By Callum Schwarz

1. By Callum Schwarz

2. Information About Paul • Director – Greg Mottola • Producer – Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner • Written by – Simon Pegg and Nick Frost • Starring - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogan • Music by – David Arnold • Cinematography – Lawrence Sher • Edited by – Chris Dickens • Distributed by – Universal Studios • Release dates – 14 February 2011 (United Kingdom) and 18 March 2011 (United States) • Running time – 104 minutes for the rated and 110 for the un-rated • Budget - $40 Million • Box Office income - $97,984,015 • Awards – National Movie award for best comedy

3. Over View • Paul is a 2011 British-American Science Fiction road comedy film Directly by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Peggand Nick Frost. Seth Rogan provides the voice of the title character (Paul). The film contains numerous reference to other science fiction films, especially those of Steven Speilberg, as well as to general science fiction fandom. • As of June 2013, the film has received generally positive reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 71% approval rating with an average rating of 6.3/10 based on 196 reviews

4. Cast • Simon Pegg as Graeme willy • Nick Frost as Clive Gollings • Seth Rogan as Paul • Jason Bateman as Agent Zoil • Kristen Wiig as Ruth Buggs • Bill Hader as Agent Haggered • Blythe Danner as Tara Walton • Jo Lo Truglio as Agent O’Reilly • John Carrol Lynch as Mosses Bugs • Jane Lynch as Pat Stevens • Jeffery Tamboras Adam • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)#Cast

5. How Paul was made • Working from a scan of an early Spectral Motion prototype foam latex build of Paul’s head, Double Negative embarked on a digital model of the alien. Later, a macquette was also provided, scanned and modeled, with various modifications made to the CG model throughout production. • Artists modeled mostly in Maya and ZBrush, with some work carried out in XSI. A base mesh from the macquette was added to with displacement details in ZBrush, based on texture reference from hi-res scans. “Senior modeler Markus Schmidt would sit with me and I would come up with a range of movement for the face,” says Beer. “I helped model some of the initial range of face shapes, and then he would take it to the next level with the rest of the shapes and supplementary shapes to really keep everything looking naturalistic as it moved.” • Rigging happened in parallel through Maya and some proprietary DNeg tools. “There’s a muscle system we employed as well,” adds Beer, “but it wasn’t like a perfect anatomy for Paul for every muscle twitching under the skin. It was really bespoke to the shots. We would pick and choose where we wanted stuff to move and how we wanted it to move. The muscle system and a skin sliding solution were both proprietary.” • Initially, artists textured Paul almost too ‘realistically’, as Couzens describes: “We made him fairly blotchy with liver-spots and skin blemishes but came back on this when Greg suggested we should treat him like any actor would be – so we put him through make-up to cover up such blemishes and make him more appealing.” http://www.fxguide.com/featured/paul-double-negative’s-alien-adventure/

6. The Plot (Part 1) • Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings are two British Comic Book enthusiasts and best friends who have traveled to the United States to attend the annual San Diego Comic-Con International and to take a road trip in a rented RV to visit sites of major extraterrestrial importance. When stopping for something to eat they meet two rednecks and when Graeme laughs with them they start tormenting him. They leave and accidentally dent the rednecks' truck. At night, along the highway, they notice lights following them. The pair thinks the lights are from the rednecks' dented truck, but it's actually a car that passes them and then crashes. They investigate the damaged car, and discover an alien named Paul, who is in desperate need of help. Although shocked by the appearance of Paul, Graeme agrees to give Paul a ride, but Clive (who fainted after seeing Paul) is displeased about not being consulted about the idea. Later, United states Secret service Agent Zoil arrives at the site of the crashed car and informs his mysterious female superior, called the "Big Guy", over the radio that he is closing in on Paul. She then recruits two inept rookie agents, Haggard and O'Reilly, to aid in his mission, without informing them about the nature of their target • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)#Plot120

7. The Plot (Part 2) • Graeme, Clive and Paul pull into an RV Park run by Ruth Buggs a Christian fundametalistwho is blind in one eye, and her over-bearing father, Moses. The trio bond around their camp grill and Paul reveals that since he was captured by the government, he had been advising them in all manner of scientific and sociological achievements. Having divulged everything that he knows, Paul has outlived his usefulness as a receptacle of knowledge, thus his captors intended to surgically remove Paul's brain and harvest his stem cells, in an attempt to harness his physical abilities (Paul had previously demonstrated both invisibility and healing powers). With the help from a friend inside Area 51, Paul an SOS to his home planet and was escaping to rendezvous with them. The next morning, Paul intentionally reveals himself to Ruth during a theological discussion which turns into an argument, and the trio are forced to kidnap her and make a hasty escape. Moses sees Paul while the alien is trying to collect Clive's passport (that he left with Ruth after parking), and, believing him to be a demon, grabs his Shotgun and chases after them in his truck. Paul shatters Ruth's faith by sharing his knowledge of the universe via a telepathic link; at first horrified, Ruth suddenly becomes eager to sin, which her father had raised her to fear doing. She does not trust Paul at first, until he heals her eye with his physical abilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)#Plot

