Director Neil Burger discusses his latest film, 'Inheritance,' an international espionage action flick shot entirely on iPhones. He explains the unique guerrilla filmmaking style and how it allowed them to capture authentic scenes in various locations around the world without drawing attention.
Summary No single genre defines filmmaker Neil Burger. From helming high-concept sci-fi mind-twisters like Limitless with Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, to down-to-earth tearjerkers like The Upside with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. His previous outing was The Marsh King’s Daughter, a vengeance thriller starring Daisy Ridley. Now he’s back with something on an entirely different plane– Inheritance, an international espionage action flick shot entirely from the hip.
NEIL BURGER: Thank you. It was fun, and it was a risk. It was supposed to be a risk. The idea was to go and see the world, the new normal after COVID in a way — it's not a COVID movie, but it was done shortly after COVID — and see, “What's the world like?” That was kind of the inception of the story. But if you go with a film crew, you disrupt the world. The world ends up looking at you. You don't get to look at the world.
BURGER: What we did was we did have contingencies for everything in case they went wrong. However, the movie has a kind of stolen aesthetic. We shot on airplanes in flight, we shot in those passport controls, and the way we shot those scenes, like in the passport, were kind of from the hip. So, that then determined how the rest of the movie was going to be shot.
How Neil Burger Managed to Pull Off Filming and Dialogue on a Plane “We brought them over into our camp.” It's crazy. Let's talk about the transatlantic flight and recording dialogue in business class. You're not doing ADR, so how nervous are you when you're filming that you're actually getting the dialogue on the iPhone and that it's not going to be lost?BURGER: Actually, they had their own recorders on them. They were just recording their sound, and it was good.
How does it work with the legal releases? For example, let's go back to the plane. You had all these people boarding the plane in business class and you sort of see them, and also on the streets. Do you need to get a release from these people? What's the legal stuff like when making a film like this?
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