PROMO Pics for X1,X2 & X3

[jaymes_e06]

^^^Yes exactly.

 

[Retroman]

Awesome! Thanks Retro!

Just when you think you've seen it all... Nice find.

Don't mention it.

I was doing some cleaning and found some of my old movie stuff. Along them was a promotional 20th Century Fox catalog for 1994-95. X-Men was mentioned on the back cover. Here's the scan:

Thanks for sharing.

thanks Retro! They look new, even for me. t:

Your welcome!

So the entire escape, helicopter trip and arrival at the mansion would have been an illusion? I'm curious about exactly how this slotted into the story. I presume Charles would then still believe he was using his own Cerebro at the mansion, as still happened in the movie.

I guess it would have started sometime after Stryker leaves the room.The reason i think it was cut is because it was a little too disgusting and long (Jason gets up and fluid starts spraying out)

It's a shame it was left out because i think would have fitted in perfectly in the movie and given Cyclops a little more screen.

 

[Neto Magnus]

So the entire escape, helicopter trip and arrival at the mansion would have been an illusion? I'm curious about exactly how this slotted into the story. I presume Charles would then still believe he was using his own Cerebro at the mansion, as still happened in the movie.

those deleted scenes come right before the illusion where Xavier is in the hallway and sees the crying girl. The whole point of it was to convince Xavier that he really escaped and had to use his Cerebro to find the rest of the students. Before that, Jason cast an illusion where Xavier was standing. Since Xavier knows he can't stand, he knew it was an illusion so that's why the next time Jason tried to make it look like Xavier out minded Jason and escaped.

Now I'm not sure where I heard this or maybe it was in teh commentary but the reason the escape scene was cut was because it would confuse people to think it was actually happening.

 

[X-Maniac]

those deleted scenes come right before the illusion where Xavier is in the hallway and sees the crying girl. The whole point of it was to convince Xavier that he really escaped and had to use his Cerebro to find the rest of the students. Before that, Jason cast an illusion where Xavier was standing. Since Xavier knows he can't stand, he knew it was an illusion so that's why the next time Jason tried to make it look like Xavier out minded Jason and escaped.

Now I'm not sure where I heard this or maybe it was in teh commentary but the reason the escape scene was cut was because it would confuse people to think it was actually happening.

Quite honestly, the cut scene isn't necessary to the flow of the movie. Xavier wouldn't need to find all the mutants across the entire world if he was thinking he was back in the mansion using his own Cerebro, so that doesn't make sense. He'd only want to find the missing people from the mansion. So, I can see why it was cut.

I'd rather have seen Beast sprouting fur, Gambit's cards glowing and Marrow extruding bone spikes during the Dark Cerebro sequence when it's targeting mutants and their powers are going crazy. I'd also rather have seen Toad fight Nightcrawler.

 

[Retroman]

those deleted scenes come right before the illusion where Xavier is in the hallway and sees the crying girl. The whole point of it was to convince Xavier that he really escaped and had to use his Cerebro to find the rest of the students. Before that, Jason cast an illusion where Xavier was standing. Since Xavier knows he can't stand, he knew it was an illusion so that's why the next time Jason tried to make it look like Xavier out minded Jason and escaped.

Now I'm not sure where I heard this or maybe it was in teh commentary but the reason the escape scene was cut was because it would confuse people to think it was actually happening.

Yeah i think you're right it was something like that (been a while since i've watched the dvd).

Quite honestly, the cut scene isn't necessary to the flow of the movie. Xavier wouldn't need to find all the mutants across the entire world if he was thinking he was back in the mansion using his own Cerebro, so that doesn't make sense. He'd only want to find the missing people from the mansion. So, I can see why it was cut.

I'd rather have seen Beast sprouting fur, Gambit's cards glowing and Marrow extruding bone spikes during the Dark Cerebro sequence when it's targeting mutants and their powers are going crazy. I'd also rather have seen Toad fight Nightcrawler.

Speaking of that...in the years past Guy Dyas has never revealed designs for those things on his site. I would love to see what Beast and Gambit were going to look like and that 'breathtaking' Toad vs Nightcrawler fight.
http://countingdown.com/features?feature_id=3037579

 

[Retroman]

Remember this promo shot?


It's pretty obvious that Angel was photoshopped between the the rest of the X-Men.The agency of still photographer Kerry Hayes' site has the original version of that promo shot. It very well may have been posted before but it seems new to me.

Source:http://www.lakinreps.com/photographers/special/hayes/flash/index.html

 

[Retroman]

Article on Michael Muller who photgraphed some of the promo material for X3 and how he works.

From PopPhoto.com:

Michael Muller, Photographic Superhero

In Hollywood, nobody photographs superheroes like Michael Muller does. An inside look at the secrets of his craft.

