1 00:00:19,995 --> 00:00:23,507 STILL MORE… EXTRA STUFF 2 00:00:24,499 --> 00:00:28,262 Ok. That was Giga Shadow. 3 00:00:29,151 --> 00:00:31,862 Picture number four in the LEXX pilot cycle. 4 00:00:33,688 --> 00:00:35,863 And that was directed by Robert Sigl. 5 00:00:36,964 --> 00:00:38,782 Robert Sigl is from Munich. 6 00:00:39,305 --> 00:00:42,571 And in case you didn’t assume it from the show – 7 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:46,699 Robert Sigl is a very… unique human being. 8 00:00:48,274 --> 00:00:49,600 Very unique guy, 9 00:00:49,806 --> 00:00:52,167 he is a… If you’re talking about enthusiasm… 10 00:00:52,386 --> 00:00:54,373 He would take us… you know… 11 00:00:54,434 --> 00:00:55,813 I mean if he were directing… 12 00:00:55,930 --> 00:01:01,439 If Robert Sigl were directing like a supper scene with like a mum and dad and a kid 13 00:01:01,583 --> 00:01:05,017 having supper it would not be an ordinary supper scene. 14 00:01:05,127 --> 00:01:11,871 It would be an absolutely the most scene father with supper... out of him… 15 00:01:11,950 --> 00:01:16,744 and then the mother hacking the bird to pieces and then the little boy crying 16 00:01:16,816 --> 00:01:19,721 with the candles burning, flickering on his eyes... 17 00:01:19,792 --> 00:01:23,385 you know I mean he’s gets kind wild up a little bit… 18 00:01:23,417 --> 00:01:24,175 but enthusiasm! 19 00:01:26,819 --> 00:01:28,276 that’s the alarm signal 20 00:01:28,341 --> 00:01:29,900 and like this 21 00:01:36,854 --> 00:01:39,705 and he has a long pipe doing this 22 00:01:41,419 --> 00:01:43,890 It’s a gothic space opera for me. 23 00:01:44,945 --> 00:01:49,736 The atmosphere, the visual… the visuallity… the visual elements… 24 00:01:50,747 --> 00:01:54,121 the mystery horror science-fiction 25 00:01:55,785 --> 00:01:59,712 also the concealed eroticism in it… 26 00:02:00,278 --> 00:02:03,873 I like that very much and the story plots. 27 00:02:04,051 --> 00:02:08,566 The plots, the story outlines everything… characters are very-very unique 28 00:02:08,791 --> 00:02:13,005 and completely different to the most of the other science-fiction films. 29 00:02:13,162 --> 00:02:16,958 So this has much more to do with "Alien" H.R. Giger 30 00:02:17,088 --> 00:02:20,510 then it has to do with for instance "Star Track" or "Star Wars". 31 00:02:20,791 --> 00:02:25,337 Well actually it’s a little bit strange for me to realize 32 00:02:25,596 --> 00:02:32,587 or to grasp the facts that the Americans really seem to have no problem 33 00:02:32,807 --> 00:02:36,640 with the portrayal of violence but they shrink back 34 00:02:36,694 --> 00:02:42,888 and get frenzy and despaired whenever this portrait. 35 00:02:43,143 --> 00:02:50,593 And this is something that Europeans.. that’s very hard for Europeans to understand. 36 00:02:51,142 --> 00:02:55,026 Actually the fantasy is not very popular in Germany. 37 00:02:55,509 --> 00:02:58,137 It is popular whenever I comes from America, 38 00:02:58,344 --> 00:03:01,210 then mass audiences walk into the movie theatres. 39 00:03:01,371 --> 00:03:09,502 But they also are extreme behave strangely in the film business 40 00:03:09,794 --> 00:03:15,644 if German film directors come up with stories like that or try to shoot movies like this. 41 00:03:15,877 --> 00:03:19,632 And this is strange and odd because we have a very big tradition in Germany 42 00:03:19,864 --> 00:03:27,890 Well I’m convinced that it has something to do with 43 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,812 expelling and killing of all the creative forces. 44 00:03:33,445 --> 00:03:37,832 And it still shows in German cinema, in modern German cinema, 45 00:03:37,939 --> 00:03:46,287 the big loss of big artists and big loss of... for instance. 