Backstreet Boys at the SPARE Sci-Fi topics

2001: Audis Space. Star Wars. Star Trek. You see. Code hostility. Akira. The fifth element. Between the stars. Superman. Flash Gordon. Matrix. This looks like a list of the largest science fiction films in all ages, but in reality, it is a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspiration behind New famous stay for boys in Back Street In the field in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Last July, one of the older boy’s teams ever celebrated twenty years of their iconic album, Millenniumin Technically advanced placeWith two months of the offers sold that have given a ton of tanna and attention. As a result, two other months of offers were added, and IO9 spoke to Baz Halpin, CEO and founder of Silent House. Silent House was one of many important companies to create the show, and Halpin explained how science fiction was effective in creating what some have called, such as director Joseph Khan, “the best concert I have ever seen.”

“that it. Two of the most famous videos in the group-Monster “everyone (backstreet)” and sci-fi heavy “larger than life”-He said on x. “You think I’m joking. I’m not Star Wars In ’77 it turned into a concert. You have to see it to believe in it. ” We have seen that It is right. Even if you do not like immortal pop music in Backstreet Boys, the show takes you on an epic journey across the galaxy, full of some deliberate invaders and some unintended invaders to iconic science fiction films in the past and present.

Halpin is a prolific product for live events. It has produced Usher’s 2024 Super Bowl, the opening of the last Joe Biden, Tudum’s Netflix, Taylor Swift Tour’s tour Film, just to name a few. Regarding concert tours, he helped produce and visualize shows by Taylor Swift, Al Wardi, Britney Spears, Ochar, Harry Styles, and more. Recently, he was working in establishing eagles in the field and was first contacted about Backstreet Boys in November 2024. Soon after, he and his team reached a specific proposed list and a general concept, which they presented to the band.

“It was” in the millennium “, 20 years of album (and) it is essential for many people. “Remember what was the case. We can remember music videos. We can remember how we looked. We can remember the brand for it, if I wanted. So I knew that I wanted to be a kind of future science fiction, but I knew that we (too) had to have all the stories. We had to have all romance.”

To create this balance, Halpin decided to do something that SPARE concerts had not been done before: Tell one complete firm story. He said, “I thought,” well, wonderful, we will do space opera. “” We will do everything in space and … to try to connect everything visually from beginning to end. But what can we use related to it? Millennium? This could be our devices to link this thing together without feeling like a movie and still lives in a place to feel like a pop concert? Thus I reached the idea of ​​the space ship. Space ship is Millennium This is what takes us through something. So it was a great swing to put all our eggs in this solid basket from a journey from start to finish, but I think this is what makes the best experience in the field of ball, when you can get your cake and eat it as well. “

This is what it is. With the start of the width, a giant spaceship with the word “millennium” on its back flies to the place and then explodes in space. While science fiction lovers will see a large spacecraft with the word “millennium” and think about it Falcon Millennium in Star WarsHalbin came to this perception a little later. “I am the total Star Wars Halbin said, “But honestly or not Millennium and Falcon Millennium (I was associated with) when you bothered me in an attempt to design the ship with our visual counterparts (in Blink Inc.). We needed something calmly felt. Almost an expansion of a range … but also felt flexible, and Falcon MillenniumFor me, this was always. It seems that it should not be graceful, but when it moved, it was so, so I think this is still completely aware. “

This combination of direct and indirect inspiration continued from song to song. “Get another friend,” for example, the eighth show song, you see children in a very new place with floating transfers above, tall buildings in fog, and small vehicles that lead to neon lights. It is very similar Blade or Akira, With a hint You seeAnd all were part of the concept, to some extent. “Therefore You see “The sign was actually something we were trying to get away from. At first, they were actually bicycles with wheels.” I said, “I don’t want it. If anything, they should be more like fast bikes. So I went on this whole concept diving on different types of speed bicycles. I do not want any path. I didn’t want any Lightcycle or anything like that. However, as you know, in this world, they will get the neon scheme. They will get a type of lighting. It is difficult You see … It was aesthetically unique, it is difficult to have a LED chart on anything, and someone who does not say, “It is You see” ”

In “The Call”, the penultimate song of the show, Green Lines of Code works up and down for the entire field. He shouts MatrixEspecially since they both share the decisive element in the phone call. However, it was about provoking this feeling, and not copying it. Halbin said: “In the Eagles, for” false eyes “, we did this moment, as the lyrics of the song written in handwriting fell vertically like the chandelier, and then they were spinning it.” “It is just an amazing effect, so I knew long text tapes of what was really working well.” Using real phone numbers related to different ways to Backstreet Boys, the numbers are moved like them MatrixBut then, build and create shapes to withdraw what Halpin refers to as “ball tricks”.

“Create a box, create a tunnel, create a cone, create a curve,” said Halbin. “We wanted blocs that would allow us to do domain and photograph phone numbers, (but) is difficult to get away from that Matrix indication. “

“Resignation from Games,” sees one of the oldest Backstreet Boys, the group in a series of endless block arrangements, which is built to form a larger structure. Basically, it looks like a giant game TreisHalpin thought was completely aware. “I was very aware Treis Consciously trying to find all the ways that are no TreisHe said, “Firstly, we are building a house. The lines do not disappear. There are things inside. Nothing is the same forms.”

However, the Treis Another famous science fiction inspiration was not completely appropriate. Halbin said: “We have long struggled with that song,” Halbin said. “I knew that I wanted this song to be something surreal, colored, crazy. If there is anything, it would be more like The fifth element Luke Bisson Vepe. But the reason we ended with the blocs is that I wanted a ball trick where something fell above us … and thus building the wall, where it is slow, it is continuous, it happens all the way. We get a ball trick that can appear from Infinity, and then we have able to fall above us. This is the way it is up to be different blocks in shapes instead of flat horizontal lines, just to give us some interesting. “

Ideas have not always been fruitful. Halbin explained that since the effects on movies are very good these days, the masses are exploited to what is real and what they do not expect a certain level of quality. So, if their effects are unable to match at least what you see in the theater, they went in another direction. “We tried to do a black hole like Between the stars, We could not make it look good like Between the starsHe said: “So we abandoned it.”

“In the Millennium” was opened at SPARE on July 11, so all this was placed and more together for less than a year. This is partly due to the work of Halpin and his team in Silent House, which provided the concept, the creative trend, design and production, as well as Blink Inc. , Which was the main content design studio; SPHERE Studios, which was responsible for making sure that all this idea and technology met in the place; Of course, the background street productions. It was a lot of work, but for Halpin, the moment he realized that all of this had gathered a few weeks before the opening.

He said: “Various members (in Back Street Boys) came at different times and they had different levels of participation, but Nick (Carter) came to the field that appears with his daughter and sat behind me directly.” “Just hearing his reaction, and his vision for the first time, this verification of health was not only suitable for this and they are in that, but they are also in the vaginal, although they know what will happen.”

After the first successful and multiplying show, what will happen after that for Backstreet Boys “INTO The Millennium Tour” in the field is more offers. Tickets were recently sold for 14 additional offer from December 2025 to February 2026. Who knows? This may not be the end. After all, everyone knows that Backstreeet always returns (well).

Whatever happens, though, Halpin is only happy because his inspiration that he benefited from, which used this amazing place, helped Backstreeet Boys celebrate 20 years of their iconic album. He said: “I am pleased for them, I think they deserve every moment of them. I think people may have reduced their strength when they were announced as a group, and I think people now see that they are the ideal band for the field.”

Information and tickets in December, Janier and February “in the millennium” dates It can be found here. I know I will return to the second rotation. Will I see you there?

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