Michelle Rodriguez is cracking up. The actress, who has starred in the whole lot from the indie drama "Girlfight" (1999) to the field-office-busting sci-fi epic "Avatar" (2009), is making an attempt to determine where her latest venture, "Battle: Los Angeles," ranks when it comes to scope and size on a scale starting from "Girlfight" to "Avatar." "OK," Rodriguez stated during a usually high-power, snigger-stuffed conversation.
"I would say, 'Avatar' being a ten, that 'Battle: Los Angeles' is an 8. That is simply because we only took a yr to shoot 'Battle: Los Angeles,' and 'Avatar,' you are speaking about 4-years' value of exhausting work."
"Nevertheless it's shut, man," she said. "It is close. 'Battle: Los Angeles' is pretty massive, too."
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and set to open nationwide on March eleven, "Battle: Los Angeles" depicts an epic showdown between man and alien, as extraterrestrials assault Earth in a bid to colonize the planet. Mankind's first and presumably last stand takes place in the City of Angels, as Sgt. Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) and his unit - among them Elena Santos (Rodriguez), William Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) and Kevin Harris (Ne-Yo) - have interaction the cruel invaders who're blasting every part in sight.
"If you're a gamer, this film is like a first-individual-shooter game," Rodriguez said. "It's like taking part in 'Trendy Warfare,' however you are a spectator. The best way it is shot, it is very documentary-model, however you additionally really feel, as a member of the audience, that you just're one of the characters and that you just're witnessing all of this craziness. It's superb what Jonathan Liebesman did, and Lukas (Ettlin), the cinematographer.
"The movie, I would say, is like 'Blackhawk Down' (2001) meets 'District 9' (2009), so far as the look goes. As far as the content material, it is that gamelike, fun, popcorn, edge-of-your-seat stuff that all of us kind of love to dive into at film theaters as a result of it will get us away from the actual world."
Laughing once more during a cellphone call from her Los Angeles residence, Rodriguez describes Santos as a unique spin on her powerful-gal roles in such films as "The Quick and the Furious" (2001), "Resident Evil" (2002), "Bloodrayne" (2005), "Lost" (2005-2010), "Avatar" and "Machete" (2010).
"Santos is a tech sergeant," Rodriguez said. "She works for the Air Force. She's basically a techie geek, a barely shy, extremely nervous Nelly, not one thing I've played before. It was kind of bizarre, however I do have that aspect to me. So I just flipped the web page and exaggerated that aspect of myself as a lot as possible for the role.
"However she's additionally pretty hardcore. She's full-on. She'll rage. When it comes time to battle, you will see her in the forefront."
Naturally everybody involved with "Battle: Los Angeles" hopes it is going to be this year's "Avatar." When James Cameron's sci-fi opus shot out of the blocks to grow to be the best-grossing film of all time, surpassing Cameron's previous film, "Titanic" (1997), most of Hollywood was surprised however not, apparently, Rodriguez.
"I advised those who I assumed perhaps it might do effectively," she recalled, "however I suppose I used to be trying to play it cool, as a result of I actually wasn't that shocked that it exploded. At the end of the day, I just had an intense feeling that it had a kind of common messages that was just going to hit.
"If something, you play it cool since you do not wish to seem hyped, and you do not wish to get ahead of yourself. However, actually, I was pretty darn confident that this man was going to make historical past with 'Avatar.' "
Cameron lately introduced plans to shoot "Avatar 2" and "Avatar three" back to back. Sadly, Rodriguez' butt-kicking helicopter pilot, Trudy Chacon, went down in a blaze of glory well earlier than the closing credits of "Avatar" rolled.
Bummer, proper?
"You already know what? I don't learn about that," stated the actress, who doesn't currently have a next challenge however is at work on a script of her own. "You simply by no means know with Jim and with the sci-fi world. He keeps saying, 'Nobody ever dies in sci-fi films,' however I do not know what he means by that. So it is all up in the air.
"But it surely's Hollywood, man," Rodriguez concluded cheerfully. "They will bring anybody again!"
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