By Russell Hart
February 20, 2008
Shooting movie posters was something Michael Muller always wanted to do. Yet even his impeccable photographic credentials -- ad campaigns for Speedo and Mercedes, magazine covers of Spider-Man Tobey Maguire for Premiere and Adrien Brody for Flaunt -- hadn't won him the chance to shoot those dazzling film promos we see on billboards and bus stops. It was a self-assigned, movie-themed art project that finally brought movie-poster opportunity knocking.

Muller's project, called Superfamous, was a series of portraits of the superhero-costumed souls who parade around Hollywood's famous Chinese Theatre, where for five bucks they pose for tourists' cameras. "Most of the money goes to feed a drug habit," says Muller, "and one of the key pictures is of Batman smoking crack in the alley." The marketing head of Fox Studios saw a 4x6-foot print of that image at the home of Joaquin Phoenix, who Muller befriended when he was doing publicity photography for Walk the Line, in which the actor played Johnny Cash.

The Fox exec happened to be working on the runup to X-Men: The Last Stand, the third, Brett Ratner-directed installment in the Marvel comic-based series, and was so impressed with Muller's image that Phoenix immediately phoned the photographer to come meet him. Muller was hired on the spot to do the posters for the movie. "You never know what's going to open the door for you," he says.

Muller pored over pictures by the full-time set photographer "to get a feel for how the movie looked." (He also likes to see a film's script to better understand its characters, though that sometimes requires reading it in a high-security vault.) Then he put together what amounted to a roving studio, outfitted with battery-powered, 1,200-watt-second Profoto 7B strobes and mobile C-stands, that could be moved to any part of the set where filming wasn't in progress. "I'd walk around and find little nooks and crannies to shoot in, then pull aside Hugh Jackman or another cast member who was available," he says.

Digital capture -- 17 megapixels' worth, shot with the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II -- helped close the deal with Jackman. Muller just fired up his laptop and showed the actor, who plays the film's Wolverine character, what he had already produced. "When you can show the director and the cast on the spot that the pictures you've been doing are good, they're much more open to working with you," says Muller, who has since posterized superheros for Spider-Man: The Last Stand, the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Robert Downey Jr.'s new Iron Man. "It becomes a very organic, collaborative experience." This doesn't change the time constraints, however. "I've got to be able to light and shoot someone in less than five minutes," he says. "Time is money, maybe a million dollars a day on a big movie, and the poster photographer is low-priority."

To add to that challenge, Muller likes to get as much of the image right in-camera as he can. "Whenever I've shot someone on location, I challenge myself to find settings within a couple of blocks, and do the whole shoot within a very short radius," he says. "And that way of working translates into what I've been doing for the movie posters. I go and find little pieces of the set, or walls, or something they blew up the week before, and use that as a background element."

Muller's improvised yet controlled approach is a radical departure from the movie poster custom of shooting the subject on a seamless sweep and letting the studio "comp" the rest. In fact, he says that the studio just "slapped a bar code" on two of three images that were used in posters for the movie Hitman. Of course Muller has to arrange the pose and compose the image so that empty spaces are available for type and other graphic design elements, but he says this allowance is now "wired into my shooting."



Post-Production

Unlike most other Hollywood photographers, Muller also does his own post-production work on individual images, whether for movie posters or ad campaigns. And most of that happens with the RAW file. "Ninety percent of the look I get comes from how I process the file," he says. "I'm really the only one who can decide, at least from an artistic perspective, if the image would look better in black and white or could use a greenish feel." He does pull the processed image into Photoshop, but that's the easy part. "Once I get a file processed I probably spend about five minutes on it, adjusting curves and burning and dodging with a Wacom pen," he says. "You don't have to put your hands in butterfly mode like in the darkroom and burn in little spots one at a time."

Muller says he wouldn't like it, though, if he had to shoot movie posters day in and day out. "I'd get a little crazy," he says. "I love the challenge of new stuff." That said, his movie poster experience has affected the way he thinks about his other work -- especially sports subjects such as surfing, another of his specialties. "Surfing's been shot the same way for 20-plus years," says Muller, who has also been photographing snowboarding since its baby bonks in the early 1990s. "I'm going to bring my cinematic approach to my surfing photography." To that end he's having underwater housings built for his Profoto strobes, and plans to do multi-light setups both on and under the water. He even wants to use the same technique for his ongoing photography of (gulp) great white sharks. If we were him, we'd stick with superheroes.

Lesson 1 Improvise

When Michael Muller did the poster photography for Hitman, the recent Fox movie starring Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant, the improvisational skills he cultivated on the set of the latest X-Men film were put to the test. The concept for the main Hitman poster called for Olyphant to pose in front of a bullet-riddled wall with light pouring through the holes.

