The director of The Factor 2011, a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Factor, regrets FX choices and the shortage of a sequel
A dozen years have passed by because the launch of director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 basic The Factor (watch the prequel HERE). Wanting again on the mission now, van Heijningen has some regrets over the way in which the particular results had been dealt with on the movie, and that he was by no means capable of make the sequel that they had plans for.
Directed by van Heijningen from a screenplay written by Eric Heisserer and based mostly on the brief story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (utilizing the pen title Don A. Stuart), The Factor 2011 has the next synopsis: After Norwegian researchers uncover an alien ship buried within the ice, paleontologist Kate Lloyd joins the staff on the remoted Arctic outpost to research. She finds an organism that seems to have perished within the crash eons in the past however, in reality, is about to awake. Free of its icy jail, the insidious life-form goes on the assault. Paranoia spreads like wildfire among the many crew as they battle to outlive towards a creature that assumes the shapes of its victims.
The movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Seim, Kim Bubbs, Jørgen Langhelle, Jan Gunnar Røise, Stig Henrik Hoff, Kristofer Hivju, Jo Adrian Haavind, Carsten Bjørnlund, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Ole Martin Aune Nilsen, and Michael Brown.
Talking with Syfy Wire, van Heijningen stated, “We fantasized a few sequel. Kate would escape and can be picked up at sea and tries to warn the world at an oil platform close to the South Pole. The monster would break free on the the rig. I favored the oil rig mayhem thought.“
The sequel didn’t occur as a result of The Factor 2011 was a vital and monetary failure – however the director hopes it will likely be re-discovered by viewers who aren’t “too shut” to Carpenter’s movie to go together with his tackle the idea. “The Carpenter model was so good and plenty of followers had been virtually offended by the prequel and didn’t see the need for a follow-up. However now I totally perceive that it was a bit early.“
One subject plenty of viewers have with the movie is the truth that the sensible particular results created by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics had been lined up by underwhelming CGI results throughout post-production… a disappointment made even worse since Carpenter’s movie is thought for its unbelievable sensible results. The director informed Syfy Wire, “I do know this can be a debated subject, however wanting again, we had been caught in a cross-zone the place animatronics had been old school and the CGI wasn’t ok. We made the mistaken determination to do it in post-production [when it came to] making the monster design within the laptop. I remorse that now.“
What do you consider Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s 2011 model of The Factor? Do you assume the director is correct to remorse the choice made concerning the consequences, and do you want the oil rig sequel had been made? Tell us by leaving a remark under.
