Stephen Root from "Office Space" told MTV about a secret project. Gore Verbinski, Director of Rango wanted the cast of Rango to shoot the film.
“We actually rented a soundstage on the Universal lot and shot the whole film, 8 pages a day,” Root said of the movie, which had Depp running around a vacant stage, pretending he had bug-eyes and green scales.
“We used no makeup, but some costumes and some sketch scenery and props,” he continued. “We’d shoot a scene, then go over to another part of the stage and record the lines clean for the animation. We’ll continue to do that for the next two years. It was interesting, because we were filming an animated movie.”
“It’s a Western in the sense that these animals are in a desert town, and the story takes place in an Arizona desert town,” Root explained of the film. “It’s now, but once you’re out in the desert it might as well be 1850. I play the drunk rabbit Doc, and Mr. Merrymac the Owl Banker. I also do a porcupine, a minor character. But that was the fun part about doing it with Gore – we’d get to the porcupine and he’d say “There’s a character with three lines, who’d be good at that? You!”
“Obviously, his films have made a couple of bucks, so they gave him the leeway to do this,” Root explained of Verbisnki’s unusual shoot. “Gore wanted to see our movements, our expressions, what camera angles he wants [the animators] to use…It was huge that Johnny would come in and do this for him.”
“It was fun. Everybody played the script, so it was pretty contained, but there was some improv-ing going on,” explained Root, who stars in this week’s new film “Bob Funk” with Rachael Leigh Cook. “I hope Gore got a lot out of it. I guess we’ll see later on in the process.”
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