At Comic-Con, film directors the Hughes Brothers and the cast of “Book Of Eli” came to chat about the upcoming action epic starring the ever cheerful Denzel Washington. Whatever you do though, don’t call it Post Apocalyptic, remember it’s Post Event-alyptic.
Though the film follows Denzel Washington as he stalks the mean and dusty byways of a torn and ravaged Earth, protecting something of great value that may usher into being a new hope for a devastated civilization, remember that this is no ordinary clone of Max Max or The Road. This film has a different mojo.
“[We're] trying to set it aside from the other movies that are out there and find colors that work and hit your eye pretty quickly to say, ‘OK, that doesn’t look like, say, The Road or Mad Max,’” Albert Hughes said. “Mad Max or The Road had that color. It’s as simple as that sometimes. I personally avoided even reading or looking at The Road, but I think that’s a more serious kind of dramatic movie, from what I’ve heard. It’s very depressing, so I think it’s different, and I’ve seen some stuff lately. It’s just a very different movie.”
Ok, the color palette is important. Plus I’m not sure the father hero of “The Road” is much equipped for the kind of sword wielding, kung fu action that our man Denzel seems fired up to do.
In the moral darkness after The Book Of Eli’s world wreaking “event”, a desperate population will kill you for your tasty shoe leather or perhaps stalk you for a more terrible wasteland delicacy.
“People kill now for things they used to throw away,” Washington said. “There are a few meat sandwiches. I’ll leave it at that. There are some meat sandwiches that are eaten in the film. I didn’t say I did. I just said there were meat sandwiches.”
What mysterious meat will be revealed in The Book of Eli? Will it be a lunchbox letdown? There’s more crunchy fare for your hungry mind and more interview to be had at Scifiwire. The Book of Eli gets illuminated by the big light on January 15, 2010.
