Here are a couple of new photos from the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. They are from The Electric New Paper over in Singapore (I personally feel the top one is a poor photo shop jobby and apparantly the source is a tabloid over in Singapore so take all of this with a pinch of salt). They go on to mention some details of the filming including how a mound of earth was going to double for Gort. Keanu has also said, "[Klaatu Barada Nikto] was actually something that wasn't in the script. And I said, 'You've got to have that."Although most of the film was shot in Vancouver, Canada, the production spent nine days at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base and the studio took advantage of its airfield and equipment.
More than 150 people, including actors and crew members, set up camp there during filming.
Part of the base's hangar was converted into a military control room and the crew borrowed two Blackhawk helicopters while on location.
A towering mound of dirt was dumped near the airstrip that will be digitally manipulated to become an alien in the movie.
Weta Digital will be using computer animation to fill the major role of Klaatu's giant robot counterpart Gort.
Derrickson explored many possibilities for depicting the character, but realised making a faithful homage to the original was best. One script draft had depicted the robot as a four-legged 'Totem' that stands upright after firing its weapon beam.
Like Gort's design, the spaceship and Klaatu's spacesuit will also have an organic and biological or ecological base.
The original film's electronic score, which was composed by Bernard Herrmann, has been re-composed by Tyler Bates and used for the remake.
What do you think of the news and the photos?
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