8. The Plot (Part 3) • When the group stops at a bar, Ruth tries to make a phone call to her dad, but Zoil answers, as part of the operation to capture Paul. At the end of the phone call, she runs into the rednecks. She evades them, and informs Graeme and Clive they need to leave, but the rednecks run into the men again, and a fight starts. Moses is also at the bar, and he sees Ruth, but notices her eye. As he is so stunned, he fails to react and loses track of the trio as they dash for the RV. The rednecks chase them down, but Paul appears outside the RV. The two rednecks faint and they drive away. Later that night, Paul, Graeme, Ruth and Clive sit down together near an RV park. Ruth falls asleep but goes back to the RV. In the morning, Graeme and Clive find it difficult to hide Paul from a busy town. Paul goes into a comic book store with Clive as Graeme goes to pick up Ruth. Paul has to pose as a statue there while they wait.Meanwhile, Ruth was asked questions by Agent Zoil, but lied and said she knew nothing of a one-eyed girl or two British "nerds". She and Graeme then drive into town to pick up Clive and Paul, but Paul had been exposed after he was caught by O'Reilly. Clive and Paul jump into the RV and narrowly escape the town; Haggard and O'Reilly report to Zoil. The rookies are asked to return to the base, but they want to catch the alien themselves. Moses is also in town, still trying to steal Ruth back, so he chases the RV. Clive and Graeme stop to buy fireworks at a shop but end up stealing them after Clive realizes they have no more Money. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)#Plot

9. The Plot (Part 4) • Paul eventually reveals his intention to return to Tara Walton, a girl whose dog e crashed his ship on in 1947 and who subsequently saved his life, who is now an old woman. The dog's name was Paul, and the alien picked it up as a nickname. After spending her life being ridiculed for what she said she saw, Tara is grateful to see that Paul exists. She turns her gas cooker on to make tea, but is interrupted by Haggard and O'Reilly on one side of the house, and Zoil on the other. As the motley crew escapes and drives off with Paul, O'Reilly shoots at them, and the gas from the stove ignites, destroying Tara's house and seemingly killing O'Reilly. A winded Zoil attempts to follow, but Haggard takes off first, shooting at Moses, running him off the road and catching up to the RV. However, due to an error in judgement, Haggard accidentally drives off a cliff and is killed, leaving Zoil as the last remaining agent in pursuit. He reassures the Big Guy that he will have Paul within an hour, but she declares herself tired of waiting, and informs Zoil that she has ordered a military response.When Paul, Graeme, Clive, Ruth and Tara arrive at Devils Tower National monument they set off fireworks to use as a signal and wait. Eventually, eerie orange lights show up over the surrounding trees, and everyone believes that it's Paul's rescue ship. However, it's an army helicopter, with the Big Guy on board. As she and three troops move to shoot Paul, Zoil arrives, and it's revealed that he was Paul's inside contact who helped him to escape, that they're friends, and that his first name is LorenzoZoil disarms the men, but is shot in the shoulder by the Big Guy. When the Big Guy threatens Ruth, Tara punches her out but Moses appears with his shotgun and mortally wounds Graeme while aiming at Paul. Paul heals him and collapses, briefly appearing to be dead before he quickly recovers; Moses proclaims this to be a miracle from God. The Big Guy regains consciousness, but is immediately crushed to death by the arriving alien ship. Paul begins to depart and informs Tara that she is coming with him to live a better life. He bids farewell to his friends, hoping to meet them again one day. • Two years later, Graeme, Clive, Ruth, and O'Reilly (who is revealed to have survived the explosion), are shown again at the Comic-Con convention, where Graeme and Clive are promoting Paul, their new hit novel. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)#Plot

10. Sequel? • Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have admitted that the chances of them making a Paul sequel are slim • The duo revealed that they had come up with a follow-up idea for their alien road movie - tentatively titled Pauls - but probably wouldn't be able to find time to make it. • Pegg told Digital Spy: "We were heading to Area 51 to do some promo for the film in the US and being back on the very road that we took on our research trip in 2007, we started to have ideas for this sequel. • "We came up with what we both thought was quite a fun idea. If it came up, [we would make it], the trouble is if we started writing it now it wouldn't be out for three years." • Pegg admitted that the amount of time it would take to digitally create other aliens to accompany Seth Rogen's Paul is the main stumbling block for a potential sequel. • "We'd have to write it, shoot it, there's nine months of post-production to create Paul," he said. "If there's more than one Paul it'd take longer. Until the technology gets cheaper and quicker we'll probably do something else.” • http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a324547/simon-pegg-nick-frost-rule-out-paul-sequel.html

11. FAQ’s How Was the character “Paul” Created?Paul was Created By Using a computer, also known as CGI (Computer Generated Information). The image of an Alien was Animated then overlaid over the the film and then the voice of actor Seth Rogan was added in at the end. By the end of the making process how much money was actually spend on the film? $40 Million was the budget for the film, they earned around about $97 Million on Box office.