The name Seamus McGarvey may not be one that you’re incredibly familiar with, but you undoubtedly know his work. The cinematographer is responsible for the photography in such varied fare as Atonement, High Fidelity, and We Need to Talk About Kevin, and he also handled the cinematography on a little movie called The Avengers that you may have seen earlier this year.
Steve recently got to speak with McGarvey about his work in director Joe Wright’s upcoming romance drama Anna Karenina, and the cinematographer provided brief updates on a couple of highly anticipated upcoming projects. He revealed that the Godzilla reboot starts production this coming March, and he strongly suggested that he’ll be returning for Joss Whedon’s sequel The Avengers 2. Hit the jump for more.
McGarvey is set as the cinematographer on Warner Bros. and Legendary’s upcoming Godzilla reboot directed by Gareth Edwards, so Steve asked if he could reveal anything about the highly anticipated monster movie. Though he was remiss to get into plot details, he did reveal the production schedule:
“We start in March. March ‘til June, I think.”
At Comic-Con earlier this year, Legendary showed a tease of Godzilla test footage that Edwards shot that had the crowd going wild. McGarvey revealed that they haven’t nailed down the exact visual approach just yet, but he starts prep next week:
“We still haven’t chosen the direction we’re going visually. I’m sort of testing next week, in fact, for that stuff.”
With Joss Whedon confirmed to return as the writer and director of Marvel’s The Avengers 2, Steve asked McGarvey whether Whedon has asked him to return as cinematographer for the follow-up:
“I can’t really say that, but yes he has asked me.”
Assuming the schedule lines up, it certainly sounds like McGarvey will be handling the photography on The Avengers 2. Look for Steve’s full interview with the cinematographer soon.
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That’s appalling…lol.
I’m so damn excited for a new Godzilla but I’m not sure I dig this move. I’m the only person I know who thought The Avengers was garbage.
I didn’t think The Avenger was that good either. Everyone else coming out of the theater loved it but it didn’t really do much for me. I didn’t think it was any better than Transformers.
I want to be cool like both of you.
The Avengers was a film made for children and it’s this grouped that liked it the most. The villain, Loki, was an un-intimidating clown. It had some good humor, nice special effects and a brain-dead plot. No blood (despite the fact that they’re fighting a war in the most populous city in the US), no foul language, nice bright setting and every body looked pretty.
It was like an ad for toothpaste. If it wasn’t The Avengers, I would have fallen asleep…
I didn’t think The Avenger was that good either. Everyone else coming out of the theater loved it but it didn’t really do much for me. I didn’t think it was any better than Transformers. I liked all the other films in the series (except for IM2) but The Avengers was a big let down.
Keep in mind most of the general public liked the Transformers franchise a lot. Normal people go to the movies to be entertained not to pick apart movies bit by bit like the movie geeks do here in the troll comment section of collider.
What the general public likes has nothing to do with going to the theater to be entertained. I’m a “movie geek” and I seek entertainment from movies, but horrible trash like TRANSFORMERS is NOT entertaining. It’s boring, obnoxious, idiotic, etc. It’s just that the general public is full of horrible people, and they will like anything that’s familiar and bright ‘n’ shiny.
But not you, you like dark and flat. You are as cool as Drew.
For those who are harshing on Avengers, and evoking Bay-Formers as a template for derision, I’d have to argue that the amount of acreage between Whedon’s heartfelt juggling amalgamation of Marvel’s silver age and what Bay would have sputtered out would rival the Louisiana Purchase.
For those who are harshing on Avengers, and evoking Bay-Formers as a template for derision, I\’d have to argue that the amount of acreage between Whedon\’s heartfelt juggling amalgamation of Marvel\’s silver age and what Bay would have sputtered out would rival the Louisiana Purchase.
Avengers was awesome….