Like boys in a candy shop!
Posted on | August 10, 2009 | No Comments
This was posted in a local newspaper I thought all the fans of the upcoming Halo movie would get a kick out of reading this!
It’s true. Boys really do love their toys. And when they involce engines, X-boxes and things that blow stuff up, so much the better.
So when a group of 20-something actors got the oportunity to combine their love of all three they were there faster than the time it took to switch on a console! Fasitua Amosa, Damein Avery and Nick Foo are stars of “Gestalt” part of the Big Boys Pants Tour and the Waikato University of Performing Arts.
Gestalt is based around the lives of three guys obsessed with the legendary game, Halo and what happens when a girl is thrown into the mix!
“We knew Peter Jackson had been in pre-production for Halo, the movie and that got us wondering whether there might be props or anything we could use” says Amosa “Nowhere in the world would you be able to rock up to a multiple Oscar winning organisation and ask to take photos with their stuff. No Way”
“But one of the great things about New Zealand is everyone knows someone and a phone call or teo later, we were walking through the doors of Weta Workshop.”
In an extraordinary act of generosity, Richard Taylor and his Weta team threw open the doors to their top secret workshop and literally left the guys to play with the costumes, armour, weapons and even the Warthog.
“I was still getting over the fact Richard had even bothered to come and say hello, then next thinh we’re standing right in front of the Warthog,” says Amosa.
“I commented to the workshop tech that it actually sits quite low to which he replied ‘oh wait till I turn it on’ which he does and boom, the Warthog’s sitting on airbags.
“Weta had agreed we could use everything for publicity shots so we got to work taking photos. A staff member says ‘Do you guys need the weapons?’ to which we’re all like ‘yes please, if its not to much trouble,thank you please.”
“When he came back with the Battle Rifle, I think we all collectively wet our pants with excitement. Then came the Spiker, Carbine . . . ‘is that the Sniper Rifle? Oh yeah im sure we could use the Rocket Launcher somewhere, thank you’. It was an awesome afternoon”
Weta’s costume supervisort Matt Appleton says everything the boys use was designed to be true to the game. “We got digital files from Bungy to replicate everything, we knew we had to be dead on otherwise the fans wouldn’t be at all happy. One little curve wrong and it’d be all over.”
“At the play-house, we’ll give our audience the chance to step inside the Halo world. Almost like we did at Weta. And if they have half as much fun as we did, then we’ll be happy.’”
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