Director Joe Wright encourages people to go see Pan in 3D because the extra dimension serves as “a secret club for kids”.
The 43-year-old filmmaker directed actors Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund and Amanda Seyfried in the forthcoming movie adaptation of classic children’s story Peter Pan.
Shooting the project in 3D wasn’t done just to make Pan look cool, there was actually a lot of thought behind capturing scenes via this visual approach.
“[I’m] certainly encouraging people to see it in 3D, especially kids,” Joe told Collider. “One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the other, 3D becomes more difficult for adults to watch than it is for children who have very balanced eyes often. So it’s kind of like a secret club for kids, and I kind of really like that idea.
“We post-converted it, but I was thinking about 3D all the way along. It’s the same guy, Chris Parks, who did the 3D conversion on Gravity, which was for me about the most successful 3D I’d seen. And so I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.”
Pan was made with an estimated budget of $150 million.
And Joe confesses it’s very difficult to helm such a huge production.
“I think managing a project like this is like being the CEO of a giant pop-up corporation, there’s so much politics and management involved,” he explained. “And so the real kind of challenge was staying focused on the story and the simple kind of, ‘This is about a boy who goes in search of his mom and on that adventure discovers his identity, and himself.’ And just remaining focused on that, not being kind of too distracted by all the bells and whistles.”
Rooney Mara is cast as Tiger Lily in Pan, a Native American princess.
Her casting was panned by critics as a poor choice, with folks criticising executives for whitewashing the character.
Rooney recently spoke out about the controversy, noting she was deeply disturbed by the outrage.
"It wasn't great, I felt really bad about it," she told People magazine, noting director Joe inspired her to take on the part despite reservations. “It was something that I thought about before I met with Joe. When I met with Joe and heard what his plans for it were, it was something I really wanted to be a part of. But I totally sympathise with why people were upset and feel really bad about it.”
