Anyway, I just talked to Peter Hyams a few minutes ago, and he assured me that that was the poster art we'll be seeing. Cool, eh? Also we talked a bit about the film. I had done some poking around, and had heard from someone that the movie felt quite scary, and he did say that that is what they are aiming for. He also said that what he was aiming to do was to make a different kind of Schwarzenegger film... One that was a great film that Schwarzenegger was in, but that isn't what we would commonly think of as an Arnold vehicle.
Next we talked a bit about the script by Andrew Marlowe. I've been a bit of a fan of that script, but thought that the draft I read needed a bit more to it. I met Andrew back at the AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL & WRITER'S CONFERENCE last year, and he had told me that they were doing quite a bit of work to make the script less ACTIONY and more psychological and taut. Peter said that when they brought him aboard the project they were not just hiring a director, but a writer of 12 films as well. He said that when he came on there were specific changes that were going to be made or else he wasn't going to direct it... and the changes were made, specifically to the dialogue of the film.
All in all, I'd say Peter seems cautiously pleased with how things are going. He said in a "knocking on wood, I hate to say it" sort of way that what he has shown people has made them go "APESHIT" over the film, but the more of that he hears the more antsy he gets. I commented that he probably surrounds himself with wood to knock on, and he said, "If you knew me, you'd know just how superstitious I am."
Good, for a film about the End of the World... we need a superstitious sort of guy leading us down the path. This is definately a project we need to keep our eyes on...
