SUBMITTED BY pimpjoe_esb

October 20, 2005 —

Jon Favreau, director of the upcoming SF family film Zathura, told SCI FI Wire that he purposely wanted to rely on old-school special effects, a la the original Star Wars movies, rather than on computer-generated effects.

"The biggest thing that we did as opposed to how it would normally be done is to shoot the spaceship scenes like they would have done with the old Star Wars, not the new ones," Favreau said in an interview. "Rather than pouring money into CG, we built miniature models and did stop-motion control and shot it on miniature sets and cobbled it together. That's the way they used to do it. It's fun, and you have something to hang up in your house."

Click the link below for the rest of the interview.