Weta Digital have been hired to bring the popular comic book character The Silver Surfer to life for
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Actor
Doug Jones who brought Abe Sapian to life in
Hellboy will be given the job of motion capturing the movements of the character similar to
Andy Serkis' work on Gollum for
Lord of the Rings. It is not yet known who is voicing the character but it could well be Doug Jones himself as he is a well respected voice actor. This is great news for this movie, Weta have constantly done a marvelous job with bringing a director's vision to life on screen. Lord of the Rings wouldn't be Lord of the Rings without the awesome work that Weta achieved. This has to be exicting news for the movie and although I didn't like the first movie, I can't help but get exicted about seeing the Silver Surfer in the sequel, especially if it's been brought to life by Weta! source -
the hollywood reporter,
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