The director of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, he told the details of how he shot the cameo of Gal Gadot, sharing a video from the set.
Shazam! Fury of the gods caused some doubts among viewers due to a cameo by Gal Gadot which many thought was made using technology deepfakes.
David F. Sandberg, director of the film, has now shared the details of how he shot the scene by answering questions from fans on Twitter.
The director of Shazam! Fury of the Gods shared a video from the set showing him filming the scene where Gal Gadot appears.
David F. Sandberg explained: “A certain cameo was filmed in England, but I couldn’t go due to some visa issues, so I directed remotely. It wasn’t a deepfake scene as some believe“.
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The Wonder Woman interpreter appears in one of the monitors while the filmmaker gives directions from a distance. The director had used stunt double Taylor Cahill on set just to figure out how to shoot the scene because Gal Gadot couldn’t go to Atlanta: “There is absolutely no deepfake technology. When you see Gal it’s 100% her“.
Sandberg added: “I was surprised how well the remote directing went, but when I spoke to Lotta Losten about it she said, ‘now don’t think about directing everything like this’. I would never do that though. I love being on set“. David reiterated: “It wasn’t difficult at all. But we also shot the scene with a stunt double, so we knew exactly what takes we needed. We had done some measurements to figure out how high the camera should be off the ground, lens information, etc“.