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 One of the film's main action set pieces is a terrific car chase featuring Fox, Quaid, and some bad guys speeding through the narrow streets of Spain. "My situation was really a total green screen," Fox admits. "A couple guys rocking the car, Pete standing in front of the car telling me what I was reacting to. It was a very frustrating process. In fact, it was the only point where I got frustrated with Pete a bit. I was like, 'This is definitely not going to work,' and he said, 'No, trust me, it’s going to work.' I’ve been traveling for three and a half weeks now, all over the globe, promoting the movie – and everyone comments on how great the car chase is.” He smiles, chagrined. "The first time I saw Pete after all this time I gave him a big hug and said, 'You were, in fact, right.'" As previously mentioned, Fox's next big-screen foray will be the anxiously awaited adaptation of the classic cartoon series Speed Racer. Judging from the trippy, kinetic trailers, we might be in for something special. "They screened the movie, and I really wanted to be there very badly, screened it for friends and family in LA yesterday," he says, getting markedly more excited. "Christina Ricci [who plays Trixie] just called me and...we've all been so excited about this project from the first day we got involved in it. It was something I was dying to do. I pursued it. I really pursued it. The experience in Berlin was just a fantastic summer. It's going to be like nothing you've ever seen before – it's a new way of making films. The way the film moves, traditional editing is pretty much gone." He stops, laughing at himself for gushing so much. "It's going to be amazing, I'm very, very excited about it." Of course, with all the CGI, that meant Fox was in for even more green screen, especially during the actual racing sequences. "There was a lot of driving on a gimbal. The cars are built around you in CGI. There was a practical Shooting Star built, it's beautiful, because there are a couple scenes in the film where Emile [Hirsch, who stars as Speed] and I have to get in and out of the car so you have to have a practical car to transition. Most of the time we're in a gimbal that's on a hydraulic system that's taking you through the actual race sequences and then cameras are moving all around that as we're in movement." In other words, it was like an amusement park ride – and proved to be a lot more fun than his Vantage Point chase. "It made it very easy because all you had to do was get in there and react to what the car is doing," Fox says. "It was ... |
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