Today at TIFF22, months before its Christmas Day theatrical opening, Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle came to show off the trailer of his Hollywood period opus, ‘Babylon.’ It will drop tomorrow. The pic is still in post
We want to do away with pre-conceptions of the era,” he said about the 1920s set pic.back at CinemaCon in April. That clip laying out the jazz-era, party hardy Hollywood period pic. Margot Robbie is seen as a tortured star, and demaned her close-up int hat first footage, intoning “You don’t become a star, you either are one or you ain’t.” The action took place on a swords and sandals epic.
Chazelle spoke with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey about his career; “the physicality of music” in his films, starting with debut pic “That film didn’t exactly open doors in Hollywood,” said Chazelle. He next wrote a feature length script of but the producers suggested he a carve a 15-minute short of it. Chazelle thought that was a set-back in his evolution as a filmmaker. “But life finds a better path,” he said looking back. an homage to the MGM technicolor, CinemaScope musicals.
“People in Hollywood don’t like to use their imagination, they like to know what they’re getting,” says Chazelle about selling the feature length of The trick to making the risky original musical which turned into a multi-Oscar winning tentpole for Lionsgate, “it’s finding unity on a thing that could go a separate route.”
“You’re choreographing a ballet, recording a soundtrack and making a movie,” said the director about :What I love about musicals, is that when they work, is that you don’t feel that work,” he said, “Hopefully you don’t smell the department meetings.” There were a lot of up-hill battles comprised of rehearsals and no-rehearsals and adapting in situations when things didn’t work .Guy and Madeline
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