Love, Death & Robots
Love , Death + RobotsVolume 4marks the return of Netflix ’s hit anthology series . The Modern batch of 10 ( mostly ) liven up shorts adapts stories by science fiction authors including Bruce Sterling , John Scalzi , and Siobhan Carroll , lend them to life through a range of style supervise by show Godhead Tim Miller and supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson . This season , Love , Death + Robotsexplores 2D fine art , recall to worlds established in earlier seasons , and die hot - action for the second time in its story .
TheLove , Death + Robots Volume 4trailer foreground even more to fare with the season include an show by the Red Hot Chili Peppers , and the plaster bandage and creatives behind the show explained that and more at a ruby carpeting event in Los Angeles . In attending were Miller , Nelson , and other creatives like actors Sumalee Montano and Emily O’Brien and director Emily Dean . The new bulk hit Netflix on May 15 .
ScreenRant ’s Joe Deckelmeier attended theLove , Death + Robots Volume 4red carpet and talk with primal cast and creatives behind the show . Read on for key takeaways from select interview , and check out out the video forScreenRant ’s full red carpet compilation . For moreLove , Death + Robots - related play , check outScreenRant’sDebunking AIepisode with Tim Miller .
Sumalee Montano Calls “400 Boys” A “Fantastic, Visionary Cyberpunk Story”
Montano Returns After Playing A Role In Love, Death + Robots Volume 1
Marc Laidlaw ’s little narration “ 400 Boys ” was adapted into what would become one ofLove , Death + Robots Volume 4 ’s flagship episodes starring John Boyega and Sumalee Montano . “When I read this one , it now grabbed [ me],”Montano pronounce about the piece,“That jaw - knock off instant toward the oddment – crazy . ”She go on to say,“I am just so glad that I get to lend my kernel to this fantastic visionary cyber-terrorist story . ”
“ Being in this theater with everybody watch that here and now … I literally opine it ’s hold up to be one of the highlights of my entire career . ”
Montano also play up her experience collaborating with supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson , saying,“I put myself in Jennifer ’s hands . She is such an awesome director . She ’s so serious at just minimalistic but impactful directing . And of course I come to the table with some ideas , but then she ’ll just sedately say something and I ’ll listen to it , take it in , and then you play . The coaction is everything that an artist wants . ”
How Emily O’Brien’s Personal Life Led To Her Emotional “Spider Rose” Performance
O’Brien Lost Her Pet Cat Just Before The Shoot
“ It ’s just so bittersweet,”actor Emily O’Brien said about the character she plays in theLove , Death + Robots book 4episode “ Spider Rose ” . O’Brien described her character , a grieving Mechanist , as“this cleaning woman who has suffered for so long , and [ is ] going through this horrifying , dingy period of her life where she has n’t felt dear in so long . ”Thankfully,“this little creature comes into her living and play her a new view on what life could be , and she learns to eff again . She learns to smile and express joy again . That really resonate with me . ”
O’Brien ’s performance in “ Spider Rose ” also went beyond the bounds of phonation acting , seeing her suited up for full carrying into action capture . “I’m in a motion seizure suit,”she said , but as far as how that affected her performance , the only major considerations were that“there ’s a match of logistics where you have the head teacher toilet and so you ca n’t get as snug , or you ’ve sire mics so you do n’t have to project as loudly . ”Otherwise , she said,“I read it like it was a show or a turn . I treated it the same way . ”
The actor also share a very unfortunate intellect why she was able to put extra emotion into her performance . “I was work with this little chick , like this stuffed animal,”O’Brien said,“and it was just a coincidence that , right before the shoot , my little three - legged cat named Valentine had passed away in a horrific , frightening , unexpected way . Jennifer really aid me tap into that , and once she attend that I was definitely uncommitted , she pushed it even farther , which I ’m grateful for , because I ’m skip we got a really genuine public presentation out of that . ”
Emily Dean Explains Her “Gothic Horror Comedy” Short “For He Can Creep”
She Found Herself Leaning Into “The Absurdity Of The Situation”
Siobhan Carroll ’s bookFor He Can Creepinspired one ofLove , Death + Robots Volume 4 ’s stories , which was brought to the projection screen with the same name by Emily Dean . Dean described the short as“a gothic revulsion funniness place in 18th - century England in an insane asylum . ”Character - wise , she continued,“it ’s a showdown between a Arabian tea and a the Tempter for the soul of a poet . ”
The wild mind was realized with“tune - shaded CG … made to bet like it ’s etched or comic book style,”said Dean , who admit that it was“really tricky”to complete the unparalleled quality of the story within a little runtime . “I just wanted to have fun with it , and I leaned into the repugnance and the gothic - cape of the story,”she state when demand how she accomplished the task,“and the drollery just issue forth through because of the silliness of the situation . ”
Love , Death & Robots season 4 officially has a release date , and the show ’s paying back could n’t be more exciting after Prime Video ’s hit anthology serial publication .
Tim Miller Talks The Future Of Love, Death + Robots
Plus, Into The Deadpool-Verse?
honey , Death + Robotscreator Tim Miller walk the crimson carpet in solemnization of the 4th loudness – for which he direct two entryway – and hype up the incredible potential of the series ’ future . He begin by revealing that a number of beloved directors have expressed interest in organize shorts:“I was just at Guillermo [ del Toro ’s ] house … and Guillermo was like , ‘ I need to do an episode . ’ I [ also ] did a affair in Mexico and Louis Leterrier , Fede Álvarez , and Jon Watts were there , and they ’re like , ‘ We want to do episodes . ’ ”
“ There are a lot of people who bang this show because the format is so free and you may do whatever you want . ’
Miller also revealed thatLove , Death + Robots Volume 4 ’s surprising Red Hot Chili Peppers euphony picture , directed by none other than David Fincher , was n’t the first musical episode to be attempted . “We had one that we ’ve been trying to do for a while that just has n’t come together,”Miller read , let out that“we had a Jack Black one in the Heavy Metal pitch . It was one of his Tenacious D Sung dynasty called “ Death Star ” , and that was in the original Heavy Metal pitch . I ’d still like to do it . ”
In terms of succeeding stories , Miller said he had his oculus on a number of inadequate news report including William Gibson ’s original Johnny Mnemonic story–“because the original poor story was so much better than the book,”Miller said – as well as“another little story that [ Gibson ] wrote call ‘ Dogfight ’ that ’s in Burning Chrome . I ’m a cyberpunk nerd , so those are two I ’d care to do . ”
Miller read a roundabout way away fromLove , Death + Robotsto discuss whether he ’d wish to collaborate once again with Ryan Reynolds on aDeadpoolmovie , especially as Reynolds has expressed interest in a Deadpool and X - Men team - up film . “The X - military man are what got me into funny books,”Miller said,“so yes , I would have a go at it to do an ten - Men movie . ”
Miller has even had one in development before:“X - Men 143 . It was a Kitty Pryde story set on Christmas Eve . It ’s Home Alone meets Alien . It was f***ing great . Unfortunately , at Fox you could have done it , but now they have to do a big ten - Men movie before you could get to smaller story . ”Still , Miller added,“Maybe Ryan and I should do an animated Deadpool , like [ a ] Spider - Verse version of that . ”
Even if Miller does take on a story about the Merc with a Mouth , do n’t be afraid of him leavingLove , Death + Robotsbehind . He has no plans to stop . “I will never get tired of this,”said Miller .
“ I can do this show until I f***ing die . ”
dear , Death + RobotsVolume 4hits Netflix on May 15 . For more from the red carpeting , check out the full TV atScreenRant .
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