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Q: ...the characterization of Artemis, who is more of a traditional hero and less the redemptive villain/anti-hero than he was in the books. Why did you choose to go this route?

A: It was a decision based on a sort of inverse take on what I saw in the books, which was Eoin introducing Artemis gathering a sense of morality across the books. He said that he had him preformed as an 11-year-old Bond villain. It seemed to me that for the audiences who were not familiar with the books, this would be a hard, a hard kind of thing to accept... in order to have sufficient people root for him, because Eoin manages to do that the books but it’s very hard if you don’t have context...we saw the character come from something more raw, in this case more familiar: going to a school, a bit like some of our audience might be familiar with. And I was less interested in presenting the story from the get-go, of a character who was marooned in a privileged life. I wanted us to find the humanity inside the character, before going on a journey which might be the opposite to the books but sort of integral in the sense of what I was looking for, which was a journey that maybe took our Artemis which he arrives at the end of the movie ready to go to the dark side. So we see him acquire those characteristics, and it seems to me that that is a way of potentially introducing a much wider audience who didn’t know the books to the characters so that the great landscape that Eoin has in the rest of the books, we can hopefully, perhaps, go through, but traveling in the different direction.

unprincess wrote:ugh sorry posted something here that doesn't belong...anyway now that Im here, I had no idea Kenneth Branagh was directing this. I read he wants to make an animated Shakespeare film. Do you guys think Disney would be interested if a big Hollywood name was attached?

DisneyBluLife wrote:When I hear "Artemis" I think of the cat in Sailor Moon. But it is strange that "Artemis" a girl name, is giving to boy characters.

JeanGreyForever wrote:

unprincess wrote:ugh sorry posted something here that doesn't belong...anyway now that Im here, I had no idea Kenneth Branagh was directing this. I read he wants to make an animated Shakespeare film. Do you guys think Disney would be interested if a big Hollywood name was attached?

Oh, I'd love to see that. Did he specify if it would be CGI or hand-drawn animation? I feel like for a Shakespeare film, CGI would seem really tonally at odds.

unprincess wrote:

JeanGreyForever wrote: Oh, I'd love to see that. Did he specify if it would be CGI or hand-drawn animation? I feel like for a Shakespeare film, CGI would seem really tonally at odds.

https://collider.com/kenneth-branagh-an ... hts-dream/

my fear though is that he'll do what so many Hollywood types do when they think of animation aimed for adults or with a more mature tone: IT MUST BE HYPER-REALISTIC CGI MOCAP B/C IT MAKES IT LOOK FOR REALZ! And he mentions "visual effects" in the quote which makes me think of CGI associated with live action movies. Yawn, no thanks...