Doug Jones Silver Surfer Rumour: OT

[dogboy443]

Found this on AICN...

Hello Moriarty,

"Man in Suit" note here.......

I have a confirmation from a colleague from Spectral Motion FX that the Silver Surfer, played by Doug Jones, is NOT going to be a computer generated or motion capture based character like Davy Jones from Pirates 2. The character is being created using a body-suit that is sprayed in a chrome-ish, silver paint scheme.It also appears that the face of the surfer is a fixed, contemplative expression in the head piece appliance with limited mouth movement that will be articulated by Jones' performance in the suit. Additionally, there have been numerous challenges related to placing him within a green screen environment.

Is it me or does it seem odd that an effect that was perfected in 1990/91 with Terminator 2's "T-1000" is being passed over in favor of using a sophisticated Power Rangers suit? Why this is not Motion capture or a 3D based character work is beyond me. Economics? Performance? After John Knoll's landmark mo-cap work on Pirates, should there be any other contemporary effect choice/tool for this 2 year window of FX production? Very odd choice, seems risky in the land of fickle fan boy culture. We'll see how it plays.

Due to NDA's and the tip, Please keep my name anonymous,

Call me: MOLE MAN

All good points of view. T2 was the template for the Silver Surfer...

Mark

[Neil Hill]

Personally I think it would be quite remiss of the Fantastic Four production crew to negate the advances that have been made with T2 like effects in film, but not including at least some of them in their depiction of Silver Surfer. That being said, we all have zero idea what they DO plan to do at this point, so I don't want to get to down on this just yet.

[Tad]

The fury and outrage over this is so typical of the internet fandom -- posters screaming at the top of their lungs based on little or no information.

Thank you again, jnapper and Alz, for creating an island of sanity.

Relative sanity.

[THE REAL kirk]

Ha...a man in a suit with a mask. Like that's going to happen. While it is a rushed production I consider this "inside information" to be of the completely bogus kind and one man's attempt to stir up some...

...you get the point.

[el seth]

The only real thing that concerns me about this is, if true, it sounds like a whole new level of Doug suffering for his art. Aside from being hung by his testicles.

[dogboy443]

I'm just sharing with the crowd with what I found...don't shoot the messenger.

Mk