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Captain Marvel’s VFX Supervisor Explains the De-Aging Process
JAKE ABBATEMONDAY, MARCH 18, 2019
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Captain Marvel’s VFX Supervisor Explains the De-Aging Process
Marvel Studios is no stranger to de-aging actors for flashback scenes. But since Captain Marvel is completely set in 1995, Samuel L. Jackson needed 25 years shaved off in order to realistically depict him as a younger Nick Fury. Obviously, this process is an arduous one that requires plenty of capable hands, including visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend. In an interview with The Wrap, Townsend explained the ins and outs of restoring Jackson to his mid-’90s prime.


Conventionally, scenes with de-aging require the use of a body double for an actor’s younger face to be superimposed onto. However, the task of “youthening” Jackson for an entire movie was in no way conventional for Townsend and his team.

“That process works if you’ve got five, eight, maybe 10 shots,” said Townsend. “But in a movie like this where we’ve got about 500 shots, there was no way from a production point of view we could do that. One of the big gains was Lola [Visual Effects] coming back to us and saying, ‘we don’t need the body double.’ That was huge for us because it cut down our shooting time by at least half.”

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Instead, the visual effects team relied on visual aids from ‘90s Jackson films like Jurassic Park, The Negotiator, and Die Hard with a Vengeance. In the long run, Townsend insists that his crew’s primary goal was authenticity.

“The thing I said to the gang at the beginning is from that first shot you see of Sam, you’ll go ‘Woah! Young Sam!’ But my intention was after that, nobody thinks about it,” noted Townsend. “And hopefully that’s what we’ve achieved if we’ve done our job right, and that the audience never questions it and doesn’t even consider it. The real challenge is making it so that there’s continuity from one frame to the next so that it feels smooth, and it never feels like the face is jiggling around or moving. It really comes down to the artistry of the person sitting there and trying to maintain as much of the original performance as possible.”

How do you think the de-aging effects turned out in Captain Marvel? Let us know in the comment section below!


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Kevin Feige Teases Potential Captain Marvel Sequels Set in the Past
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Kevin Feige Teases Potential Captain Marvel Sequels Set in the Past
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Captain Marvel!


Over the weekend, Captain Marvel crossed $300 million in its third week at the box office. Naturally, a sequel is inevitable even if Marvel Studios isn’t ready to confirm that. However, Marvel’s Kevin Feige is already dropping hints about when potential Captain Marvel sequels might take place.

While speaking with ScreenRant, Feige said “I think one of the things that’s fun to us about the timeline of this film and the potential of future stories with these characters is there’s a great past, not just of Mar-Vell, but of the entire Skrull/Kree conflict and also this gap of history between when Carol Danvers flew off with Talos at the end, spoiler, and when she arrives with the Avengers.”

“We wanted to give her her own corner of the universe, her own mythology,” continued Feige. “While we’re not specific about this in the movie, there’s potential to understand where has she been this whole time? Why haven’t we seen her yet? The answer is revealed and hinted at in this movie as she was dealing with a colossal, universal conflict in another section of the MCU.”

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Although Telos and his band of Skrulls ultimately had good intentions in the movie, Feige also indicated that the rest of the Skrulls may not share Telos’ outlook.

“Part of the twist…is about [fleashing] out these pointy eared, green aliens,” said Feige. “Making them real, making them fully formed and part of, for better for worse, part of being fully formed and being a three-dimensional species is there are probably good ones as we’ve seen in this film. And there are probably bad ones.”

Within the Marvel Universe comics, the Skrulls have frequently tried to infiltrate Earth and claim it as their new homeworld. The Secret Invasion crossover even featured the Skrulls executing a long term plan by replacing Earth’s heroes with sleeper agents. After Captain Marvel introduced the peaceful Skrulls to the MCU, the probability of a Secret Invasion adaptation seemed less likely. However, if Feige is willing to explore to explore the Skrulls’ more sinister side, then that story remains a possibility. Additionally, there are also Skrull villains, including the Super-Skrull, who could potentially threaten the Fantastic Four and other Marvel heroes.

Do you want to see Captain Marvel sequels set between her first film and Avengers: Endgame? Should the sequel also explore the Kree-Skrull war? Let us know in the comment section below!


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