Duncan Jones May Team Up With WETA For His Final Sci-Fi Film

Moon & Source Code director has already travelled to New Zealand to meet the effects company supreme.

By Adam Lock /

With Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes already hitting $100 million worldwide and it's only just opening in the U.K. today and the film itself demonstrating WETA€™s crazy advances in mo-cap technology, it€™s safe to say that the Kiwi effects company are at the top of their game. So much so that sci-fi legend in the making, up and coming director Duncan Jones has made it known he wants to work with them for his third feature. The British director, whose credits to date include indie epic Moon and this year€™s rather impressive Source Code,has a Blade Runner inspired sci-fi in mind for his third film and possible first collaboration with WETA. He€™s already been down South to discuss the project with the power house themselves, and has seen behind the curtain, witnessing the masters at work. In an interview for DIY, Jones had this to say about the visual effects company;
My producer and I travelled to New Zealand to visit the guys at WETA. We had an amazing experience. They€™re the best in the world, and when you get the chance to meet them, and see how they do it, it€™s not just a company €“ they have a community of people who love film, and are amazing at it. I feel I would be privileged to get the chance to work with WETA so hopefully that will happen.
The project itself is under wraps, although Jones has previously spoke of a film tentatively titled Mute which involved a mute bartender searching for his girlfriend in a futuristic Berlin. This would fit with the following statement Jones gave when describing his third film too; €˜I want it to be my homage to Blade Runner, even if it€™s a bit bigger, it will be a city based future film€™. Yet nothing is set in stone at present. For all you Duncan Jones fans out there (me included) this is great news, a juicy studio flick with him in full control, however more concerning, in the same interview the director mentioned moving away from the science fiction for a while after his third, untitled feature. Where that will take him only he seems to know, though I trust he€™ll make something as enchanting just through a different genre.