Ilm Gets Trippy With Scarlett Johansson's Vfx In Luc Besson's 'lucy'

Industrial Light & Magic embraced something completely different with Luc Besson's heady sci-fi actioner, "Lucy," in which Scarlett Johansson plays a badass and brainy super-gal who taps her full cerebral capacity in blazing a new evolutionary trail for humanity. Thus, to help visualize how Lucy colonizes her brain after a bizarre drug overdose, ILM became more design-centric and abstract than usual for Besson's pulpy version of "2001: A Space Odyssey." "It was really fun because it wasn't a thousand shots of robots or things we typically do," admits ILM VFX supervisor Richard Bluff, a former digital matte artist ("The Avengers," "Avatar").