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Shining Wizard
Posts: 59
This is from 3 years ago but thought people here might find it interesting:
Also, at 18:30 he talks about how he's working on a big studio picture that's a very old idea but written with ingenuity and freshness. I think we can guess which film that is.
Will Streckfus
Posts: 47
I watched about the first half and really enjoyed it. Sounds like he definitely paid his dues. He made things happen to get where he is today. I'll watch the second half soon.
Shining Wizard
Posts: 59
Yeah, I agree. He made his first short film back in 1988 (which is on YouTube btw) and he's been directing for a long time now, mostly in TV. Some people tend to dismiss him simply because he worked in TV but he did so out of choice - he said he never got any good film offers and the most interesting offers he got were for TV.
Sir Drew
Posts: 39
It's a really good interview. I'd recommend State of Play and Sex Traffic as both are really excellent works of television, although the latter's content is, potentially, a bit too disturbing for some viewers. But it's handled with a very delicate hand and intelligence.
In the Total Film interview he mentioned re-working the script with Cozad, increasing the romantic elements, deepening the characters, and on the Stop Ivory page, it said reworked some sequences to fit the landscapes he'd selected. It's nice to have a director who engages with the screenwriter to produce the best script possible.