Edge of Tomorrow filmmaker Doug Liman explores the future of cinema tech with the VR series Invisible.

and Mrs. Smithto 2014sEdge of Tomorrow.

When the family patriarch dies, theres a power struggle where those invisibility powers come into play.

it’s possible for you to decide what portion of the room you will watch during any scene.

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(Note: Its best to watch the trailer below using a VR equipment.)

What got you into wanting to do something in that world?

When you watchBourne, youre in the car, youre in those countries with him.

Im a scripted filmmaker, storyteller, and I thought, Could this work in VR?

Could scripted storytelling work in VR?

Long before you get to set, you gotta change how you think about this.

You end up feeling like youre watching a bad recording of a play.

You felt like you were watching a video recording of a play.

You were not immersed at all in the emotion of what is happening.

Is that because of the lack of movement?

The difference between the tests and where we finally arrived is night and day.

I shoot and I watch what Im shooting, and I re-edit and I re-shoot.

Sometimes the movie doesnt work, then okay, I didnt figure that one out.

VR was that on steroids, where we would shoot and we would edit and go, Whats working?

And wed reevaluate almost in real-time.

We were going to use the basement, use the garage.

We were going to build other sets.

Youre not in Haiti.

Especially when looking up, because normally flats are eight-feet high.

Here, eight-feet wouldnt get you to the ceiling.

Look at all the crap thats on the ceiling.

I was looking up a lot during the show to see how 360 the VR actually was.

We literally shut down the production and reconfigured it a couple days in.

That was the first of many re-conceptions.

How did it work having different directors on each episode?

Obviously, the Ashland estate is being used a lot in each episode.

There were many directors, but theres no one episode that was shot by one director.

Its more of a team effort.

We had to put a different persons name on each one.

How do you do editing?

and When and how do you move the camera?

and What kinds of compositions are emotionally involving?

Cause at the end of the day, were storytellers.

You get to choose which characters youre following.

There are multiple scenes happening at the same time.

I think my actors are always used to sort of work-shopping it, and trying ideas out.

Yeah, I should mention that the actors are part of the film school too.

The technology was evolving while we were shooting.

I shot the first two days.

Eventually, I had to check my ego and be like, No, Ill go first.

You think youd be able to.

I remember when they started filming in 3D.

It took them a while to be able to have 3D monitors on-set.

Even theres this thing about wheres the crew and where are the actors?

When I started out making movies, you had to be that technically precise.

Now you just shoot whatever you want to shoot, and they track the shot in post-production.

Theres basically nothing they cant do.

A lot of great material came in, and I cant say no to something Im passionate about.

I just couldnt say no toInvisible.

If I really love something, Im just going to find a way to do it.

Do you think you might attempt to do something else using VR?