Greg Motolla talks Paul, the CGI "alien comedic method actor" in PAUL!
SUPERBAD director Gregg Motolla, who is gearing up to premiere his new movie ADVENTURELAND at Sundance, has discussed the CGI alien creature which is at the heart of his soon to be filming PAUL, the Nick Frost/Simon Pegg alien comedy he will direct later this year.
That movie is a far more technically challenging movie than Adventureland was because one of the main characters is a fully non-existent creature. Hes basically an alien who may be, lets say, 70% CGI and the big challenge is that he needs to be a very funny, comedic method actor. Its not the kind of CGI character where we people to say Oh wow, look what they did, thats so cool its actually the kind of CGI character where we want people to just treat like another actor in the film, and he should be fully believable and multi-faceted and has to give a great performance, he just doesnt exist. Weve been doing a lot of test trying to figure out how to pull that one off.Basically he is trying to avoid this... PAUL finds Frost and Pegg as two British slackers who after visiting Comic-Con go on a road trip to Area 51 where they encounter a small alien named Paul, who enlists them to help him find his way home. source - /film