Rick Baker Talks Men In Black 3 Aliens And Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Rick Baker Talks Men In Black 3 Aliens And Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Visual effects expert Rick Baker sat down to talk a little bit about his work on Men In Black 3, he also discussed his thoughts on Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes after having worked on Planet Of The Apes With Tim Burton.

By WaylonJones - Sep 27, 2011 11:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Men in Black
Source: Shock Till You Drop


While talking with Shock Till You Drop Rick Baker talked a little bit about his alien designs for Men In Black 3. Baker said that since the movie will be based out of the 60's he wanted to designs aliens that refelct that era with more B movie designs.



Said Baker:

"The thing that's cool is there is a time travel element [to the story]. Where I had fun is that we go back to the Men in Black headquarters of the '60s. The first thing I said is that we should have retro aliens, not aliens of 2012. More based on B-movies of the '50s and '60s. So, a lot of the aliens are based on that. Space suits with fishbowl helmets and ray guns."


Baker also spoke a little about going to see Rise Of The Planet Of the Apes. He worked with Tim Burton on Planet of The Apes and was skeptical about the film, but said the visual effects won him over and he really enjoyed the film.



On Seeing Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes:

"I did and I liked it. I went in totally expecting to hate it and loved it. I got a call from Fox very early on telling me about the project. 'It's going to be really great because we're not going to use any make-up for the apes' is what they told me. That sounded horrible and against what Planet of the Apes is. I didn't want to know about it. Then I went to see it and thought it was a terrific story and what WETA did was fantastic. Good filmmaking and I was happy to see that. It won me over."


Men In Black hits theater on May 25, 2012!


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