The release of INTERSTELLAR is on the horizon! The movie was screened for critics last week, and reviews have started to show up. Bills role was under wraps for a long time, but now has been revealed: he is voicing the robot TARS (Terrain Assistance Robotic Support), which he also operated on set. You can spot it in the trailers in the center of the spaceships console and as a silvery walking slab following Matthew McConaughey on the surface of an alien planet. Here is a collection of mentions from reviews put together by Atlantic Monthly: TARS, the Fun Robot Character Its only appeared in the latest trailer for the most brief moment, but the reviews have been all over the android character TARS, voiced by Bill Irwin. If anyone was wondering whether Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, or Casey Affleck was going to end up as the breakout favorite from the films supporting cast, it looks like theyve all been upstaged by the new R2D2. - Atlantic Monthly A pair of obelisk-droids known as CASE and TARS, whose resemblance to the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey is a long way from unintentional. Bill Irwin, the actor who gives his voice to TARS – much the more loquacious of the two – operated these machines on set as a hydraulic puppeteer, but they can also perform more acrobatic, CGI-assisted feats of rapid rotation: as surplus military machines, they’re reminders of human conflict from a planet that’s just about given up the fight. - Tim Robey, The Telegraph TARS, a prolonged mechanical slab of data-processing and sarcasm, is the movie’s greatest innovation. He’s ridiculous and inventive, the wry Bill Irwin lending his voice for the automated companion. TARS instantly joins Wilson from Cast Away as one of film’s great inanimate objects. - Patches The other big win for nerds is TARS, the movies awesome robots. Prepare to see TARS and his buddy CASE listed in all future best movie robots ever lists. They take up space like Forbidden Planets Robbie, are in the system like 2001: A Space Odysseys HAL, and they look like nothing youve ever seen. At rest, they are gray-ish chrome slabs. They walk like Jacobs Ladder toys. But when the other-worldly excrement hits the fan (and theres one humdinger of an action set-piece), they can contort themselves into useful geometric shapes and crack jokes at the same time. (Theres a little green light that appears when theyre kidding, just so everyone is on the same page.) - Jordan Hoffman, Popular Mechanics (posted by Elizabeth)
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:55:31 +0000
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