Oscar Winning VFX Supervisor Joins WONDER WOMAN Team

Oscar Winning VFX Supervisor Joins WONDER WOMAN Team

Wonder Woman was thrown into chaos for a while when Michelle MacLaren parted ways with Warner Bros. over "creative differences", but was quickly replaced by Patty Jenkins. Now, the 2017 release has attracted an award winning VFX Supervisor, so hit the jump for details...

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By JoshWilding - Aug 09, 2015 10:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman
Source: Variety
Wonder Woman will apparently begin shooting as early as this Fall in London, and while Gal Gadot and Chris Pine are currently the only confirmed cast members, a very interesting behind the scenes addition has been made to the movie according to Variety. The trade reports that Bill Westenhofer is going to serve as the VFX Supervisor, and while this normally wouldn't be a major piece of news, his past credits make this worth getting excited over. Westenhofer won Oscars for his work on Life of Pi and The Golden Compass, and was also nominated for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He's currently hard at work on Duncan Jones' Warcraft too. Could the fact that each of the movies listed about have included photo-realistic animals or monsters be an indication about what we should expect to see in Wonder Woman? We'll have to wait and see...
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Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 8/9/2015, 10:25 AM
Life of Pie was great and had great SFX.....
TronVin
TronVin - 8/9/2015, 10:34 AM
This film will look amazing.

Lemons
Lemons - 8/9/2015, 10:37 AM
Omg, if they put in mythological creatures, I'm gonna be so happy!
BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 8/9/2015, 10:37 AM
This will be on par, visual wise with Suicide Squad and BvS. Great addition! Welcome to the DCEU!
MrSnrub
MrSnrub - 8/9/2015, 10:38 AM
Can't wait to see what the mythical creatures and Themyscira will look like. Amazing.

Lemons
Lemons - 8/9/2015, 10:43 AM
@0megaDaGr0dd Ha! That's a good point.
Battabing
Battabing - 8/9/2015, 10:43 AM
Oh yes!!

Would love to see some crazy shit like this:
NocturnalPRIME
NocturnalPRIME - 8/9/2015, 10:43 AM
"Wonder Woman was thrown into chaos for a while when Michelle MacLaren parted ways with Warner Bros. over "creative differences",..."

that's such an inflammatory statement, thrown into chaos my ass, Patty Jenkins was announced as the replacement 2 days later.
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 8/9/2015, 10:44 AM
@0megaDaGr0dd LMAO

"This is cool, but I'm also a little jealous someone like this doesn't work on an MCU movie."
arseven1974
arseven1974 - 8/9/2015, 10:44 AM
Wow..Great news indeed. So pumped..The red capes are indeed coming
Nickk
Nickk - 8/9/2015, 10:46 AM
infinite do you have a really big fetish with the asians lol!!!!
soberchimera
soberchimera - 8/9/2015, 10:46 AM
Hopefully the movie will be based off George Perez's first arc in his WW run with Ares, Deimos, and Phobos as the villains.
Battabing
Battabing - 8/9/2015, 10:47 AM
It'll be interesting to see how different DC's mythological hero will be depicted compared to Marvel's.

Heh, well, it's a pretty low bar.
NELLOGISTICS
NELLOGISTICS - 8/9/2015, 10:48 AM
I'm more interested in who they get for Aquaman.
DeusExSponge
DeusExSponge - 8/9/2015, 10:48 AM
Damn... That's one nice resume he's got there! This movie is going have some awesome CG!
Battabing
Battabing - 8/9/2015, 10:50 AM
I just wanted to post this here.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/9/2015, 10:52 AM
People seem to be more excited for visual effects over storytelling and character depiction....WHAT?!?!?
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 8/9/2015, 10:52 AM
Look how Omega is trolling hard to taint a good news for DC. Talked shit enough on F4 threads?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/9/2015, 10:57 AM
Everybody excited about run of the mill visual FX news and im waiting on character and storytelling development details like
arseven1974
arseven1974 - 8/9/2015, 10:58 AM
Marvel retards still trying to find faults even in this great piece of news
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 8/9/2015, 10:58 AM
Life if pi was OK movie but visuals were stunning and probably only movie which I liked in 3D.

Can't wait for set pics of this movie.
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 8/9/2015, 11:00 AM
@Omarvls

Where are you now when Marvel fanatics are trolling here?
Guess you are waiting for only DC trolling.
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 8/9/2015, 11:00 AM
Very much looking forward to this movie. Although I don't much like what they've done with WW in the comics as of late so maybe I shouldn't be. Oh well still beats villains.
MrSnrub
MrSnrub - 8/9/2015, 11:00 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred

idk, maybe because it's an article focusing on THE VFX on the film?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/9/2015, 11:04 AM
@MrSnrub well.....maybe I'd rather have an article focused on storytelling details as VFX are habitual and routine. VFX supervisors are an expected asset of any film. It's cool news but, I think story trumps this.
misterbatman212
misterbatman212 - 8/9/2015, 11:06 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred

well maybe once we get some story telling details then..... maybe we will get an article on that?
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