The Hitman crew was shooting on location in Bulgaria. "Right before I left I was arranging to have my set designers build a wall and fly over there to set it up," Muller recalls. "The studio ended up nixing that plan because of its cost. So when I got to the set I found and photographed a room they'd blown up, shot some bullet holes, then did Timothy standing in the right pose. And when I got home we created a comp of it all. We saved the studio 25 thousand dollars and ended up getting the exact shot we wanted." Muller also saved his client the trouble of compositing the final image.

Lesson 2 Digitize

"I shoot all my movie posters digitally," says Muller. "I love the aesthetics of film, but the time constraints require instant results." He uses the 17-megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II for much of this work, including the Spider-Man 3 and Iron Man posters, and says the camera's image quality is good enough for the biggest tasks, literally. "If you upsize the right way, you can make an image that will hold up on the side of an eight-story building."

Depending on circumstances, and when he has more time, Muller also uses a 39-megapixel Phase One P45 digital back. That rig yields 120MB images that are especially suitable for "plates," the generic backgrounds or background elements (sky, landscape, buildings, weather) that are comped together with so-called hero shots of the actors themselves.

Unlike other poster photographers, Muller shoots -- and likes to shoot -- these kinds of pictures. He did so for one of Sony's big summer movies, Hancock, which stars Will Smith and Charlize Theron. "The movie takes place in L.A.," Muller explains. "So we rented a helicopter and flew over downtown, and I hung from a harness so I could shoot rooftops."

Source Link:http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/5130/michael-muller-photographic-superhero.html
http://www.popphoto.com/photography...ographic-superhero-post-production-page2.html


There's also a video on youtube where he talks about the X3 promos (where he got his big break).

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[conan69]

"It's pretty obvious that Angel was photoshopped between the the rest of the X-Men"

IT was pretty obvious as we'd seen that shot of Angel by himself earlier.

 

[Angamb]

apart that Angel's face looks horrible there, totally photosopped.

 

[storm-x-fan]

Remember this promo shot?


It's pretty obvious that Angel was photoshopped between the the rest of the X-Men.The agency of still photographer Kerry Hayes' site has the original version of that promo shot. It very well may have been posted before but it seems new to me.

Source:http://www.lakinreps.com/photographers/special/hayes/flash/index.html

I have seen it before but i love it!!

 

[Beanjuice]

more colossus :P

 

[Angamb]

I think the group pose could be a bit better, hehe.

 

[flavio_lebeau]

If there's one thing you can say X3 succeeded, it was on the posters. They looked awesome, especially Phoenix, Storm, Angel and Rogue. They had a very different, artsy feel. If the movie translated those posters, it would be way better.

 

[Angamb]

I think the same. The movie was anything but artistic.

I think with Angel they could have had some artistic shots, or full scenes.

 

[the a1ant]

Has this already been posted? I've never seen it before Credit: X-Kid

Totally bada$$

 

[Deep Thinkin'!]

oh my god, i've never seen that! That is new!

 

[BMM]

I've never seen it either. It's pretty interesting though.

 

[Neto Magnus]

Has this already been posted? I've never seen it before Credit: X-Kid

Totally bada$$

ah dammit. Why couldn't this be the real poster??? I've never been a fan of the x-men walking posters for all 3 movies.

 

[Psionic Force]

Has this already been posted? I've never seen it before Credit: X-Kid

Totally bada$$

That is kick ass! Why did it take so long to be found? Thanks for posting!

 

[Barney]

Has this already been posted? I've never seen it before Credit: X-Kid

Totally bada$$

great poster but it would have been pulled to bits by the online community... none of the heads/eyes line up. it takes the whole believeability away from it.
but still, GREAT POSTER

 

[Angamb]

I think is official. Some shots are new, if not all.

I really like it.

But Jean should be in Juggernaut place, or in the Magneto one.

 

[Neto Magnus]

it reminds me of the time I made a crappy banner...

which I got the idea from X-Men#100:

Glad to see a movie poster that actually pays homage to a cover.

 

[Angamb]

I still can't believe how they can have Jean in the fourth place.

It says so much about Fox and how they treated the character.

 

[the a1ant]

it reminds me of the time I made a crappy banner...

I miss that site.

great poster but it would have been pulled to bits by the online community... none of the heads/eyes line up. it takes the whole believeability away from it.
but still, GREAT POSTER

Did you make this? What's the wink for? If this is fan-made, it's darn near perfect.

Edit: IDK how it was made, but I'm almost convinced you did this now. Fess up, if so

 

[Barney]

haha no i never. im quite touched that you would think i did but i didnt. i do think its official tho. as angamb said, most of the shots look new.