It seems that the announcement by Warner Bros. back in May that Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” would be arriving in both vanilla 3D and supersized IMAX 3D was a bit premature. Speaking with MTV, the director revealed that he’s not sold on the conversion process and won’t use it until the results meet his standards.
“We’ve looked at a bunch of conversions, so whether or not we have the time to do it right — I’m not going to do it if we don’t have the time to really be meticulous with it,” he said. “It’s such an awesome piece of work and everyone’s worked so hard to make it awesome, so I don’t want to screw it up with bad 3-D.”
Huh, who knew the voice of reason from within Hollywood would come from Zack Snyder? At any rate, we’re glad that there is at least one director who isn’t just handing over his film to be raced through a generic process into 3D. Backing him is his wife and producer Deborah Snyder who feels that her husband’s film is already so visually accomplished that the addition of 3D would have a negligible effect. “There are all these movies that want to be converted and we just haven’t felt like we’ve seen that proof yet. Visually, Zack’s done an amazing job. It’s such a spectacle in and of itself and it’s so fantastical that it doesn’t really need the 3-D,” she said.
Led by the quintet of Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish, the film also features the likes of Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn and Oscar Isaac and centers on a girl who enters an alternate reality with her friends and begins planning an escape from a mental institution where she was put by her evil stepfather who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. And if that wasn’t enough, the film will apparently also have some song and dance numbers.
Fans will get their first taste of what Snyder has in store in a couple of weeks when he unveils footage at ComicCon. As to what you might see, expect a kind of highlight reel that will set the mood but not quite completely reveal the film as a whole. “We’re coming to Comic-Con to show the first footage from the movie. We’ve designed this awesome footage that kind of sets the tone. It doesn’t really tell the story per se, but it definitely lets you know what we’re up to up there. It’s pretty cool,” said Snyder.
The film will hit theaters next spring, which seems to be the modus operandi for all of Synder’s work to date, landing on March 25, 2011.