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hi guys this is brian from the verge and we're here with a writer director david to e of the upcoming riddick thanks to taking the time to sit down with us Brian hello hello sir and just real quick the restricted red band trailer just came out there's a head gag it was going to watch that is awesome as I want to say that once again it's it played well on a child plays big an H all ok cool so now so let's talk about you know about Riddick in general right it's been nine years since chronicles came out there's always been talk about anyone coming up you know you've mentioned it Vince mention it what made 2013 the time for attacks you come together well we've been you know for all we didn't think it would but slowly we heard this drum be from the fans of more ridic please alright I hear it but then here's a la because he's got that big ass facebook page right right and so you know it was something that's look I love the character in the world's we create vind us to and and the fans were out there saying the same thing so we wanted to pay them off and you know to not do a third Riddick movie would have felt unfinished it would have felt unfinished in terms of the story the macro story we're trying to tell and it would have been unsatisfying for us and our fans mm-hmm so we said we're going to do this even if it's over the you know the dead body of you know some people so we did it is not a studio movie this time but is in the independent movie this time and we raised their own money I wrote this the spec of the the script on spec and only when it was going right as an independent movie does the studio step back in and say well okay can we distribute it for you yeah we'd like the help that might be good and that's actually a good place that's a good relationship because it gives me total freedom on the set you know I had rights one past the script one tweak and then we were shooting and then when it came to lock in the picture I didn't have to focus group it to death I didn't have to modernize my movie like that I didn't have to turn it into milk you know modernization is fine for milk but bad movies didn't have to do any of that I just like locked picture when I wanted lock picture I said there's the cut let's go there were there are things that you would have had to cut out I mean obviously there's you know I'm sure after judging that trailers I'm going to be some great you know violence or there if the math we reach a 13 or if you're pg-13 we have sacrificed a lot but one of the things by by making for less money this time closer and budget to pitch black and chronicles it gives us the freedom to go our gives us freedom to do whatever we damn well want I want to talk about that because it is you know modestly budgeted compared you know to the Chronicles in this other big movies but you know it's not skimping on scope at all you know how are you able to go and like you know bring both of those together on the smaller budget is it affects is that you know advances in technology it still affects have come down in price but it still affects can blow a budget real quick too and i still have 850 visual effects shots in the movie but it's just about you know care for that not running to ilm to do your effects not running to whether to do affects even though we all wish we could it would be the easy way to go I've got to go for the smaller companies that have talent and actually bring them up a step you know so and some of the Montreal houses the canadian house we looked out with their so it's a matter of like helping these guys these effects houses these small effects houses taking them with the movie to the next level and saying that if you do this well and if you guys burn around the clock on this movie you know you can you can be stepping in for the bigs 2 and they'll understand it and they'll embrace that that's excellent you know that's one way to do it and you shoot quick I shot this quicker than pitch black I've shot this in 47 days now how are you able to go and pull that off is there I know you shot this one was shot digitally correct yes u.s. position on the Alexa LX oh yeah okay that did that help just because you can keep rolling not to call you know I guess though you know it's like a comedy show where you just say keep keep coming up with gags right it's not that kind of speed it's maybe you speed up the lighting process a little bit and you streamline the post production pipeline but that really doesn't help me move fast so much faster on the set what I also moved faster is that you know I go in with a short script I go in with 106 pages something like that not trying to shoot 120 125 because I know I'm going to lose time anyway in the editing room I'm always losing scenes so I do better with a short script that I can embellish on the set right that's one way to keep it down and actors who want who want to work you know I could show up on time we want to work you see yourself shooting like a native imax if you have the budget the time to go into it in the future you don't need to they may argue with that but I've seen the results and the quality holds up the resolution holds up what kind of karkans back tied the film versus digital conversation at certain point almost in this film you know it's definitely for what I've seen so far on the trailers definitely feels grainy it feels you know has it has a real visceral aesthetic some people think about in digital do you as a filmmaker I mean you feel like we're completely beyond the point that's even a conversation there are aesthetic differences between the two mediums I'm just doing it because I know I have to move fast I know my I know I have 850 visual effects shots so I know my post production pipeline will be streamlined if I shoot digital sure so there's the call for me right there plus area just come out with the Alexa it was a beautiful camera by all accounts we could afford it we could for two or three camera bodies so we jumped on it we've jumped up and my DP who is a film guy says next show Alexa there you go yeah cool I think the the tide is turned on that they're not I think we're done bit thank you so much as a pleasure meet you youtube