/Movie’s BJ Colangelo attended an early screening of “We Have a Ghost” after which Christopher Landon participated in a Q&A. And it appears that evidently filming the scenes with Ernest have been loads trickier than you may think, primarily as a result of Landon’s insistence on having David Harbour bodily current in each considered one of them. 

Because the “Freaky” director mentioned through the Q&A, “I did not need the actors appearing to nothing, or David in some type of loopy mo-cap go well with. I wished him there and in his wardrobe, hairpiece and all.” That meant the crew needed to make some particular lodging, which slowed down manufacturing considerably. To be particular, each scene with Harbour’s ghost needed to be shot 4 separate occasions. As Landon defined:

“We might shoot all of the actors collectively within the scene, within the shot, after which we would pull David out and simply shoot whoever else was within the shot with him. Then we would pull them out, put David again in, and shoot simply him, pull him out, shoot a plate. 4 occasions. Each time. So it simply felt such as you have been making 4 motion pictures as an alternative of 1.”

Unsurprisingly, this time-consuming strategy prolonged manufacturing time, as Landon watched his capacious capturing schedule disappear, very like Ernest himself, earlier than his eyes. “We had a extremely good schedule at the beginning of pre-production,” he mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I’ve so many days!’ After which it simply vanished.”