Camera Experts Designed a New Kind of 360° Rig for Jupiter Ascending
Lovely though it is in person, Chicago can seem like a grim, grey place on film. So when the Wachowskis decided to film key moments of their new movie Jupiter Ascending there, they didn't just wait for the most beautiful light—they built a whole new type of camera to capture it.
Really, that shouldn't surprise anyone. The Wachowskis have given us some of the most memorable and compelling visuals of the past two decades in their films—from the bullet-time shots of the Matrix to the textured cityscapes of Cloud Atlas. Their latest film, the alien-aristocracy-versus-earthly-underdogs space opera Jupiter Ascending, is the kind of movie you'd expect to be filled with revolutionary, whiz-bang VFX. Less expected? That it would rely so much on scenes filmed in meatspace—with a camera unlike anything that's been built before.
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