Robert Zemeckis

...Techniques Crispin Glover, who voiced Grendel in Robert Zemeckis' animated Beowulf, told SCI FI Wire that audiences can explore the film's groundbreaking performance-capture animation techniques on the DVD edition of the film. In a...

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...did not, however, come to an agreement with the producers to appear in the sequels. Zemeckis used previously filmed footage of Glover from the first movie, and Jeffrey Weissman was introduced using various obfuscating methods (background,...

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...performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story. Glover is no stranger to performance-capture technology, having worked on Robert Zemeckis' animated Beowulf. In Alice, the Knave of Hearts is put on trial for stealing the...

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...two Back to the Future sequels. Robert Zemekis chose Jeffrey to take over the role of George McFly in the two sequels to Back to the Future when Crispin Glover decided not to return to reprise the role. Jeffrey was working at Universal...

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...and the foggily imbalanced 6 (Crispin Glover), is impressively humanized, with delicate shadings of personality and emotions that Robert Zemeckis and even the Pixar designers should be studying. Theirs is a grimy cuteness. When an accident...

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...arms -- or if he's got it in his legs as well, especially the "third" one. You see, the "real" Beowulf is not a particularly sexy story, and Zemeckis knows it. "Frankly, nothing about the original poem appealed to me," he's quoted as...

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...ideas of the first film further for humorous effect. Zemeckis admits he was somewhat concerned about portraying the future because of the risk of making wildly inaccurate predictions. As Bob Gale states in the DVD commentary, actor Crispin...

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...demon Grendel (Crispin Glover) and incurs the wrath of its mother (Angelina Jolie), gets a state-of-the-art update from director Robert Zemeckis as an R-rated, computer-animated 3-D feature. Online buzz: Fans hope the performance-capture...

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...one guy who can make that call.' " Problem was, in 1987, Zemeckis cast another actor wearing face prosthetics to play George McFly in "Back to the Future II" after Glover declined to reprise the role. Glover famously sued the production...

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