Industrial Light & magic has a beautiful interactive site about the CGI magic behind Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest.
There is a lot of background information about how they turned a handsome actor (Bill Nighy) into a handsome Squid : Davy Jones. Watch the video clips, download wallpapers, eat your pirate heart [...]
Spike and Whitey watching over Regent Street
A part of the (voice) cast from Flushed Away showed up in London yesterday to switch on the Christmas lights in Regent Street. Sir Ian McKellen (the Toad), Andy Serkis (Spike) and Shane Richie (Sid) wished the crowd a Merry Christmas and pushed the button to reveal the light [...]
Comingsoon.net has another clip of Flushed Away, with the villainous Toad (McKellen) and his two hapless henchrats, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy).
Watch it here (it’s quicktime format)
Bill Nighy - Whitey, albino ex-lab rat in Flushed Away
Movieweb has several new movie stills from the upcoming Flushed Away. Bill Nighy does the voice of Whitey, a not too bright white albino ex-lab rat. But hey, he gets to wear a suit, and you got to love his chain.
Other voice actors in this [...]
Movieweb has an interview with Bill too. He talks about Pirates (of course) but he also talks about Whitey, singing and computer pyjamas.
“To switch gears a little, your next film will be the animated hit, Flushed Away; what was that like getting in the booth for that?
Bill Nighy: It’s kind of strange actually at first; [...]
JimHillmedia has some insight information about Flushed Away the new project of Aardman animation film, known for the Oscar winning Wallace & Gommit and Chicken Run. Even though Flushed Away is not going to be clay animation but entirely computer graphics, the film should be a lot of fun to watch.
What the film is about [...]