George Miller sat down with THR in Cannes after the 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' premiere to discuss how Idris Elba's suggestions shifted the schedule and trying to cast Tilda Swinton in 'Furiosa.'
He offers to grant three wishes in exchange for his freedom, only to spark a debate about wish-making while the genie details three stories from past entanglements. Miller adapted the story with Augusta Gore from, a collection of short stories published by author A. S. Byatt, text he first encountered in the 1990s, a fact that may have added to his fantasy state.
“I’m not sure if I had woken up and found myself in the middle of the night inside the theater watching the film,” Miller tolddays after the premiere inside a suite at the Majestic Hotel in Cannes in reference to his jet-lagged state last week. Fully refreshed, Miller opened up about how the project came together, his close collaborations with his stars and the latest onAt the film’s after-party, I heard you describe the independently financed project as a “little, big film.
It wasn’t a studio film. It’s a film that had to be independently financed. The first person who saw the script once we had the cast was Mike De Luca. He had just come to MGM, and straightaway he said, “Let’s do it.” FilmNation Entertainment sold the rest of the world, and they quickly got good response, so it was definitely the best way to do it. It’s not the scale of something a studio would do necessarily.
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