(which is roughly about 50% of the film) is that we only build things that are 5 meters or closer to the characters, everything else is virtual sets. So, I would say a lot, don’t have exact amounts but ... well. A lot.
GS: Can you tell us the craziest moment on set during the making of the film? TV: Hard question, can’t really tell what’s the craziest moment, so many, but it’s generally always those moments when the time on the monitor is running short, and the amount of shots on the list is not getting smaller at all, a lot of complicated action sequences ahead but we’re out of time; actors are getting nervous, crew is getting tired and slow and my brain is filling up. It’s always crazy. But we always got it through, so we can be proud of that.
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for the smaller roles, because out of a production reason we had to shoot basically all the scenes that take place in “United States” in Germany, and all the scenes that take place on the German Moon Base in Australia; finding fluent US English speaking cast from Germany turned out to be quite a problem, but not as big a problem as finding fluent German-speaking cast
GS: Who did the special effects on the movie? TV: Our company Energia Productions (now Troll VFX) from Tampere, Finland, led by VFX supervisor Samuli Torssonen, who also did CGI for all the Star Wrecks, in addition for producing those films. GS: What is your proudest moment in the film and why? TV: I guess it must be in Berlin when the film opened for 1700 spectators and received long, standing ovations. I had been nervous on how the film works, how it works for Germans and how the crew and the cast are going to like it. There, all was solved in one bang: it works in all these fields. GS: What would you want the audience to take away from this film? TV: I hope they’ll get three things: first, they’ve been entertained for two hours; they’ve had great visuals, great story, actors and a lot of fun. Second, they’ve been told about Nazis and fascism, and hopefully they’ve realized something of the world of today as well; and third, they’ve been inspired by the film.
GS: What single piece of advice would you give others trying to follow in your footsteps, espiecllay in the crowd funding aspects of the project? TV: Don’t wait for others to give you permission to do what you love, go ahead and do it, others will follow when they see your passion. GS: Can you give some insight into how you put the cast together and what roles was the hardest to fill and why? TV: Casting was done in two parts - first, we did German casting, led by awesome casting director in Germany, Uwe Bünker, who did an amazing job finding exactly the best possible actors for the roles. This was already in 2008, and the film was shot late 2010, so the German cast had to wait quite a long time before the shooting started. The Australian casting was sort of harder part, but we got it together quite well; one of the hardest parts was actually
from Australia. GS: Where will people be able to check out Iron Sky in the Uk? Can we also expect as DVD release? TV: Late May, don’t have the date yet but should be quite soon. We had to push the date back from 20.4. to late May because of some stupid material delivery issue which then crippled the schedules (and we don’t really want to be competing with Avengers at this very moment, so it’s good to wait a little :), but it’s coming, no worries! And DVD for sure, but earliest August on DVD/ BRD. GS: What’s next for you? Iron Sky 2? TV: I’m in discussions with one bigger H’wood production, but we’ll see where that goes, and I also have a major scifi TV series for international audience in planning. Both big dreams, but I like to dream big.
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