OK,Some Dude just sent Father Geek the following... Very interesting... Vanishing sausage,huh...A whole new version of the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" game...
Hello Ladies,
Some Dude is in back in the house. Last time I posted some Hollow Man info, late last year, I was met with much criticism as to the veracity of my report. Some claimed that I was either Verhoeven's bitch or a Sony plant. This time I expect more of the same, so in advance I'd just like to say "DEEEEEEEEEEEZ NUTS!"
And now to the story at hand.
Back in December I was conducting xome business in LA and managed to convince my friend Da Reprezenta to sneak me onto the Sony lot. Besides trying to spy on Party of Five and hanging out in Ecto-1 we were able to take a walk through the HUGE Hollow Man sets. Wow! I'm used to working on films that have no budget. The Hollow Man sets is crazy. The day I was there, they had just finished principal shooting and I think they were doing some second unit F/X stuff. A couple of the rooms were filled with broken candy glass and the walls were streaked in blood. Lots of blood.
Last night, Da Reprezenta informed me of several new bits of cool info regarding the FX work on the film. Turns out the CG guys have been studying tons of autopsy footage to get the gore just right. You thought that internal shot in "Three Kings" was cool? Whatever. We will see through the Hollow Man layer by layer. The FX guys are getting sick from watching all the autopsies.
This leads to the next bit of info, which may offend some of the more insecure fanboys. We've all heard stories of how actresses get to pick their body doubles, right? Well, the Hollow Man features a cinematic first. Since the Hollow Man will be anatomically correct, Kevin Bacon has final approval on the CG version of his dick. This is not a joke. (aside to all homophobes: why does everyone complain about Bacon's package in Wild Things? It was on screen for less than a second. Didn't you happen to notice all that hot lesbianism? Get your priorities together.) Apparently since the Hollow Man features layer by layer invisibility, there will be scenes with Bacon's sausage disintegrating. Ouch. What's that Warner Herzog says about new images? We need them or we will die. Paul Verhoeven's prepping the life support.
A quickie: As in my previous report the FX teams are not sure that some of their gorier stuff will make it, even though they haved toned some of it down. Keep your fingers crossed for a SE DVD if the MPAA worries about an invisible school shooting.
To wrap things up, the release date is set in stone as July 28. The Elixabeth Shue injury cost them about 6 weeks so the crew is working around the clock to make sure that Sony has a great summer flick.
Some Dude has left the stadium and is on his way to your Mom's house.
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