Director Garth Davis gives us the low-down on his underseen sci-fi drama, Foe - streaming now on Prime Video.
This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 46.
Garth Davis asserts that he made his third movie – following on from Lion (2016) and Mary Magdalene (2018) – primarily because, as he puts it: “I want to go and watch it at the cinema.”
We’ve been talking about the old cliché that ‘it’s hard to get intelligent sci-fi films through the filmmaking development process’ in the current era – and by the time we’ve finished dissecting this topic, it’s very much clear it’s a cliché for a reason. In the five years since Davis’s last film, notwithstanding a global pandemic, there have been projects that nearly came to fruition. It almost feels like a minor miracle that he managed to make, well, what he managed to make.
“A lot of the material films that are being made these days are literally like a fast food industry,” he sighs. Not a downbeat sigh, more a realistic one. “It’s kind of feeding… and look, that all has a place, but I guess I’m yearning for movies that make me think, that challenge me – and, I guess, contribute in both an entertaining way and engage me emotionally. Or maybe question something. Just open my mind or my soul in some shape or form.”
Director Joachim Rønning and legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer talk their Daisy Ridley underdog sports movie - Young Woman And The Sea.
This article first appeared in Film Stories issue #51
A veteran of Hollywood filmmaking, producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s name tends to be associated with such expensive blockbusters as The Rock, Armageddon or the Pirates Of The Caribbean [...]
What happened to the ear-worm film scores that pervaded popular culture in the'70s, 80s and '90s? Daniel Hallett looks into where modern scores are going wrong.
Chrissy's ill-fated skinny-dip in Jaws, the Star Wars opening crawl, Marty McFly finally making it back to the future, Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler first laying eyes on a dinosaur. [...]
Digital de-ageing is now a common franchise filmmaking tool - but where does it all end? Mark Harrison has some thoughts...
This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 42 in May 2023.
In 1981’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones memorably told Marion Ravenwood: “It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” More than 40 [...]
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