{"id":12824,"date":"2012-11-22T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2012-11-22T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:26:42","slug":"the-host-2-first-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/the-host-2-first-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Host 2: First Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for some years that a sequel to the excellent South Korean giant monster film <em>The Host<\/em> [aka Gwoemul] (South Korea-2006; dir. Joon-ho Bong) was on the way, but now you can see the first footage from the film &#8212; and it&#8217;s a doozy!<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<object width=\"630\" height=\"474\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/ictv-tf-ec.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/50ab8eb758ab3\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer^player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"630\" height=\"474\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/ictv-tf-ec.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/50ab8eb758ab3\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer^player.swf\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I love the awkward movement of the creature, its on-land clumsiness a logical consequence of its shape and amphibian nature. The fact that it slips and slides and stumbles about somewhat makes the whole thing both more believable and more horrific. Will <em>The Host 2<\/em> be even darker than its predecessor? From the look of that scene, and the apparently inevitable fate of those children, it seems likely&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Twitchfilm reports that the CG effects were produced within Korea by Macrograph, the VFX company behind <em>R2B: Return to Base<\/em> (aka <em>Soar Into the Sun<\/em>), <em>A Chinese Ghost Story<\/em> and Stephen Chow&#8217;s upcoming <em>Journey to the West<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard no word on who&#8217;s directing yet &#8212; though we do know it isn&#8217;t Joon-ho Bong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.com\/2012\/11\/first-horrific-footage-for-the-host-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitchfilm<\/a> via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for some years that a sequel to the excellent South Korean giant monster film The Host [aka Gwoemul] (South Korea-2006; dir. Joon-ho Bong) was on the way, but now you can see the first footage from the film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/the-host-2-first-footage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,26,62],"tags":[1168,1169,1167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12828,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}