In the coming musical biopic Better Man, the character of Robbie Williams is a chimp, though everyone else around him is human. It's a leap that the director Michael Gracey... is betting moviegoers will take.
His plan was to rely on the magicians at Weta FX in New Zealand to design a computer-generated monkey, something similar to the process that turned Andy Serkis into Caesar in the Planet of the Apes franchise.
The monkey, said Gracey, was the thing for me that clicked, and it was also the thing that made the film near impossible to finance.
Multiple times, Gracey said, I would sit down with financiers. They would say, Director of The Greatest Showman, Robbie Williams. I couldn't be more excited about this. How much do you think?' And I w...
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