Michel Gondry has started opening up on some info for Green Hornet finally. The movie has been pushed back to January 14, 2011 and we've been told we will see footage at Comic-Con. He talked about the 3D conversion the movie is going through and how it can be used for a technique called "Kato-vision"
Pictured is the stunt double for Kato, being played by Jay Chou
"Usually he spots out elements or details that he's going to use to his advantage. So, it's like a video game, but you go inside his eye. And especially with 3-D, it's going to be very effective because you're going to see all of the layers of the eye."
"[Kato] knows he's going to grab a guy by his hair and this guy by the neck [or] he's going to [take] this bottle and smash it on this guy. So, that's what he does and then he executes his plan."
"We always wanted to do ['The Green Hornet'] in 3-D," said Gondry. "In the early '70s, my grandfather was the President of the Stereo Club and so I grew up with 3-D, with Viewmaster and maybe five techniques to do 3-D with only one camera. There's tons of ways to do it, [but] there is some limitation. The way it was shot, we use lots of different [visual] fields. This is a way to shoot movies that transfers well into 3-D."
DogsOfWar-I must say this is the first good piece of news I have heard about this movie. The technique sounds very cool and 3D could help it be even better. Here's waiting for actual footage!