46 00:03:47,382 --> 00:03:54,225 And we have to fight for making our films better and more interesting to the audiences. 47 00:03:56,050 --> 00:04:00,323 The only problem with Robert Sigl is that he would also get (warmed up) 48 00:04:00,385 --> 00:04:02,919 to the night before shooting into three hours of the morning. 49 00:04:03,270 --> 00:04:06,782 And Robert Sigl also wanted to become an actor himself. 50 00:04:07,170 --> 00:04:11,379 When we went off to Berlin working on the up-coming shows 51 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:14,511 Robert Sigl starts putting himself in the show and you can see him. 52 00:04:22,656 --> 00:04:25,502 The Giga Shadow must not be 53 00:04:33,975 --> 00:04:34,498 Cut 54 00:04:35,455 --> 00:04:36,833 Oh, Divine Merciful Shadow… 55 00:04:34,834 --> 00:04:41,170 So ok we start the shot with you’re moving in… 56 00:04:41,507 --> 00:04:44,386 He saying to guard: "the Cleansing is complete" 57 00:04:44,723 --> 00:04:48,074 then they do their lines then you do this of screen… 58 00:04:48,394 --> 00:04:51,791 then they join in in the singing. Ok. That’s it. 59 00:04:53,684 --> 00:04:54,976 Ok. So basically you don’t really need me. 60 00:05:23,179 --> 00:05:24,489 Cut 61 00:05:25,782 --> 00:05:28,361 But he’s a... 62 00:05:26,754 --> 00:05:29,942 He’s a gifted artist. 63 00:05:30,713 --> 00:05:33,488 And I think we’re very lucky to have… 64 00:05:33,673 --> 00:05:36,489 Well you know I mean to me he survived rumors 65 00:05:37,228 --> 00:05:40,078 in another studio he got thrown out. 66 00:05:40,187 --> 00:05:43,210 But that’s another story. That happened too… 67 00:05:43,306 --> 00:05:45,956 It is only because his enthusiasm. But it’s ok. 68 00:05:46,141 --> 00:05:48,486 Who hasn’t among us been thrown out of the couple of bars? 69 00:05:48,574 --> 00:05:51,225 Ok, and then there was Michael Habeck. 70 00:05:51,705 --> 00:05:54,746 He made a small role and that’s a friend of Robert Sigl’s 71 00:05:57,829 --> 00:05:58,646 who… Robert’s friend… 72 00:05:59,936 --> 00:06:04,532 Who… You maybe recognize from… in the name of the roles. 73 00:06:05,219 --> 00:06:12,486 Yeah, he played a monk so… Very good preparation for being a friend of Robert Sigl’s… 74 00:06:13,538 --> 00:06:16,679 Having you know spent time in a monastery with no women. 75 00:06:20,927 --> 00:06:21,976 Good friends. 76 00:06:23,256 --> 00:06:26,509 He came over here and was Feppo in the movie. 77 00:06:27,062 --> 00:06:31,455 Ok and also in number four – what else should be said about it? – 78 00:06:35,359 --> 00:06:37,408 Hm…. Ok…. Bzzzz time’s up. 79 00:06:38,140 --> 00:06:43,960 Malcolm McDowell… The great, the legend. The myth, the legend, 80 00:06:44,537 --> 00:06:48,513 the sparkle white hair… He’s great he’s just… you know… 81 00:06:48,719 --> 00:06:54,200 I think he had like a couple of weeks you know free… because a project fell through. 82 00:06:54,558 --> 00:07:03,852 He just wanted to come and be a part of these thing. He had like two weeks… 83 00:07:16,897 --> 00:07:19,032 Oh, these Canadians are pain in the ass. 84 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,201 I mean… Jesus, I don’t know... Wow... I don’t know, 85 00:07:24,392 --> 00:07:27,835 I mean… You’re asking me what it’s like to work here… 86 00:07:28,084 --> 00:07:28,861 Can’t wait to get home 87 00:07:29,294 --> 00:07:35,272 I’m.. Don’t ask me about the plots and stuff I don’t. 88 00:07:35,350 --> 00:07:38,026 All I’m hoping for – and I know this is gonna happen – computer boys are gonna save us. 89 00:07:38,118 --> 00:07:41,693 Special effects are gonna be amazing. And that’s really what this is about. 90 00:07:42,982 --> 00:07:46,012 As long as you like to watch the characters as well and I think.. 91 00:07:46,177 --> 00:07:50,144 you know, Michael and Eva are very good actors, 92 00:07:50,222 --> 00:07:52,938 you’ll really get… the public will get to like them 93 00:07:53,003 --> 00:07:57,635 and I think they all do a good job… and we’ll be all right we’ll be saved. 