Entertainment Spy Kids 3D - Pint-sized secret agents return in state-of-the-art 3D sequel
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DATELINE: Los Angeles, 14th July 2003
SHOTLIST
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1. Clip trailer - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Banderas:
"It's about fighting into technology, they got into some kind of machine and you're going to see that, and he becomes something else - he becomes digital. I'm talking about Juni in this case and he just goes on with the family concept, adding those parts of the family that are important. You know like grandpa and grandma, they're going to be very person in the movie and that is very important too, just to understand the Cortezes."
3. FIlm clip - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
4. B-roll Daryl Sabara in front of green screen
5. B-roll Alexa Vega in front of green screen
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexa Vega:
"Definitely stunts and using your imagination in front of the green screen because a lot of people have said isn't that difficult? But for us it's normal because we've been doing it for the past four years but I think it's something that if you're not used to it it could be difficult. So I guess stunts and being in front of a green screen."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daryl Sabara:
"Definitely stunts...that would be stunts. I love the stunts, they are so cool. I actually in this movie I got to do all my own stunts and I trained for four months, four hours a day, six days a week."
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8. Film clip - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvester Stallone:
"At first you go 'how hard can this be?' and then you get on set and all of a sudden you get flop sweat, you start dripping inside your uniform and only you know it but you go I'm a little nervous here, I'm a little scared, I'm bombing. No-one is really laughing at the moment so you think you're hysterical and you're monotonously boring. So it takes a while to get over stage fright I think. For those who have never been engulfed in screen, it's an experience."
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10. Various Sylvester Stallone takes scenes
11. Director Robert Rodriguez watches Stallone on monitor
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Rodriguez, Director:
"It's fun for me because I'm in ultimate control. They have no idea what they're doing or where they are or what they're holding because they don't even have a prop in their hand as it'd have to be created by the game so they are like 'what are we doing? where am I?' I say 'don't worry about it, just look over here and do that' and it's so fun because I love surprising the actors too by just giving them very little information, just enough to get what I need."
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13. Film clip - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Banderas:
"I don't remember the last time that we saw a 3D Movie with a story. You can go to an Imax theatre and technological and you new sounds and whatever and you can see this type of performance, but they last for 20 minutes only.But a dramatic movie from the beginning to the end with 3D - that's something that is going to be very interesting...just to see the reactions of the people. Besides, you have to remember one thing, that 3D now is not the 3D that could be presented in movie theatres 20 years ago - it's totally different. This is a digital recording and 3D so I think the kids will have a blast."
15. Film clip - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexa Vega:
"It's one of those things, you grow up with these people. I went from a little girl to a teenager and everyone has seen me grow up so it's really hard leaving them because it's like saying goodbye to your aunt or your uncle because working with the crew members you're just so attached."
SOUNDBITE: Daryl Sabara
"I've been doing Spy Kids for like a third of my life so it's kind of hard saying goodbye, but then again, I know I'm going to come back and see everybody."
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17. Film clip - 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over'
SPY KIDS ARE BACK - IN 3D
Juni and Carmen Cortez - officially the coolest kids in the movie universe - are back with a third instalment of 'Spy Kids', following the huge success of the first two movies.
International agents Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen (Alexa Varga), along with their parents Gregorio (Antonia Banderas) and Ingrid (Carla Gugino), are back in a new adventure from writer/director Robert Rodriguez. But this time there's a new twist - not only is much of the film set in the virtual world of a computer game, called 'Game Over', the movie is in 3-D.
3-D was a fad in cinemas in the 1950s, with films like 'The House of Wax' (directed by the one-eyed Hungarian Andre De Toth) briefly capturing the publc imagination. It has also been revived recently for the IMAX format. But 'Spy Kids 3: Game Over' is probably the first full-length mainstream feature to incorporate the new generation of digital 3-D technology.
Antonio Banderas for one is excited: "A dramatic movie from the beginning to the end with 3-D - that's something that is going to be very interesting...just to see the reactions of the people. Besides, you have to remember one thing, that 3-D now is not the 3-D that could be presented in movie theatres 20 years ago - it's totally different. This is a digital recording and 3D so I think the kids will have a blast."
Action star Sylvester Stallone, who joins the cast as the evil games inventot the Toymaker, may be a movie veteran but even he found getting used to working next to a green screen something of a challenge. "At first you go 'how hard can this be?' and then you get on set and all of a sudden you get flop sweat, you start dripping inside your uniform and only you know it but you go I'm a little nervous here, I'm a little scared, I'm bombing. . . For those who have never been engulfed in screen, it's an experience."
In the new movie, Carmen gets caught up in a virtual reality game - 'Game Over' - designed by the kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker, played by Stallone. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and the world. 'Fans of the first two movies can expect more of the same - great visuals, gadgets, great action, and great adventure, but this time with the added bonus of 3-D.
Cinemagoers donning special glasses to enjoy the new movie will also see a few familiar faces in the cast, including Ricardo Montalban as Grandfather, Salma Hayek and George Clooney, in an uncredited role.
'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over' is released in the US today (25 JULY) and goes on release across Europe from next week.
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