixed-in with Scott's otherwise awesome cinematography.

With regards to rehearsals, in the Prometheus documentary Rafe Spall says there were no rehearsals. Lots of stunt rehearsals though but that's not something you can ever skimp on.

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No rehearsals? I wonder how Scott would tackle the opening fighting scene in The Revenant which took "only"one month of rehearsals:

Because cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was committed to using only natural light to shoot the film, the window to capture a scene of this magnitude was extremely small. Should the entire one-shot scene go wrong or lose valuable light, the entire sequence would have to wait another day for just the right light.

https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/arts/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-revenant-movie

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I think for fighting and stunt scenes Scott will still do rehearsals. The Covenant documentary shows Michael Fassbender performing rehearsals for that android Kung-Fu fighting scene. It's more like the ordinary dialogue scenes in which he has done away with rehearsals.

Back to shooting forest scenes again on RBW:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wQEsLjdAo/


And Fimmel already has another sci-fi gig lined-up:

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1166865304741236736

And bizarrely the synopses for Zone 414 goes like this:

Androids are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious planet. Residents of the small town of Eden hope they've left their fugitive pasts behind them but soon discover that it can catch up with them. Special Ops agent is on the run after assassinating a powerful figure in Eastern Europe.

Zone 414 is set in the near future in a colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots. When its creator's daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael (Fimmel), to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self-aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter. Moving through the dangerous iron jungle, they rapidly piece together the mystery, uncovering a crime that leads them to question the origins of Zone 414 and the true purpose behind the "City of Robots." Principal photography is set to begin in November.

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You're right regarding stunt scenes but I cannot imagine Scott rehearsing for one month to shoot one long scene. Not Ridley He would say something like: just shoot the f**ker!

Androids are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious planet

Is this for real?

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You're right regarding stunt scenes but I cannot imagine Scott rehearsing for one month to shoot one long scene. Not Ridley He would say something like: just shoot the f**ker!

Is this for real?

F*ck knows, the synopses has changed since yesterday:



The Deadline synopses is probably accurate but still eerily similar to RBW.

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Zone 414 is set in the near future in a colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots. When its creator's daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael (Fimmel), to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self-aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter. Moving through the dangerous iron jungle, they rapidly piece together the mystery, uncovering a crime that leads them to question the origins of Zone 414 and the true purpose behind the "City of Robots." Principal photography is set to begin in November.

This might be more like cyber noir.