By Fred Topel | Image property of 20th Century Fox.
Alien vs Predator: Requiem
Between the sibling directing duo Colin and Greg Strause, Colin did most of the talking. Perhaps he just didn't trust himself to keep the film's secrets. There are a lot of spoilers out there for Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem, but he's holding onto the biggest.
Greg Strause on AVP Requiem
"One of the hardest scenes is still not completely been spoiled yet and we’re trying not to spoil everything," he said. "It gets real easy with every interview you give away a little hint in each one and all of a sudden there’s nothing left to find out in the theatres, so we always try to dampen ourselves on that."
Or, perhaps he picked his words carefully, because anyone doing a story just on Greg Strause would have to use everything he said. The first topic that really got him going was the Christmas Day release date.
"Scream movies did really well during that week. People ask about that and it’s a huge movie going week. So like every day that week is like a Friday or Saturday."
The Strause Brothers run the effects house Hydraulx, so their directorial debut called on a lot of their experience. "The ship crash stuff in the beginning was some of our more intense stuff with plowing over a whole forest of trees and all the fire and all that. That stuff is pretty involved. And the trophy room was pretty involved too. Oops, I just let that out. It’s on the Internet."
The brothers don't divide up the duties, but rather handle whatever needs to be done as they are individually available. "We’re pretty interchangeable. Sometimes one take Colin will give a note and the next take I’ll go out and give a note and we’d work on stuff like that but generally we’ve got to be pretty unified and everything. Dealing with the cast and everything is really important that they kind of feel like everyone’s on the same page."
Greg Strause also had a lot to say about the specific sound effects. "The sounds from mother from the original Alien for the MOTHER for the type hitting the screen, we used that. The plasma caster from the original Predator, blue cracks, it’s all the same. In certain places the original recordings kind of showed their age and their quality so we would layer new recordings on top but a lot of the fundamental layers, a lot of sound effects sometimes can be 20, 30, 50 layers of sounds all mixed together at once, so a lot of ours the bottom foundation will be from the original. We didn’t do anything where in the final movie it would sound kind of analog or sound antique so we’d run the risk of that we’d layer new stuff in on top."
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