The Committee to Nuke Elysium

Is everything in the movie explicable?

Everything there has a point, has a reason. Even the orbs, the glowing orbs.

i was gonna ask about them.

Those are remote antennas for the Fluid Karma energy field. You got one of those orbs around, the energy field is more highly concentrated and that’s sort of explained briefly in the graphic novels. Even when Justin Timberlake’s character, Pilot Abilene, when he’s talking about a ‘sea of black umbrellas’ in his crazy, drug-fueled monologue, he’s talking about seeing back into time, to the early 20th Century at the Santa Monica Pier, with all of the umbrellas.

Oh, was that a thing?

In the Cannes cut, there’s a scene where Boxer bleeds back in time to the 1920s and he sees a fortune-teller. He sees Beth Grant in a fortune-teller tent on the beach. There’s a lot of stuff that didn’t even make—there’s a lot of material that people haven’t seen…

There’s still some visual effects that are not where I want them to be. There’s some visual effects work. There are some shots at the end of the movie that I would like to add visual effects. Even just adding some of the content from the Cannes cut and even some of the content that never has still seen the light of day. And the animated—I have always hoped to do the first three chapters as a low-budget, animated feature. To just complete the whole thing or visualize the entire six-chapter story.