Trivia

> The film transposes the novel into the present day and is mostly live action, with only the landscape and creatures supplied by computer-generated graphics

Josh Says

I actually didn’t have to audition for this movie, which is really nice. A really nice change of pace, too, because I always had to audition for all my projects. But I read the script, I loved it, and I met with Eric [Brevig], the director, at Starbucks.

Eric is funny. A really nice guy, great director, so we really hit it off right away. And it just kind of spawned my relationship and it just started all off. He challenged me and I was surprised about that though, because coming out of a background of extensive special effects work, you’re always wondering though, is he going to care too much about the visual effects and not too much about the acting. He did and he was right on par with it and he gave me really great direction. He was definitely in my head, as far as my mindset of the character and he really helped me establish my backstory of the character during all the subtleties. He was really great.

I love sports and I love getting to do any kind of activity, so getting to do these stunts was awesome for me. I had a field day with it. It was so great and the producers were really cool about letting me get to do most of them, so they didn’t have to worry too much about the safety of it.