A brand new Marvel-inspired drone present has launched at Disneyland Paris. Titled “Avengers: Power The Night,” the night-time spectacle is about to happen above and on prime of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Walt Disney Studios simply earlier than closing every evening from now by to October.
Inspired by the park’s lately opened Avengers Campus, the eight-minute present options characters together with Black Panther, Captain America and Doctor Strange utilizing a mix of 500 drones, lights and fireworks, set to a hovering rating composed by Grammy winner Marco Marinangeli and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Disneyland Paris present director Arnaud Feredj spent six months conceiving and creating the show in partnership with France-based drone leisure firm Dronisos, who used modified Parrot drones to drag it off. The two groups had beforehand labored collectively on a drone present for Parc Disneyland titled D-Light, which runs earlier than the fireworks every evening (just like California’s set-up, Disneyland Paris has two parks, Parc Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios).
Avengers Power The Night, Disneyland Paris
Although Feredj declined to touch upon the price range, the scale of the staff offers some indication. “There [are] mild designer groups, movement designers, the drone designers, the SFX designers, then I labored with a present author, musical producers, and we’ve been to Abbey Road to file this glorious [performance with] greater than 70 musicians,” he informed Variety.
Read on for extra particulars from Feredj on how the night-time spectacle got here collectively.
What was the place to begin for “Avengers: Power of the Night”?
The place to begin was the Avengers Campus opening ceremony [last July]. Our leaders at Disneyland Paris [and] worldwide actually appreciated [it] and the visitors’ response was simply unbelievable. So I’ve been requested to develop a present primarily based on the appear and feel of the Avengers Campus. The first dialog we had [with Dronisos], I’ll bear in mind ceaselessly. I mentioned, “Guys, what you probably did [at Parc Disneyland] is superb…But what you probably did was already six months in the past, we’re gonna go additional.” And they have been like, “Okay, let’s!”
Everything is 3D. And we actually push the bounds. When we did the primary storyboards, I bear in mind the dialog, they have been like, “Okay, so it’s a 30-minute present?” We have been like, “No no no no no. This is an eight-minute present.” We’re going to do all of that in eight minutes. And they thought we have been fully loopy.
Avengers Power The Night, Disneyland Paris
Did Marvel Studios must approve all the things?
I work intently with the franchises and right here at Disneyland Paris, and in Disney, we work with numerous completely different franchises, so it’s been a tremendous partnership as a result of, in fact, we’re so respectful of their characters, of their franchise, that’s their IP and we need to show it the easiest way potential. And they have been very useful telling us what we might do with them and the way we might do it. And with the concepts that we had, all the things you’re going to see on this present is a brand new form of paintings from Marvel. It’s a never-done earlier than, by no means seen earlier than.
The projection you will note, it’s not from the films in any respect. It’s not from the comics, both, it’s one thing new. And after I got here up with the concept, they have been like, “Are we positive we need to present the Avengers that manner?” And really, it was fairly simple to persuade them as a result of they beloved the ideas. And after we talked concerning the drones, they usually have been like, “Yeah, however we don’t actually need to do a present simply to make it lovely.” And we’re like, “No, we’re simply going to display the facility of the Avengers.” And every drone part represents the powers of the Avengers. It exhibits their energy, it exhibits why they’re a real superhero.
What was the largest inventive problem?
To be trustworthy, I do know it’d sound a bit tacky, nevertheless it was solely enjoyable. To be truthful, it’s not a problem, it’s simply the way you convey the feelings of the films and the comics and your complete franchise into an eight-minute present. And how do you create one thing in order that it has a function and amazes folks, but additionally has an emotional arc.
Check out a teaser for “Avengers: Power of the Night” beneath:
