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I've been gone for so long! Sorry for the abandonment but here now to make it up to you is Tron Legacy! Oh man oh man is this exciting. I've been looking forward to this for well over a year and it looks to be incredible.
Here's a great video on how the costumes were designed. The costume designer is Michael Wilkinson, designer of other fantasy amazing pieces such as 300 and Watchman.
More to come later.
Costume preview released for Captain America, a new movie set to be released 2011. I don't know how a new live action superhero is going to do in this market... the guy has a blue head for crimmine sakes.
Costume Design by Jeffrey Kurland (Erin Brokovich) and Anna B. Sheppard (Inglorious Bastards). Between them they sound like a strong pair....
Even more exciting news: Rick Heinrichs is production designing!!! (If you don't know who that is, you should be ashamed.)
Some original artwork.... Glad they got rid of those SCALES and the spandex unitard look.
You know there is probably beaucoup de millions in this thing- which is A LOT of pressure for the costume designers, since so much marketing is basically going to come down to one simple fact: how he looks.
Action figures, posters, trailers, Halloween costumes, and pictures splashed over each and every single product imaginable- it all depends on if boys think he looks stupid or cool.
So far things look great... except for that hat. It's a little Luche Libre, no?
Mel Brooks' Spaceballs... a cheesy 1987 spoof that's still a great movie to watch when you're home sick from work.
Above costume sketch of Princess Vespa, our heroine, in the dress she wears through the whole movie. However, most of the time we see it seductively shredded:
A pic of the actual dress worn in filming. So. Much. Lace.
Costumes by Donfeld.... yes that's correct, he's a one named Wonder-Designer who worked mostly in the 60s and 70s. I don't know how you achieve the status of having only one name, but apparently this guy did it and fast.
Here's a great sketch of a Black Guard, a minion of Dark Helmet. (btw where has Rick Moranis gone?)
Barf and Lone Starr taking over the Black Guard's uniforms, with the Princess in that Seductively Shredded wedding dress again.
And the hero, Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, wears a button up and pant ensemble, also through mostly the whole movie. (Shown here without the classic late 80s/ Seinfeld leather jacket.)
And Barf.
So if you're one of the two people in the world who haven't seen the new pics released from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland- here you go:
Helena Bonham Carter as The Queen of Hearts
Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter
Colleen Atwood has still not officially been announced as the costume designer.... and while my earlier suspicions were that it was her... I'm just not convinced this is 'HER'. It really doesn't look like her kind of thing. But who knows. Maybe it's new and crazy and different.
It's kinda weird, right?
Bust out the cute outfits- it's summertime!
Wizard of Oz illustration from I don't know who- found it in a magazine isn't it cute?
I lurved this outfit.
I've been hearing a lot about a new movie called The Fall lately. I haven't seen it, so I can't say first hand, but the pictures are incredible. The cinematography is a wonder to behold- absolutely no special effects were use and everything was shot on location in something like 12 different countries. It was released in 2006 at the festival circuit but has had no distribution until now, and even that has been fairly limited. But I think it will be a secret sleeper by the looks of attention it's getting in blogland.
The costumes are by Eiko Ishioka, the Oscar winning designer for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and who's specialty is opera-worthy female mind-seductresses and creepily hot armor. I was in love with her work when Dracula came out and thought she was the greatest thing ever living... lately I think some of her stuff is a tad... '90s'? (Like the colored fake fur below) But she still can deliver an *pow* image like almost no one else.
The story centers around a guy in a hospital telling a story to a little girl in the same hospital. The film goes in and out of her mind while the story is being told- much of what's seen below is from the 'story' part of it.
pssst... is it just me or did those three guys in armor a few pics back come off the set of Monty Python?
I'm not in business of upsetting people or celebrity gossip so I will not be recounting any details- most of which are too hazy to be anything but false at this point- but I will say how sad about Heath Ledger's death! And with a sweet little girl....
Okay, this is a post that had actually been saved for awhile, so I'm not trying to be grotesque by plastering this quirky pic of him here. I have actually been looking forward to this movie for quite awhile- and it had everything to do with Heath in this Makeup. I think this is such a fantastic look (Make up Head: Peter Robb-King who I think will deserve a gold statue for this one.) The posters, the aesthetic- everything is perfect about this character, of course all brought to life by the brilliant Heath. It's such a far cry from the suave, clean-lined Jack Nicholson version (which was fantastically hilarious at the time.) There's something about this wicked mess of a face... everyone- EVERYONE can't keep from commenting how perfect it is. THAT'S when you know you've hit it- when it provokes such a strong reaction- and the movie isn't even out yet!
The costume designer for this movie is a Ms. Lindy Hemming, who is a 60 year old brit who has already won an Oscar for Topsy-Turvey. She has also designed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Batman Begins, Four Weddings and a Funeral, the Lara Croft movies, and a handful of the Bond films. Guess she's great at action.
Of course it will be awhile before the movie comes out- next summer supposedly, but it's already had so much buzz I'm sure it'll be fantastic. Some peeps from my generation are comparing it to The Crow (for obvious reasons that have nothing to do with Batman.)
I still can't believe it.
Ugh... If I have to travel anymore....
Tonight I caught the first installment of the SciFi Channel's the TinMan, and I'm taping the second episode, which aired tonight, so I can watch that tomorrow. I'd really been looking forward to it, the trailer seemed really exciting. Like remember when there was that whole NBC trend that got into Gulliver's Travels, and Merlin, and Alice in Wonderland in the early 00's? I kinda thought it had that whole thing going for it. Anyway...
The costumes were designed by Mr. Angus Strathie, previous award winner as the co-costume designer (with Catherine Martin) for Moulin Rouge and the other Red Curtain films. My take on the Tinman thus far is that if you zoom out, it's great.... if you zoom in- as one who likes this kind of stuff does- it kind of had it's moments that made me wince just a teeny bit. I love love love the scarecrow, the aging jacket was fantastic. I'm not so into Azkadellia's character, who is a modeling on the wicked witch. Her costumes were a bit too leathery, dominatrix, Anime type for me. I'm not really a Leather, Dominatrix, Anime type of gal anyway. But I guess it works. And I have to concede that I'm sure this didn't have the budget that Moulin Rouge did, so there you go. But props to anyone who wants to take this one. Who could ever redesign one of the most famous costume design movies of all time? Quite a challenge.
DG (or Dorothy Gale) is wearing pants and a leather jacket. Okay... I didn't know how I felt about this at first. But the more I watched it, I just really want those pants.
I dunno. They're great costumes, but this whole vibe is just not my bag. The male characters were superb and there were these beautiful dresses on the little girl characters of both DG and Azkadellia. I'm just partial to the older aged type of things. So in other words I liked 90% of it.
If you go to the website they have this cool character breakdown under "compare to the book" in the Cast section. Some nice full shots of the characters in costume.
This guy really is one of the best costumes of all time.