94 00:07:57,999 --> 00:08:01,473 It’s hard to say what’s a good director what’s a good these and that… 95 00:08:01,571 --> 00:08:06,245 I think the main thing is: did you enjoy it? Did you feel you did a good job? 96 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:10,183 I think yes, and I think that everybody else did and everybody enjoyed this so… 97 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,681 That’s all you can ask for. I suppose the critics will be the next ones to kill us. 98 00:08:14,870 --> 00:08:20,956 At this stage in my life I don’t want to get stock doing one thing 99 00:08:21,031 --> 00:08:23,478 I want to do a little bit of this and that … I want to do a film and do a play and… 100 00:08:23,609 --> 00:08:26,080 that’s the way I keep myself from being bored. 101 00:08:26,764 --> 00:08:31,214 Oh, I’d played some really exotic characters in my time and I could not claim that 102 00:08:31,311 --> 00:08:37,799 for Yottscry but he’s certainly… He’s up there somewhere and I’m not quite sure where… 103 00:08:37,905 --> 00:08:41,719 I mean to make an entrance through this… is quite something. 104 00:08:44,458 --> 00:08:48,703 Looks like an enormous brain or something. It’s not the sphincter, is it? 105 00:08:49,828 --> 00:08:50,364 Oh, that’s above it.. 106 00:08:50,534 --> 00:08:54,961 Something quite disgusting anyway. I would not like it on toast, would you? 107 00:08:59,090 --> 00:09:00,614 I told you smoking was bad for you! 108 00:09:01,827 --> 00:09:03,021 I must stop this madness… 109 00:09:04,674 --> 00:09:08,835 I must fulfil this prophesy… f-f-f my teeth are coming out so never mind. 110 00:09:10,708 --> 00:09:16,223 That’s for me to know and for you to find out. 111 00:09:17,876 --> 00:09:19,497 But what is the catch of the day? 112 00:09:24,698 --> 00:09:26,878 The fishing in this lake is very good! 113 00:09:36,327 --> 00:09:40,636 I feel like a long prick. I felt like an assle before, now I feel like a prick. 114 00:09:41,702 --> 00:09:43,485 We have to say he was not the first choice. 115 00:09:43,609 --> 00:09:47,245 We wanted Douglas Herd. For the role of the guy with this knife... 116 00:09:48,333 --> 00:09:54,312 But you know talk to their agencies… like China talk to a Great Wall… 117 00:09:54,313 --> 00:10:02,779 We felt that he would be great but Malcolm McDowell graciously stepped in when Douglas could not. 118 00:10:04,234 --> 00:10:07,982 Ok, what we should talk about and what we really want to talk about at the end of this, 119 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,642 is not about those pictures cause now you’ve seen them and can make your own conclusions 120 00:10:11,643 --> 00:10:15,251 but we would like to talk about is what we are planning to take. 121 00:10:13,394 --> 00:10:20,189 And a plan is to do a series of twenty hours and then another twenty hours 122 00:10:20,306 --> 00:10:22,510 and then another twenty hours and then to take over the world. 123 00:10:22,753 --> 00:10:28,330 And so we’ve been writing scripts. And Jeff has written one script called Livliner. 124 00:10:28,565 --> 00:10:29,322 Tell them about Livliner. 125 00:10:30,095 --> 00:10:37,656 The Livliner is… when our heroes find themselves in front of a satellite of ill repute 126 00:10:38,428 --> 00:10:42,995 and they you know both being lonely in space and no one ever being able to get it on … 127 00:10:43,086 --> 00:10:48,027 nd they decide to go in and check out the action with hilarious results. 128 00:10:49,502 --> 00:10:50,725 Livliner blows up of course. 129 00:10:51,070 --> 00:10:52,442 Of course! Everything gets blowing up. 130 00:10:53,263 --> 00:10:56,728 Ok, and Lex is working on something that particularly 131 00:10:57,118 --> 00:11:00,117 the small screen called Lafftrack. 