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I’ve never done a film with fully rendered CG characters, performance motion capture… So it’s a new challenge. I like the fairytale and I like the story, but I also like the opportunity to work with this technology. That’s not our story, there’s no King Arthur or anything, but it takes elements of those and merges them into an original.

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It takes the myth of Jack and the Beanstalk, which is a story from the 1800s, which is kind of a simple fairy-tale – I think it’s meant as a sort of allegory about the plight of the farmer, taking back from the fat-cats on Wall Street, the ownership in the form of the golden goose that lays golden eggs – and then merging it with the story of Jack the Giant Killer, which is a myth from the 1700s, which is a bloody series of tales about this character named Jack who killed giants and he has a seat at the Round Table. It’s a little about how stories like that get changed over the years and become the stories that we know. There’s beans, there’s a beanstalk… There’s not a cow. How similar is this to the tale we all know? Are there beans, a beanstalk and a cow and so on? As the afternoon progressed, we had the chance to sit with Singer and watch the shots unfold, and quizzed him during the long downtime between takes, asking about the concept behind this fantasy adventure, the benefits and challenges of shooting in 3D, the astonishing success of the X-Men series, and how best to kill time during a boring shoot. His eclectic body of work – from superheroes to psycho-thrillers, from heist flicks to historical dramas – makes him unique in Hollywood. A simple task for our heroes, maybe, but for a film crew shooting in 3D? That requires a whole day’s shoot.īut he’s also one of the most interesting, candid and eloquent directors working today. They’ll have all sorts of nightmarish monsters to face once they reach the top, but first, they have to get from one leaf to another. Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is on his way to rescue the princess from the giants, with elite guards Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and Craw (Eddie Marsan) in tow.

It’s a tricky one, involving three actors, a wind machine and a bow-and-arrow. Today – an early summer afternoon in 2011 – they’ll be lucky to get one shot filmed. ‘The way he used to put down a storyboard and say “here’s the scene”, I can say “here’s the scene you’re about to play.”’

‘It’s a very Hitchcockian thing,’ he explains, describing the pre-capture animations used as guides for actors acting to eye-line marks, or performing in the void. It’s his first film in 3D, his first with motion capture technology, but he’s already a vocal fan. This is a radical re-vamp of the familiar Jack and the Beanstalk tale, told with swashbuckling derring-do and an epic sweep.

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The footage, two years away from theatrical release, is rudimentary at best, full of pre-vis effects and stock animation, but Singer’s imagination and rapid-fire chatter fill in the blanks.

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In a massive studio at Elstree, halfway through the shoot for Jack The Giant Slayer (then known as Jack The Giant Killer), he’s in his element, reviewing shots from the previous weeks on a flat-screen TV in a small tent that is dwarfed by the beanstalk cross-section outside.

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