A great review of 2B from “down under’s” Film Industry Bloggers website in the wake the film’s international premiere at the Fantastic Planet Film Festival in Sydney, Australia.
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2B director Richard Kroehling responded “this guy really understands the production process!” Well, the reviewer Brian Trenchard-Smith is a veteran director and apparently one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite filmmakers.
The first look at the behind the scenes and making of this thinking person’s science fiction film in which 2B stars James Remar and Jane Kim talk about the issues the film confronts.
In another scene Doctor Erich Einman leader of the Fleshist coalition, played by Ronal Guttman, in an interview with TV talk-show host Biko Johnson, played by Larry Pine, confronts the fundamental moral questions raised by the issue of transhumanism.
This first episode of the Making of 2B also gives a glimpse into the what went into bringing the images to the screen – the hard work of a small filmmaking army that makes magic come alive.
Producer and film festival maven Christina Kotlar from FilmFestivalReviews.com interviews 2B producer and co-screenwriter Eric Nadler on the science behind the movie and the panel “Re-designing The Future – the New Frontier” that preceded its premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 2nd 2009.
Moderated by Dr. James J. Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies and bioethicist at Trinity College, this revolutionary panel featured futurist Raymond Kurzweil, the author of four best selling novels, and an inventor responsible for many breakthroughs in biotechnological fields; Dr. Martine Rothblatt, lawyer, author and entrepreneur, responsible for several satellite technology companies and Executive Producer of 2B; and author Wendell Wallach, regarded as one of forefront thinkers in the field of Machine Ethics who, after co-authoring Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, is working on a new book examining what humans might become through emerging technologies.
The issues discussed in the panel provided much the foundation and inspiration for 2B