Director James McTeigue On Shooting A Ninja Movie
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- Published: Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:23
- Written by Lupe Haas
Director James McTeigue helms his second motion picture NINJA ASSASSIN starring Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer).
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CineMovie sat down with the director and his leading Ninja to talk about the high flying action and martial arts he undertook in this story about ninja assassins. McTeigue discusses how many cameras he used in the fight scenes, the different combination of martial arts Rain trained for and the use of acrobatics to achieve the ninja moves without the use of wires and CGI.
In NINJA ASSASSIN, flying decapitated limbs and buckets of blood give the epic spartan movie 300 a run for it's money but the director claims his ninja movie has more. Watch the interview above.
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More on Director James McTeigue:
JAMES McTEIGUE (Director) has more than 20 years of experience in the film industry. He is next set to direct "The Raven," a fictionalized account of Edgar Allen Poe's final days.
As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.
McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." McTeigue came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City."