Taking a page out of Edgar Wright’s film process playbook, the production of Greg Mottola’s “Paul” has created a blog to document the trials and tribulations of the film’s development called, What is Paul?
While the site has been up for a few weeks now, videos have thus far been mundane, slices of life kind of stuff (e.g. “Simon, Nick and Kristen learn to drive the film’s RV”). Today, however, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost – the film’s stars and scribes – have debuted a short video where they take to discussing the film’s plot and formally introduce us to the cast and director.
“The film is about two British sci-fi geeks played by us who go to America to sort of experience the U.F.O. culture don’t they? They go to Area 51 and happen upon a stranded alien who they subsequently help to get back to his ship – all the while pursued by all sort of dark forces and meeting up with people on the way. It’s a rip-roaring adventure.”
Included in the number of clips interwoven in the video are scenes of intense action (rolling exploding cop cars, shotguns firing at RV’s), of Seth Rogen geared up in the motion capture technology and of the majority of cast which Pegg roll calls as follows: Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Blythe Danner, Jason Bateman, Joe Lo Truglio, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, David Koechner, Jesse Plemons, John Carroll Lynch and Jane Lynch.
“Paul” is currently filming in New Mexico and likely arriving in the summer of 2010. One would imagine anyhow.