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Click Movie Futuristic Cars
FUTURISTIC CARS
“All the cars used in Click are by General Motors,” according to Blake. “We have the minivan of the future, which belongs to Bill, Donna’s future husband. It’s more than just a car you can pack six people into. We built the van so that the doors move up and slide out. It’s even more comfortable to sit in than a living room because it’s oversized with big Tonka truck-like tires. The way we saw it, the future will be more organic, more smooth and curvy as opposed to sharp and hard.”
Blake worked closely with special effects supervisor John Hartigan in deciding how to cut up the new cars that were going to be made into futuristic autos. “We took a brand new minivan and made it look like a dune buggy in 72 hours,” Hartigan explains. “We went through the car with plasma cutters and saws and completely cut it up. We used the cases, the frames and motors to totally refabricate it into a car of the future.”
Another car, an ambulance, turned out looking like a fish, a carp or a catfish. “We conceived of it without headlights, just an opening in the front that looks like a mouth with lights that blaze out onto the highway,” says Blake. “Instead of having a light bar on top of the ambulance, the whole back end just sort of glows and pulses with this blue light. You definitely see it coming down the road.” Michael’s car in the film was a 2016 Cadillac called a Cadillac 12. The 12-cylinder auto is an actual Cadillac concept car (that GM says will never actually be sold) that can run on 12 cylinders or, when you get on the highway, goes down to four cylinders.
The 2016 period cars in the film are angular and conform with the sharp angles of Michael’s house. As the film moves farther into the future, everything gets softer, Blake explains. The softness in the car designs mirror the curves in Michael’s office and the lobby of his architectural firm. “I wanted to make sure that you related to Michael’s life throughout the movie and that even though he moves into the future and there were some crazy elements in the sets, it always remained somehow grounded in reality, so you didn’t lose your attachment to Michael and his emotional journey.”
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