132 00:11:00,571 --> 00:11:10,906 Well, in Lafftrack we can look forward to… Basically 133 00:11:10,996 --> 00:11:14,612 what happens is that… when the dawn dies 134 00:11:15,587 --> 00:11:17,796 then there is a big power struggle among the three sons 135 00:11:17,889 --> 00:11:21,209 who’s gonna take over you know the oil importing business… 136 00:11:21,790 --> 00:11:28,299 Hey, that’s another show you were watching! 137 00:11:29,826 --> 00:11:30,731 Oh, right.. 138 00:11:32,451 --> 00:11:39,172 No, no it’s a planet, that’s a TV planet… 139 00:11:39,357 --> 00:11:42,206 Oh, yeah! There’s a TV planet and they go… 140 00:11:42,297 --> 00:11:45,623 and they sort of participate in kind of like TV shows and laugh… 141 00:11:45,823 --> 00:11:47,227 Actual prophlets… 142 00:11:48,228 --> 00:11:51,854 Unfortunately they land on me and that’s the problem… 143 00:11:52,139 --> 00:12:04,491 But it’s funny. Fun-ny… You laugh, you cry… Ok, so they go to this planet and Zev becomes.. 144 00:12:04,973 --> 00:12:08,079 it was sort of like west world kind of thing. 145 00:12:09,335 --> 00:12:11,402 It’s like you’re going in and you participate in a show… 146 00:12:12,497 --> 00:12:22,398 Zev becomes very popular. You can be in your own show. 147 00:12:23,812 --> 00:12:26,489 Zev becomes very very popular she does really-really well. 148 00:12:26,729 --> 00:12:33,558 Stan doesn’t do so well. And then he ends up on a thing called specialty channel 149 00:12:34,347 --> 00:12:38,343 which is… not a good thing, you don’t want to really go on specialty channel. 150 00:12:38,479 --> 00:12:42,612 You only make one appearance on specialty channel. It’s kind of like old roman theatre. 151 00:12:43,176 --> 00:12:44,167 Old Roman theatre. 152 00:12:48,179 --> 00:12:52,168 Ok, I’m working on the script opening one of the season 153 00:12:52,529 --> 00:12:55,136 which is sort of sets up the return of His Shadow 154 00:12:55,724 --> 00:12:57,870 and I’m also working on Stan’s trial. 155 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:08,816 And after we do this, this first cycle of twenty we have an actual end to the whole series. 156 00:13:09,976 --> 00:13:14,308 We know what will happen in that show. And you don’t. 157 00:13:14,634 --> 00:13:17,060 But it’s actually quite cool. 158 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:23,102 I think, the surprise ending could be the only way that you could describe it. 159 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:27,961 It would be so surprising. You’ll be surprised. You’ll be… We’re even surprised right now. 160 00:13:28,662 --> 00:13:34,084 We would be surprised if we get there because some people don’t entirely approve what we’re doing. 161 00:13:34,468 --> 00:13:34,928 No. 162 00:13:35,086 --> 00:13:37,707 There are some people who for some reason feel 163 00:13:37,854 --> 00:13:44,377 that showing beautiful women in skimpy clothing is uncanadian or something. 164 00:13:44,516 --> 00:13:45,147 And squishy things. 165 00:13:45,248 --> 00:13:45,711 Squishy things. 166 00:13:45,886 --> 00:13:47,903 And then you know and then 167 00:13:47,987 --> 00:13:50,197 when time magazine decides to put us on the cover … 168 00:13:50,298 --> 00:13:52,444 everything is wrong with television. 169 00:13:53,607 --> 00:14:01,110 But we should say thank you for watching.. 170 00:14:01,423 --> 00:14:02,379 Yes, thank you for watching! 171 00:14:02,937 --> 00:14:08,437 And if you’re ever in Halifacs come here we’re at the third on the left… 172 00:14:09,847 --> 00:14:12,973 Come over and you can take us out for a drink. 173 00:14:13,254 --> 00:14:14,914 And if you believe that baby, 174 00:14:15,309 --> 00:14:16,975 you’ll believe anything! 175 00:14:32,976 --> 00:14:37,976 Subtitles: Lunatik