05-20-2005, 07:17 AM
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Check out this interview with Avi Arad about the new X-Men movie: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/615/615826p1.html
He mentions this about Beast:
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IGNFF: Am I to assume this is a voiceover role with a CG character, or is there talk of make-up?
ARAD: No, there will be make-up and prostheses. It will be a combination of artforms to bring it to life, but a lot of it will maintain around his face – his eyes, his mouth, and so on. It will be very much like the kind of stuff we did with The Thing…
IGNFF: As a character, the Beast underwent a redesign a few years back to look more like the Ron Perlman Beast character from the Beauty and the Beast TV show from the late 80's…
ARAD: Right…
IGNFF: That more feline kind of look. Whereas the original blue version of the Beast looks much better in the sense that it wouldn't be perceived as ripping off the design from that TV show, which the current visual iteration of the character most certainly does.
ARAD: Right. What you'll see in the movie, it will be a combination of – we'll call it the "90's Beast" – more like, if you remember, from our animated show.
IGNFF: The classic more canine look…
ARAD: But even more important, it has the supreme intelligence look. You're going to get really close to his eyes, to his face, and so on. And obviously Kelsey has this delivery of a college professor. You expect his intelligence and warmth and calming ways, and as important with Beast is the way Beast reacts to adversity and violence, and so on. Knowing how powerful he is, he can almost be forgiving of it, and in some ways make fun of it in a gentle way without trying to hurt anybody.
IGNFF: As a character, I assume he's going to be presented as always being this blue, hairy version of the Beast – or is it showing the same transformation that the comics did years ago?
ARAD: You mean as young Hank?
IGNFF: Right.
ARAD: Ummmm… Well…
IGNFF: Since obviously a reference was made to the character in X2…
ARAD: Correct. So obviously, young Hank wouldn't be Kelsey… If there is a young Hank! If, if, if there is a young Hank! But the idea is that what you're going to see is that Beast is a major, major role, and I do believe we're going to outdo 1 and 2, because we have a bigger idea – a bigger concept 0 for this movie.
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