Amazon Studios brought three striking iterations of true grit to Deadline’s Contenders New York with a look at The Aeronauts, The Report and Honey Boy that kicked off Saturday’s event. …
, said the set was kept below freezing and actors plunged their hands in ice water to simulate the chill of early hot-air ballooning.
The grander conceptual challenge, what attracted Harper to the film, is realizing a dream. He called it an ode to “innovators who have moved history, a drive for knowledge, and what we can overcome if we put our minds to it.”, an investigator for the Senate Intelligence Committee labors in a basement bunker for five year to expose the CIA’s illegal and failed enhanced interrogation techniques launched post 9-11.
“The story that’s revealed in the report is incredibly horrifying and bizarre. Beyond that the story of Daniel Jones is incredibly compelling to me. This one guy sits in a windowless room for seven years and pieces together the puzzle,” Burns said, referring to the investigator played by Adam Driver.
Actor Tim Blake Nelson plays a physician’s assistant who left a black site and reveals to Jones the depth of the atrocities. “It was a composite character of CIA operatives who were participating but burdened by that” and ultimately spoke up, he said., about the raid on Osama bin Laden’ hideout. That film, from 2012, was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. They are friends, Burns said, but “I had the benefit of the report and those guys didn’t.
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