SUBMITTED BY Scooby

June 10, 2002 — 'Jey' points us to this set report:

Being my first time on set, I never realized that they actually built all the sets from scratch. I always thought they would find an interior (ie: a house) and use it. The sets we visited were quite elaborate. They went all out with the sets. This one in particular, an underground lair-ish type of set, totally blew me away. The set designer is someone that Paul Hunter has worked a lot with in the past, in his video and commercial projects. Of course I cannot say what the role of the set was (in relation to the plot of the movie), but it's going to look WICKED on screen. I believe the shoot in this particular set was the final one to be shot in Toronto (they finished filming this past week; heading back to the U.S. for postproduction and editing). From what I picked up, the movie will NOT be completed in time for a Christmas 2002 release (post production is scheduled til early 2003), so a Spring 2003 release is probably more realistic (opening around the same time as other comic-turned-movies X-men 2; The Hulk; & Daredevil). Now, I have read several sources on the internet describing the movie as a "Matrix" type of movie. Although the movie has some supernatural elements in it, it is NOT anything like The Matrix. No slow-mo bullet type of effects, no robots, nothing like that. If anything, the action sequences might rival that of The Matrix. A martial arts choreographer (who has worked on The Matrix) trained the actors intensively since late 2001. The actors do some of their own stunts. If anything, the movie might be more supernatural elements, like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but with a modern day "edge" to it.