David Fincher reflects 13,000 puppets for love, death and robot band 4 Opener with the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Tim Miller's wild animated horror anthology Love, death and robot I have just returned for season 4 and it is when we say it ourselves bigger and better than ever. In an exclusive feature behind the scenes, director David Fincher discussed the work at the start of the season, which contains the legendary Red Hot Chili Peppers as a movement gesture Marionettes made of computer-generated effects-and here is the kicker: the episoden factory at one of their massive concerts, so that there is also a marionet of the mass. That means they had one much to take care of strings.

“I've always wanted to carry out great Marionation in CG,” revealed the filmmaker of the social network. “So I started talking to Tim about it, and he said:” Yes, it can be done. So it is just the band members? “And I said:” No, it's the crowd too. “He somehow looked at me and said:” How many people are in the crowd? “And I said: '12, 13,000. ' And he said: “How many cables per person?” [or] six.' And when he regained awareness, we decided that this was the direction we would go. “

Fincher also explained that everything about movement promotion and marionet work was a bit disease, but something that they could use for their advantage was the specific way how the members of the Chili-Paprika-Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante move and interact with each other.

“One of the things that are interesting to tip something that is supposed to be a puppet is that it behaves very differently,” added the director. “Everything in a puppet is suspending. There is a lot of this kind of work. Should this swing or moves the hand in a way that has a real determination, or is a by -product to move the doll over the stage? [the band] Move yourself and a very specific way of interacting. “

Ultimately, Fincher loves the unlimited possibilities of what this show can be, basically, like this idea – one of his own, which he wanted to do for 30 years – was able to come to life. “Part of what is attractive to me about love, death and robot is the fact that it can be all,” he said.

Fincher produces in the series created by Miller. It was premiered on Netflix in March 2019 after it had spent a whopping 11 years in the development hell, where it started as a restart of the science fiction animated film Heavy Metal from 1981 and was finally transformed into the show that it is today.

Love, Death and Robot Volume 4 can now stream on Netflix.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and freelance entertainment author for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.