"The story itself is set in a pocket of history where the Vikings came to North America and had a conflict with the American Indians," says visual effects supervisor Randy Goux, whose prior work includes Serenity and TV's Firefly. But none of them really deconstructed the genre, and did something really grungy, dirty and subversive." So Nipsel considered the subjects that, for the most part, haven't been touched, and concluded: "Vikings was it." Then I wanted to make a pirate movie, and Pirates of the Caribbean happened. "I always wanted to make a gladiator movie, then Gladiator happened. "What I'm interested in is taking a proven genre and deconstructing it," he tells IGN FilmForce on the Vancouver set. And that's exactly what Nipsel says he wants to deliver. Making any film these days is a big risk, but when your flick is set 1,000 years before the purchase of New York and has almost no dialogue, then, yeah. Director Marcus Nipesl, the fella who brought us 2003's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is taking a big chance with Pathfinder.
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