The games INSIDE and Dead Space keep getting referenced by the audience in relation to Zygote. One thing that Oats has taught me since we put work online is how quickly the audience will want to compare whatever film you have made to other things. It was very much meant to be a creature that was “made” by a mad surgeon. I wanted limbs and organs from different people stitched together making a single horrific creation. I was on a flight and wrote down “a monster made of men.” Then we worked the story backwards from that. Where did you draw inspiration from when envisioning it? The monster design for Zygote was truly terrifying and grotesque. If I love three films I made but the audience is only responding to one of them, I should probably choose that one to make into a feature. Looking at how audiences respond to the films informs which choices would be smart to move forward with. Every decision is based on myself and Oats, not on the outside world. No, we’re not trying to democratize anything. How would the selection process come about? Is this part of a larger effort to democratize the decision-making process in Hollywood? You’ve said before that these short films might form the basis for a full-length feature. They have rules that each world follows that would ruin or destabilize the other stories if mixed. Firebase is probably the most out there and disconnected but they are meant to exist on their own. Each one is about very different themes and ideas. Also instead of being paralyzed with fear over what the audience might and might not reject, why not just put the ideas out and “see” if they reject them?Īre these independent plots, or are Rakka, Firebase and Zygote all part of the same cinematic universe? I wanted a setup that would allow for creativity and being left alone to work on things, not overly discuss them and just get on with it. The trailer promises “a series of experimental films and more weird shit,” and it certainly delivers some “weird shit” in the minute of footage allotted.Having directed major blockbusters, what was your reasoning behind pivoting back to free-to-view short films?īasically no other reason than just being creative. These “experimental pieces” will be short films featuring (but not limited to) Weaver, animated skeletons, alien overlords, plenty of action, and what looks to be a machine gun taking out a bunch of Furries. And I could, at any point, pick one of the pieces that I made that felt like it resonated with the audience, and turn it into a feature film.” “I felt that if I could sell smaller pieces directly to the audience, the sale of those small experimental pieces would keep this machine alive so that it became an ecosystem that was self-sufficient. “At the end of making Chappie, I wanted to try to figure out a different method for making films and expressing myself,” Blomkamp, the director of 21st-century sci-fi epics such as District 9 and Elysium, told The Verge. The first official trailer for Blomkamp’s Volume 1 is a weird, wonderful, gory romp through a series of short films featuring aliens, animated skeletons, and Sigourney Weaver. Director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi experiment is into the world of concept films with the help of his new project, Oats Studios.
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