His name's Nic Mathieu. And he made this:
I've always thought Macross would be a no-brainer as a cinematic franchise, and have been surprised producers don't just go directly to the source material, seeing as how the version called Robotech is probably a legal-rights headache. The nostalgia value of that name may be what's worth the most, though.
This guy Mathieu has literally nothing on his imdb page credit-wise, but is being sought after to do several major sci-fi films. After watching the video above, I'm not surprised.
If he can sell toys as well as he sells TVs in that spot (and cars, etc. in some of these other ones), he should be just fine for the studio. Now perhaps we should start worrying about story, since Akiva Goldsman is producing.
Via FirstShowing.net and The Hollywood Reporter.
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Great. He can shoot SFX and action. Can he tell a story that's
longer than 30 seconds? It's always a crap shoot when studios gamble
major budgets on people with snippets of stylish footage. Maybe you
get a Ridley Scott. Or maybe you get a Tarsem... Here's hoping this guy has the goods.
speaking of franchise directors Rebel Force Radio (which has replaced The Force Cast) is doing a detailed analysis of the JJ Abrams news in their Jan 25th show http://shotglassdigital.com/rebelforceradio
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I'd dearly like to know what music they used for that commercial—I've heard it enough before to know it's stock, but I'd still love to find it.
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@RanchothFilm / TV Inquiries
filmtv@anonymouscontent.com
I found this email address for the company that was responsible for the commercial - I think it could answer your question
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They still make Zenith TV's? I thought Zenith went out of business. Commercial was pretty cool, Nic Mathieu has to start somewhere.
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@miketen Zenith is a foothold company now. It used to be a USAlunder company that foreign consumer electronics companies funneled money into in order to get around the domestic competition clauses in USAlunder trade policies. Since those policies have been changed it was bought out by LG and it still operates producing minimal runs of products so that importers can work around the remaining domestic competition clauses. For example it "invented" (aka was given) HDTV tech by LG in order to open USAlunder markets to the HD craze that had already happened in S Korea, later they "invented" a 3D TV to open that market as well. They produce only the smallest number of actual products possible to justify the existence of the company and comply with trade policies. On the other hand the QA for Zenith production lines is quite astounding (a result of the low quantity of production runs) and so the quality of their products is remarkably high as a result.
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Akiva Goldsman looks like they've done a diverse amount of stuff including Canada.Scott's Paranormal. I see some good, some fair, and I don't see anything dreadful
@LYT @Gallen_Dugall Good thing he isn't writing here then. I'd be more concerned with what gets dropped due to licensing disputes, if I thought this was going to really happen at all. They didn't run Robotech down in S FL where I grew up so my first exposure were the excellent books which I read one weekend while running a 114 fever following outpatient surgery. They'd dump ice on me and I'd be reading away - the ice would all melt and they'd take my temp and dump more ice on me - my foot where the surgery had taken place had swollen to the size of a watermelon Anyway speech center of my brain was damaged so that I now have a slight problem understanding voices but otherwise got off pretty light, didn't even lose the foot.
@LYT @Gallen_Dugall This. This is what caused me to cringe the minute you mentioned the name, LYT.
