One day Jack happened to be at the town-hall when the magistrates were Years, so that all Cornwall was in despair. Their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his backĪt a time and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round Land, where he would furnish himself with whatever came in his way.Įverybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on The Mount, and whenever he wanted food he would wade over to the main. The waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge giant namedĬormoran. He was brisk and of a ready lively wit, so that nobody or But now it's just serendipitous I guess.When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land’s End ofĮngland, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only sonĬalled Jack. #JACK THE GIANT KILLER ORIGINAL STORY MOVIE#In fact, I probably would have been shy about jumping into a fairytale movie with all of the projects out there now - I might have actually backed away from it. And that's cool - it's a rensaissance of those kind of movies, and it's cool - I'm happy to be a part of two renaissances the comic book renaissance, and now this one. But are all just a function of Alice in Wonderland. ![]() The Fairytale Renaissance I was involved with this over two-and-a-half years ago, or even longer - I was flirting with it almost three years ago. That's the one thing, he's just tall, and when you're making a movie about giants, you tend to want to cast shorter guys, but he's a terrific actor. He did a great job on that film, and I just really like him as an actor. ![]() I've liked him since Skins and I was very supportive of his casting in X-Men: First Class. But in that way it's fascinating - I can see why Robert Zemeckis and James Cameron have started to shoot pictures this way." Casting Nicholas Hoult as Jack I met with a lot of people - a lot of people came in - and ultimately decided that he was right for the role. It forces the actors to regress to when they would play-act as kids or do minimalist theatre. But there's nothing when you are there other than Styrofoam and blocks. It takes you back to play-acting as a kid in your living room because you are running around and having to imagine that you are in Gantua and imagine that there are these weapons and all these giant things. I've just started my rehearsals with the principal cast on the performance capture stage and I wish you were here so I could show you some photos on my iPhone because they are so comical. And 3D came along and here we are with that." Performance Capture "It's fascinating. ![]() It's a live-action movie, but the giants are fully rendered CG characters driven by actors, and that intrigued me because I hadn't done that before and I wanted to work in that space. He just brought a very different perspective." The Process "It's my first time working in the performance capture space. It involved the same characters, but some we juggled around and switched around. It was very much a page-one situation a different storyline. ![]() The idea of that Wizard of Oz-style journey - you've got a beanstalk - what's up there?" The Script " Chris McQuarrie did a significant re-write for me. There was a script that existed a couple of years ago that I changed quite a bit. I'm also familiar with the Jack the Giant Killer myth from the 1700s. Why Make Jack the Giant Killer? "I don't know - I grew up reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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