The story is simple to grasps and graphics is totally awesome, this is how I describe Warner Bros Pictures latest animated 3D movie entitled Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole that will be shown in all cinemas beginning September 24. The film is available in both 3D and regular format and directed by Zack Snyder. It is based from the best selling children’s novel Kathryn Lasky entitled Guardians of Ga’Hoole.
The movie follows the journey of Soren (Jim Sturgess) in search for the “guardians” after escaping from the claws of the “pure ones” who plans to rule over the winged creatures especially the owls. With his friends whom he met in his journey will battle the leader of the pure ones, Nyra (Helen Mirren) and her husband MetalBeak.
What beautiful in the movie is that it doesn’t complicates the story or no changes at all from where it was based, the idea and heart of the story was perfectly sealed. In this way children who enjoys reading the novel of Lansky gets the full visual at run of the story the way they had read it. Complication meaning the movie adaptation doesn’t add more long scenes to make the flow of the story to be beefy instead its fast and simple.
It’s worth watching on 3D simply because of the details of each characters and the visuals is perfectly executed except for one thing, barn owls like Soren has full black eyes unlike what is shown in the film that it has brown/black iris on the green/blue cornea. I think the reason why the creators of the film wanted to do that is they wanted to add emotions through the eyes of each character rather than the black dull eyes which it may not appeal to the younger viewers. Finally, the execution of the scenes and the sounds adds to the emotions that the story is showing and it really gives excitement to those who watch it. So I suggest to those who is reading this blog to check out the film during its run especially on 3D iMAX.
The film features the voices of Jim Sturgess (Soren), Geoffrey Rush (Ezylryb), Emily Barclay (Gylfie), Jay Laga'aia (Twilight), Helen Mirren (Nyra), David Wenham (Digger), Ryan Kwanten (Kludd) and Emilie de Ravin (Eglantine) and it will be shown in all cinemas nationwide, both on 3D and regular format beginning September 24. The 3D animated film is distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.
Warner Bros Pictures brings another best-selling children book in the big screen and it will be directed by Zack Snyder the same director of 300 and Watchmen. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is based from the novel created by Kathryn Lasky entitled Guardians of Ga’Hoole. The film will be shown in both 3D and regular format in all cinemas nationwide beginning September 24.
The 3-D animation movie features the voice of Jim Sturgess (Soren), Geoffrey Rush (Ezylryb), Emily Barclay (Gylfie), Jay Laga'aia (Twilight), Helen Mirren (Nyra), David Wenham (Digger), Ryan Kwanten (Kludd) and Emilie de Ravin (Eglantine) where it follows the journey of Soren in search for the Guardians who will save them from the dark plan of pure ones headed by Nyra.
Here is the interview of the New York Times best-selling author, Kathryn Lasky about her Ga’Hoole series of books and the movie:
Question: How long did it take to write the first Guardians of Ga'Hoole book?
Kathryn Lasky: The first book took the longest because I was trying to really set the main characters and the whole future course of the series. So that was about four months of writing and editing.
Q: Where did you get the inspiration for the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series?
Lasky: Well, my first idea was to do a non-fiction book about owls. My husband Christopher Knight, a former national Geographic photographer, and I had done several non-fiction books together illustrated with his photos. But Chris said that it would be awfully hard doing a non-fiction book what with owls shy, rare to the point of endangered and that the best pictures would be at night. So lighting would be difficult. It was his idea that I try a fantasy book. In the beginning I thought I would just do one book. But when I sent the proposal into Scholastic, Jean Feiwel, the editor in chief, called me up and said "This is not just one book. It's six". I was kind of shocked. I thought how on earth do I stretch this out to six? But now I am just starting book 13. So I guess I sort of figured it out.
Q: Did you hope, on some level, that your use of owls would enlighten readers to respect nature more?
Lasky: Maybe on some level. But I rarely write with a moral objective in mind. To me the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
Q: How did you research the books? Did you consult with owl experts?
Lasky: I early on discovered the Owl Pages and it was enormously helpful. But I did a lot of research in libraries. I talked to some people at the Audubon Society. I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts and there are wonderful libraries there. So I used the Harvard libraries as well as the public ones.
