How Did A Shot From Wes Ball’s Short Film ‘Ruin’ End Up In J.J. Abrams And Jon Favreau’s ‘Revolution’ Trailer?
By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2012 9:00 am EST
In March, I posted an Wes Ball’s awesome computer animated post-apocalyptic short film Ruin. I’ve heard that the short got many in Hollywood talking. Since the release, I’ve been waiting and expecting to see Ball’s name in a headline of a Hollywood trade news break.
That has yet to happen, so I was surprised when watching the trailer for J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau’s new NBC television series Revolution to see a shot from Ball’s short film. How did a shot from an animated short film end up in a trailer for Bad Robot’s latest? Did JJ and crew pay Ball for the clip or was it completely ripped-off? Answers after the jump. For the sake of comparison, here is a screenshot of the shot from the Revolution Trailer, about 1:05 in:
And here is the shot from Wes’ original short film Ruin, 23 seconds in:
So how did this happen? Well, it seems like Bad Robot asked for permission. Here is a tweet from Wes Ball:
To all concerned folks asking me… My friends at Bad Robot asked to use my RUIN shots in the Revolution promo. Pitch forks not needed. — Wes Ball (@wesball) May 14, 2012
And my inside sources tell me that JJ Abrams was a big fan of Ball’s short film. So there you have it. Might we see Ball set-up a project at Bad Robot in the near future? Who knows…
How Did A Shot From Wes Ball’s Short Film ‘Ruin’ End Up In J.J. Abrams And Jon Favreau’s ‘Revolution’ Trailer?
By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2012 9:00 am EST
In March, I posted an Wes Ball’s awesome computer animated post-apocalyptic short film Ruin. I’ve heard that the short got many in Hollywood talking. Since the release, I’ve been waiting and expecting to see Ball’s name in a headline of a Hollywood trade news break.
That has yet to happen, so I was surprised when watching the trailer for J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau’s new NBC television series Revolution to see a shot from Ball’s short film. How did a shot from an animated short film end up in a trailer for Bad Robot’s latest? Did JJ and crew pay Ball for the clip or was it completely ripped-off? Answers after the jump. For the sake of comparison, here is a screenshot of the shot from the Revolution Trailer, about 1:05 in:
And here is the shot from Wes’ original short film Ruin, 23 seconds in:
So how did this happen? Well, it seems like Bad Robot asked for permission. Here is a tweet from Wes Ball:
To all concerned folks asking me… My friends at Bad Robot asked to use my RUIN shots in the Revolution promo. Pitch forks not needed. — Wes Ball (@wesball) May 14, 2012
And my inside sources tell me that JJ Abrams was a big fan of Ball’s short film. So there you have it. Might we see Ball set-up a project at Bad Robot in the near future? Who knows…
That has yet to happen, so I was surprised when watching the trailer for J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau’s new NBC television series Revolution to see a shot from Ball’s short film. How did a shot from an animated short film end up in a trailer for Bad Robot’s latest? Did JJ and crew pay Ball for the clip or was it completely ripped-off? Answers after the jump.
For the sake of comparison, here is a screenshot of the shot from the Revolution Trailer, about 1:05 in:
And here is the shot from Wes’ original short film Ruin, 23 seconds in:
So how did this happen? Well, it seems like Bad Robot asked for permission. Here is a tweet from Wes Ball:
And my inside sources tell me that JJ Abrams was a big fan of Ball’s short film. So there you have it. Might we see Ball set-up a project at Bad Robot in the near future? Who knows…
To all concerned folks asking me… My friends at Bad Robot asked to use my RUIN shots in the Revolution promo. Pitch forks not needed.
— Wes Ball (@wesball) May 14, 2012
