Martin Campbell believes that the only way to learn about CGI and working with blue screen was to do it.
Campbell has tackled CGi for the very first time on his new movie Green Lantern, the latest D.C. Comic to be adapted for the big screen.
And the director admits that he just threw himself into the process, learning as he went along.
Speaking to Collider the filmmaker said: "You learn an awful lot, technically. I’d never done it, and the only way to learn it is to do it. You can’t read about it or be told about it. You have to do it.
"So, from a technical point of view, it’s a learning curve, but the same rules apply, in terms of action and in terms of the way you stage the scenes. To be honest, it’s very similar.
"We wanted the action to be tough and hard, and we didn’t want Green Lantern to get up, having been slung against a wall at 100 mph, and just shake his head and go back into the fight.
"He does get pushed around and beaten up a little bit, and really has to feel the pain, as it were. In a lot of respects, it was very similar to doing Bond or any other action film."
Green Lantern, which stars Ryan Reynolds, is the first film for Campbell since Edge of Darkness at the beginning of last year.
Green Lantern is out now.
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