Just delayed to February to finish up some FX work, Carl Rinsch's feature film directorial debut 47 Ronin (Feb. 8, 2013), starring Keanu Reeves, showed off a sizzle reel that combined footage, animatics and concept art. Since we visited the set nearly a year ago, we already knew of the look and scale of the film so it's nice to see that it's really been coming together. It mainly showed a scene of Keanu's character sword-fighting in a make-shift ring on a ship and a scene afterwards where Hiroyuki Sanada's character asks him how he learned to fight like that, and Keanu's Kai responds "by fighting demons" and then we saw a few of the amazing creatures he fights in the movie, including an ogre-like Oni and the monks known as the Kangu Warlords, who we see in a lightning-fast action scene. Honestly, we know quite a bit more about the movie but since we're under embargo from our set visit, we better leave it at that.
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According to another report, the need for more special effects work is really evident.
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According to another report, the need for more special effects work is really evident.