For their debut feature film, the French directing team of Pascal Sid and Julien Lacombe are certainly swinging for the fences.
Variety reports the duo have enlisted model/actress Laetitia Casta to star in their forthcoming suspense film "Behind The Walls." The 3D fantasy film takes place in 1922 and centers on "a young novelist who moves to a creepy village to write a book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares." There is no word yet on just how they will achieve both a period film and dazzling 3D effects with just $5 million. Maybe $5 million goes much further in France than it does on this side of the ocean? It's safe to assume the 3D effects will be run through some kind of post-production process, and perhaps they'll rummage through some attics for the period gear.
The film is slated to be released in the early part of 2011.
6/03/2010
Some French Dudes Are Going To Try And Make A Period Based 3D Movie For $5 Million With Laetitia Casta
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Actually they won't add the 3D in post-prod, they will shoot with stereoscopic cameras. Apparently they thought deeply about it, storyboarding and preping heavily etc. because they said that just changing lenses on such a film is much more work than on a traditional shoot, as you have to change 2 lenses and then resynchronize them.
They also said that their initial budget was 2.5 million euros and that shooting in 3D just increased it to 3.5 million euros (so $5 million).
It's a small budget but a big budget in France is around the 20 million euros mark (or more, of course, but for example, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs was done for 27 million euros), so it's not ridiculous either.
This information comes from this french website : http://www.filmsactu.com/dossier-cinema-derriere-les-murs-de-la-3d-a-la-francaise-9919.htm (there are preproduction designs there as well).
don't worry guys, if its any good, they'll dumb it down spend $100m shooting it in English for the American market!
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