Posted:
13:36:58 on March 25 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: People
Jonathan Frakes continues his impressive promotion campaign for the new Paramount flick CLOCKSTOPPERS with more new comments today at Sci-Fi Wire.
Frakes says his extensive experience with filming visual effects shots involving green screens for STAR TREK helped him direct his young CLOCKSTOPPERS actors.
"Well, it's all storytelling, and I think that what happened with Clockstoppers is, we had a couple of kids who hadn't spent a lot of time doing visual effects, and it was helpful to them to have an actor as a director who had spent so many hours with the motion-control camera and the green screen, and ... I think I was able to try to explain to them ultimately what the shots would look like, even though the elements that they were shooting seemed so ridiculous," he explains.
He also says he was glad to finally stretch his legs with the new film, his first non-STAR TREK feature.
"I think that I've been pigeonholed ... by virtue of having the Star Trek films and having spent so much time in front of a green screen. It took me a long time to get off the Enterprise, but I finally did."
Finally, he hopes a reference to his TNG character 'Riker' will generate a laugh and not a shudder in the film opening Friday, when one character tells another, "Make it so, Number One."
"That was not my fault," Frakes said. "You have Dave Stem and Dave Weiss to blame for that, the Rugrats writers who came on board to doctor up Rob Hedden's original script. That was not my suggestion. I was a little embarrassed by it. But people insisted that it would get a smile, and I hope it does."
For more of the interview, check out this page.
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