Amiel Breaks Ground In Core
Scifi.com — Jon Amiel, who directed the subterranean action-adventure film The Core, told SCI FI Wire that his film goes deeper than Jules Verne’s SF classic Journey to the Center of the Earth, with which it shares a similar premise.
“What’s so interesting is that nobody has actually thought to make a movie about that, or tell a story about that, for 150 years,” Amiel said in an interview.
“The movie that was made in 1959 was based on a story that was over 150 years old. … Well, I think it’s time to say, ‘You did a great job, Jules, for what you knew then, [but] it’s time to set the record straight.’”
Amiel added that he welcomed the opportunity to expand Verne’s concept with modern science and technology.
“It was part of the challenge and also part of what made this project so exhilarating to do,” he said.
“We really felt we were going where no movie had really gone before, a real journey to a real center of this planet. And we really did try to use every bit of science that was available to us to make that journey feel real.”
Amiel said that he hopes that audiences will look past the special effects and fantastical elements of the film to the relevant message that’s just beneath the surface.
“[It's] about heroism, about our use and abuse of the planet, and about, in a sense, something that we see so little of—but, God, how much I wish we’d see more of—that in the face of great disaster, … the world [can] come together, pool its resources, its ingenuity, and pull itself back from the brink of catastrophe by the use of a common endeavor. To me that feels like a theme that couldn’t be more timely.”
The Core opens March 28.
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