The 2014 film Noah (starring Russell Crowe) seemed to contain a number of very unusual animals.
What was the armadillo/canine hybrid thing?
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5I think this question would be a better fit on Movies&TV.SE, since it is about a movie, but not a work of Speculative Fiction.– SQBNov 30, 2014 at 19:34
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3@SQB - If you relate it to the source material, especially the graphic novel, it's pretty clear that Noah (2014) is a work of science fiction. The director notes that it contains "fantastical" elements.– ValorumNov 30, 2014 at 19:59
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4Also, the existing consensus on meta is that Noah (2014) is on topic.– ValorumNov 30, 2014 at 20:59
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3Related meta discussion.– MöozDec 1, 2014 at 0:53
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I apologise for my earlier comment about the work being off-topic. Not having seen Noah, I assumed it to be about 'just' the biblical story. And you know what they say about assumptions.– SQBDec 1, 2014 at 7:11
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They were, erm, "tweaked" according to the film's director Darren Aronofsky. His intent seems to have been to avoid the "cliché" of using real, recognisable animals.
In an interview for the Digital Guild of America he described them thusly;
We had to create an entire animal kingdom. All the animals in the movie are slightly tweaked; I didn’t want the clichéd polar bear, elephant, and lion walking onto the Ark; I didn’t want the shot of a giraffe’s head looking over the rail. I wanted to respect the storyline and think what would have been involved if it all really happened.
“In collaboration with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)], we basically went through the animal kingdom and pinpointed the body types we wanted: some pachyderms, some rodents, reptiles, and the bird kingdom. We chose the species and they were brought to life with different furs and colors. We didn’t want anything fully recognizable but not completely absurd either.
"There's all these creatures that you're not expecting to see ... we were able to create our own animal kingdom"
In the draft script and graphic novel, the animal was another fictional creature referred to as a "single-horned bison" whose horn the men were attempting to cut off. Although the animal has obviously changed, much of the dialogue has remained.
answered Nov 30, 2014 at 19:27
