HOW WAS THE BABY KANGAROO CREATED?
The kangaroo was a funny story. We actually built a fake kangaroo, because it’s very hard to native animal for use in a sequence like that in a movie. It was all animatronic, but it was on the same frequency as our headsets, so as soon as they fired up the sound cart, the whole thing started spazzing out. So we had to CGI the top of the prosthetic kangaroo. We should have added some hair to it. I think that’s the only complaint I have: it’s a little bit weird-looking. WHY DID YOU SCORE THIS FILM YOURSELF? I was very lucky; I got to work with two great composers on my first two films, but it’s very hard to impart what you want musically to somebody else, even someone as great as Don Davis or Christopher Young. They do fantastic work, but I had a very specific idea about how I wanted this to sound musically. I’ve got a background in music, so I was the cheapest and the fastest guy I could find to do it. WILL STORM WARNING BE RELEASED THEATRICALLY IN THE U.S.? I wish it was going to get a
