The Big Everything

The Big Everything (2015)

Le Grand Tout

The space road movie

Niels is overjoyed when he hears about the black hole that will drastically reduce his prison sentence. He’s been chosen for his talents as a mechanic to take part in a special mission: escorting a band of eccentric scientists in a spaceship to a black hole that is fifty light years away from Earth. The deal seems more than correct to him as the mission will only take six weeks for them to see Earth again. There’s only one small annoying detail. Those six weeks in hyperspace represent some hundred years on Earth. And that is if everything will go as planned.

Date of release
2015-09-16
TMDB
2.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
Adventure, Science Fiction
Director
Nicolas Bazz

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Everything is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Nicolas Bazz.

Production

The spaceship of the film is very obviously not aerodynamic as it is not made for planetary exploration. It flies through the cosmic void, not through air. In the void there is no resistance and therefore no need for aerodynamics. It is designed for only one purpose, says Nicolas Bazz, interstellar travel, as fast as physically possible.

Before the shoot even started, Nicolas Bazz and Yann Bazz, the former as a producer and the latter as VFX supervisor, made a pact. "No more than a hundred VFX shots". After a full day of shooting and trying to avoid the green screens as much as possible, Nicolas Bazz, as director this time, realized the risk of doing a claustrophobic movie. And so the Bazz brothers made a new pact: there will be as few VFX shots as possible... But not one less.

The main challenge of greenscreen shooting is neither technical (though it does take forever) nor financial (it's still less expensive than shooting in space). No, the main difficulty is in the acting. More specifically, the “black hole gaze”. Usually visual cues such as ping pong or tennis balls are used to focus the actor’ eyes on their virtual partners.

The director, Nicolas Bazz is usually involved in scouting for locations, but scouting the universe behind a VFX artist's shoulder proved very frustrating. To maintain control over sets and vistas, he asked the VFX supervisor to create a director-friendly interface dubbed “The Universe Engine”. “Space vistas creation” is Nicolas Bazz’ fifth credit on the film.

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