You Never Knew How Much CGI These Shows and Movies Really Used

The visual effects team wrote a rendering of software based on the equations of an actual astrophysicist in order to create Interstellar's black hole. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render. "Chris really wanted us to sell the idea that the black hole is spherical," said Paul Franklin, the film's visual effects supervisor.

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Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.
Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making movies after his 10th film. The Hateful Eight was his 8th film.
Like Facebook, Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article ‘The’. Much cleaner without it.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.