Hello again guys! Now this is about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I know there is a thread on the game already but no one seems to look at it much.
This thread is about how I was hired for this scene to do martial arts, and help choriograph the scene.
And seeing as you guys are gamers, and i've been posting with you all for years now I would love to read your impressions of the video. It would mean allot to me, as I am trying to buiild my career off of things like this.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/49937#comments_topI do Wushu, its chinese martial arts, and my head coach Eric Chen, was hired because Lucas always intended to have the Sith and Jedi be somewhat of a Samarai VS Shaolin type of deal. But for every movie a western choriographer was hired like a fencer and it never came out exactly how Lucas imagined.
Episode 1 had the first intro duction to Wushu which was Darth Maul, Ray Park. He did the double sided light saber, which was all 100% wushu, by the way, I train with him at my school! Though not in a while since he is working on GI Joe now.
Hopefully George Lucas will see this and know that real wushu martial artists who are actual fans are able to make epic fighting sequences.
This was done at Blur Studios(they do amazing work) and at the house of moves in Los Angeles! Yeah we all got done up with the wet suits and balls every where, it was a blast! They showed me allot of things while I was there behind the scenes, but I wasnt supposed to talk about it.