- World Premiere: 2020
- Premiere in Russia: March 5, 2020
- Country of Origin: Russia
- Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Family
- Director: Oleg Pogodin
- Cast: Anton Shagin, Mikhail Efremov, Paulina Andreeva
The children's favorite fairy tale about the Humpbacked Horse will be presented in the form of a full-length adventure film, which will be released in large screens in 2020. It will be a familiar story in a new interpretation, with animated characters, original landscapes and, of course, with special effects.
Idea
The Russian directors decided to continue the epic of remakes of folk tales, relying on the success of The Last Knight (2017). This family picture in the fantasy genre for 2 weeks of rental has collected more than a billion rubles, becoming the highest grossing domestic film of 2017. The plot mixed several tales and fairytale characters at once. It turned out a kind of hodgepodge, which was enjoyed by adults and children. Although the opinions of critics were divided, and some of them gave the film negative feedback.
The revival of Russian fairy tales in a new format seemed interesting, so soon the world will see the "Humpbacked Horse". The story about the simple-minded Ivan and his faithful assistant - a small clever horse - the audience is well aware of the animated film of the same name. This colorful and musical tale, created in 1947 and finalized in 1975, has become one of the most popular in the Soviet Union. The cartoon lasts almost an hour and is a full-length picture. Walt Disney praised the Russian Little Humpbacked Horse, admiring the excellent work of the artists.
The Little Humpbacked Horse 2020 is a fairy tale film with real people playing their roles. But there will be computer animated characters there: the Little Humpbacked Horse himself, the Firebird, the Wonder-Yudo Fish-Whale, etc.
New technologies and special effects
The 2020 film "The Little Humpbacked Horse" is positioned as a Russian blockbuster. The authors can afford such a loud statement, because the budget of the picture is almost 800 million rubles. This is 2.5 times more than the budget of “Attraction” (2017) by Bondarchuk.
The bulk of the finances is spent on introducing a new technology called ViewGA (in common people - “Blizzard”). This is an augmented reality system that has been successfully demonstrated in other domestic box office films: “He is a Dragon” (2015), “Crew” (2016). "Blizzard" allows you to simulate a scene even before the actors connect to it. So the director can run the episode several times to see how to do better. This saves the actors time, and also reduces the number of shooting days, because all the details have already been worked out in advance.
The director is The Humpbacked Horse Oleg Pogodin (Invincible, 2008, Home, 2011), and is produced by Sergei Selyanov (The Story of a Single Purpose, 2018, What Men Talk About: continued, 2018). The head of the studio responsible for the schedule, Alexander Gorokhov, plays an important role in creating the film-fairy tale. The creators of the picture have no right to make a mistake, because she has too much budget and expectations. Therefore, each step is worked out very carefully.
Where are the shootings
If the viewer remembers, then the action of the fairy tale "The Little Humpbacked Horse" takes place in various locations. Moreover, more often this is not an enclosed space (for example, the royal chambers), but open landscapes. Therefore, a huge pavilion with an area of more than 7 thousand square meters was rebuilt for filming. Yes, almost all of nature and other scenery will be recreated on a computer, but anyway, a fairy tale needs room. Therefore, the small pavilions did not fit.
The heroes of the tale will have to use all their acting talents to portray admiration for beautiful nature or amazement at the scale of Miracle-Yud, because in reality they will not see all this. All objects will be finished later. Actors simply move around the huge pavilion.
Actors and roles
The creators of the movie "The Little Humpbacked Horse" 2020 did not begin to invent anything new and introduce additional characters. The plot is based on the original tale of Peter Ershov, and the characters in it are the same.
There is a feeling that the authors of the picture selected the actors in accordance with the similarity with the characters in the cartoon. Otherwise, how else to explain that Anton Shagin ("Hipsters", 2008, "Friday", 2016), who has a real "folk" appearance with a potato nose and kind naive eyes, became Ivan. The refined Paulina Andreeva will play the beautiful Tsar-Maiden (Thaw, 2013, Locust, 2013), and the Tsar will be played by Mikhail Efremov, who needs no introduction.
Paulina Andreeva
But fabulous characters deserve special attention. The Humpbacked Horse will be played by Pavel Derevyanko (Tumbler, 2007, Salute-7, 2017). And it will play, and not just voice. This is also a special technology when all the movements and facial expressions of an actor are transferred to a drawn character. Pavel in this regard has a little more complicated, because he needs not only to pronounce the text, but also to portray the emotions of the Humpbacked Horse in an original way. Derevyanko does all this in a special helmet with a camera that reads facial expressions from the actor’s face.
Lyaysan Utyasheva was chosen for the role of the Firebird, because only a real gymnast can cope with the choreographic part of her fairy-tale heroine. This spectacle also promises to be very interesting, with bright colors and tints. And Alexander Semchev will depict the Fish-Whale (he also played Wonder-Yudo in The Last Bogatyr), despite the fact that the actor lost a lot of weight.
The film "The Little Humpbacked Horse" is already being actively shot. The release date is set for early 2020, but if the creators are delayed, the audience will forgive them, because the picture promises to be grandiose.
How to shoot the film "Little Humpbacked Horse" 2020: video from the set
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