Zack Snyder and his biggest challenge: Include Tig Notaro digitally in "Army of the dead"

At this point, no one should be surprised by the technical and special effects capabilities of a film director like Zack Snyder. Virtually all of his films have a very high percentage of post-production effects, something that can be seen in any photo of filming of Justice League or Sucker Punch. This consolidated experience should mean that in the gimmicky field there is little left to learn for Snyder and on the contrary, in his latest film he has faced the greatest challenge of his career: Include Tig Notaro digitally in Army of the Dead. , Netflix announced the replacement of actor Chris D´Elia for the allegations of sexual harassment. Star Trek: Discovery actor Tig Notaro would be in charge of replacing him. But what is done with everything that had been recorded of the actor and how is Notaro included in the film? Well, by recording his scenes separately, adding them later digitally in the final film. In an interview with Digital Spy, the director mentioned the difficulty of the entire replacement process: “The biggest challenge was doing exactly what you imagine, shooting Tig in all the different environments and scenarios “and added explaining the process” Everything is simply placing Tig on a green screen, in chairs, standing up and firing a gun, and simply matching the lighting. ” Although Snyder tells it in a simple and casual way, the reality is that replicating the exact lighting of scenes that have already been shot is complicated if you do not want it to be visible to the viewer, that is why he specified that “it was a technical exercise” in many senses for him, as it is his film shot with a more crude lighting concept to show more realism.Zack Snyder also praised Tig Notaro’s performance because of how difficult it can be to shoot without real stimuli and having joined the production so late, stating that Notaro is “incredible” and that his performance is “literally perfect.” The director claimed that he could not be happier with the result of the performance, playing a somewhat abrupt helicopter pilot.