“When it came time to figure out what power Joseph should fight and who was going to do it, we thought of Xavier because he naturally has this extraordinary ability to dislocate several joints in his arms.” “That guy’s name is Xavier and he’s a dancer from New York City that we made a dance film with a few years ago,” says Schulman. The crazy thing about this scene is that much of it was done for real. In one memorable action sequence Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s cop, Frank fights with a guy whose limbs seem to defy nature, bending in ways the human body usually doesn’t. “This is a tiny, little animal, but we were like, ‘What would it look like if you created that on a macroscale of a person?’” The python “It’s an effect that occurs in the animal kingdom with this animal called the pistol shrimp, which basically moves so fast that it creates a bubble of air that becomes plasma,” he explains. We also won’t spoil exactly what happens, to whom and why, but it’s an explosive finale inspired not just by grapes but also an unusual creature. “Well, it’s a bit of a spoiler, but the inspiration for the final power of the film, I won’t even say whose it is, is the chemical reaction that occurs when you put two grapes in a microwave…” says Schulman. “We really dove into, how does that animal produce that effect, and that’s what we were trying to replicate with the visual effects.” But there are animals that have such sophisticated camouflage that they appear to be invisible, like the cuttle fish and different cephalopods and lizards,” Joost explains. “If you take, for example, the invisible guy who’s actually camouflage guy, we all know that in real life invisibility is not really a thing. (L-R) Henry Joost, Jamie Foxx and Ariel Schulman on set of Project Power The invisible manĮarly on in the movie we see a man carry out a bank robbery who appears almost invisible – he’s blending in with his backgrounds perfectly as he moves through the streets – chameleon-like, you might say, though the inspiration for his power was actually a fish. Joost and Schulman break down some of our favorite Power moments, characters and creature-based set pieces from the film. It’s a smart starting point for a film that really leans into the idea, allowing for some amazingly fun set pieces. If it’s in the animal kingdom, it could potentially be in a human strain, and maybe the pill just reawakens those abilities.” Then we asked ourselves, where could you actually get a superpower? Well, maybe it’s lying dormant in your DNA. If there are side effects, then that had us thinking of them as science-based superpowers. “In the world of Project Power, superpowers come with super side effects. “It all started from a desire to take superpowers and ask ourselves what would actually happen to your body if you had that ability? What would be the side effects?” Schulman explains. There are examples explained in the movie which sound incredibly cool – a man who runs as fast as a big cat, another who shoots sharp bones from under his skin like the real life so called ‘Wolverine Frog’. Why not just let ourselves be inspired by that?” The more we researched these animal powers, we were like, “Oh my God, these things all exist in nature already. We wanted it to be something that was at least kind of relatively grounded in reality. We really didn’t want it to be magic or an alien, something from outer space. “It was really just a product of us wanting to understand how power works and what it did to the human body and where these powers came from. “That was something that we developed with the writer Mattson Tomlin and with our VFX supervisor Ivan Moran,” says Joost.
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