Q: What is your favorite Guardians of Ga'Hoole book?
Lasky: That's like asking what your favorite child is. But I have to a admit that I enjoyed especially writing the legends trilogy, books 9, 10 and 11 - The First Collier, The Coming of Hoole and To Be a King where I delved back into the ancient history of the owl kingdoms.
Q: If you were an owl, what kind would you be? Or what owls are you most like?
Lasky: I don't know which of the owl characters I am most like but I have a special fondness for Barn owls and Spotted owls.
Q: Which Guardians of Ga'Hoole character are you most like?
Lasky: As is said I don't know which one I am most like. I think they all have elements of my own personality, except for Twilight. Twilight is absolutely modeled on Muhammed Ali who has always been right up there as one of my all-time favorite heroes.
Q: Which books will be included in the Legend of the Guardians movie?
Lasky: The first movie, or what we hope will be the first of many, will include books 1 through 3. The movie is going to be CGI and they used a lot of the owls from the Harry Potter movies. It is the same movie company Warner Brothers and the same producer.
Catch Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole will be available in both 3D and regular format in all cinemas beginning September 24. The film is distributed by Warner Bros Pictures.
Warner Bros Pictures releases the official character posters of the most anticipated Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole to be shown in all cinemas nationwide beginning September 24, in both 3D and regular format. The animated film is directed by Zach Snyder same director of Watchmen and 300, the film is based from the best-selling novel of Kathryn Lasky entitled Guardians of Ga’Hoole.
Soren (voice of Jim Sturgess) – A young male Barn Owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. Soren was snatched by patrols from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls.
Gylfie (voice of Emily Barclay) – A female Elf Owl, who is Soren’s best friend. She was snatched by patrols from St. Aggie’s after trying to fly before her wings had completely fledged.
Twilight (voice of Jay Laga’aia) – A male Great Grey Owl who claims that he taught himself everything about surviving (at the orphan school of tough learning),and was abandoned within hours of hatching.
Digger (voice of David Wenham) – A very smart tracking Burrowing Owl. He was separated from his parents when owls from St. Aggie’s attacked his family.
Eglantine (voice of Emilie de Ravin) – A female Barn Owl, Soren’s beloved younger sister.
Kludd (voice of Ryan Kwanten) – A male Barn Owl, older, evil brother of Soren.
Nyra (voice of Helen Mirren) – An enigmatic female Barn Owl.
Metalbeak (voice of Sam Neill) – A mysterious male Barn Owl.
The film follows the journey of Soren who was held captive by the Pure Ones (Owls) with his brother Kludd and were forced to train to join the army that will rule and enslaved all the winged creatures. Soren escaped while Kludd remains with the pure ones, believing with what their father told them about the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole who can defeat the enemies, Soren soars the sky with his friends in search for the possible help from them.
Fly with Soren and his friends beginning September 24 in all theaters nationwide to see anticipated Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole that is available in both 3D and regular format. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Warner Bros Pictures brings a Kathryn Lasky’s creation to the big screen beginning September 24 - Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. The animated film that is available in 3D and regular format is based from Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole fantasy book series. The movie is directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Zareh Nalbandian and features the voice of Jim Sturgess (Soren), Geoffrey Rush (Ezylryb), Emily Barclay (Gylfie), Jay Laga'aia (Twilight), David Wenham (Digger), Ryan Kwanten (Kludd) and Emilie de Ravin (Eglantine).
The film follows the journey of Soren who was held captive by the Pure Ones (Owls) with his brother Kludd and were forced to train to join the army that will rule and enslaved all the winged creatures. Soren escaped while Kludd remains with the pure ones, believing with what their father told them about the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole who can defeat the enemies, Soren soars the sky with his friends in search for the possible help from them.
(Full Trailer of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole with annotations from Director Zack Snyder and Producer Zareh Nalbandian)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is written by Emil Stern and John Orloff and will be shown in both 3D and regular format in all cinemas nationwide beginning September 24, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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