13/12/2017
Before and after shots on set of movie Immortals.
The Mo-Sys Genie‘s debut on a Hollywood film was on the set of director Tarsem Singh’s $75 million Hollywood feature Immortals (2011). Genie operator Allan O. Lückow shares the story of how Genie (formerly “Chameleon”) became a vital production tool for the film.
Lückow recalls that the system was initially tested by director Tarsem Singh several weeks before Immortals went into full production at La Cité du Cinéma Studio in Montreal, Quebec.On set, Lückow set up Genie using a camera with an Oconnor 120EXe sensing head. He also set up a laser on a dolly and equipped a techno crane with an encoding kit. Though doubtful of this new tool at first, in case it might slow down the production process, the Immortals production team were all interested to see how the new system worked. As soonas the crew saw Genie in use, Lückow noted, their skepticism dissolved. With
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