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Category 7 To Trash Landmarks
The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Pyramids, Mount Rushmore and the Arc de Triomphe are some of the world's great landmarks that the CBS digital effects team takes great delight in destroying in the upcoming miniseries Category 7: The End of the World, visual effects supervisor Craig Weiss told SCI FI Wire during an exclusive tour on Oct. 14.
The super-storm drama is a sequel to last year's hit Category 6, and the only character reprising a role is Randy Quaid as a storm chaser. The four-hour sequel co-stars Gina Gershon as a new FEMA director, Shannen Doherty as a discredited scientist, Tom Skerritt as a pilot and James Brolin and Swoosie Kurtz as a televangelist couple saying that the storm is the coming apocalypse.
Only weeks before the miniseries' Nov. 6 and 13 premiere, the digital team is working on destroying some of the world's most recognizable landmarks. The first one, the Eiffel Tower, is struck by lightning and sucked into a tornado while diners are blown off the structure and a car smashes into one of the legs of the tower.
"There are more than 100 special-effect shots in that one sequence," Weiss said. The Eiffel Tower is the first landmark to be destroyed in a sequence that lasts 10 minutes, and more than one-fourth of the miniseries' nearly 400 special-effects shots will go into that one sequence alone.
In another nearly completed sequence, the Arc de Triomphe is struck by lightning in the heart of Paris and comes crumbling down. Can a lightning strike bring down solid stone like that? Christopher DeCristo, the show's 2-D supervisor admitted: "We don't really know."
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/i...ory=0&id=32850
Category 7 To Trash Landmarks
The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Pyramids, Mount Rushmore and the Arc de Triomphe are some of the world's great landmarks that the CBS digital effects team takes great delight in destroying in the upcoming miniseries Category 7: The End of the World, visual effects supervisor Craig Weiss told SCI FI Wire during an exclusive tour on Oct. 14.
The super-storm drama is a sequel to last year's hit Category 6, and the only character reprising a role is Randy Quaid as a storm chaser. The four-hour sequel co-stars Gina Gershon as a new FEMA director, Shannen Doherty as a discredited scientist, Tom Skerritt as a pilot and James Brolin and Swoosie Kurtz as a televangelist couple saying that the storm is the coming apocalypse.
Only weeks before the miniseries' Nov. 6 and 13 premiere, the digital team is working on destroying some of the world's most recognizable landmarks. The first one, the Eiffel Tower, is struck by lightning and sucked into a tornado while diners are blown off the structure and a car smashes into one of the legs of the tower.
"There are more than 100 special-effect shots in that one sequence," Weiss said. The Eiffel Tower is the first landmark to be destroyed in a sequence that lasts 10 minutes, and more than one-fourth of the miniseries' nearly 400 special-effects shots will go into that one sequence alone.
In another nearly completed sequence, the Arc de Triomphe is struck by lightning in the heart of Paris and comes crumbling down. Can a lightning strike bring down solid stone like that? Christopher DeCristo, the show's 2-D supervisor admitted: "We don't really know."
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