Post by roverpup on Sept 18, 2017 16:26:49 GMT
Really interesting article, Thanks sgev!
A couple of highlights for me...
I hope all of these projects come to fruition! I think it would be absolutely grand to see BC and Sophie collaborate as producers with SunnyMarch on Megan Hunter's novel. And Rogue Male is one that really excites me too (because of the connection with the original film with PO'T). But all of them sound like such great properties to do!
On him being a producer for the first time...
What an exciting time for BC! I love that he is able now to really start branching out and being able to mold projects from the inception. I hope someday he will also take a dip in the writing or directing pool. I think he would be great at that as well!
On tweaking the original material...
I was a bit surprised that he hadn't read the book earlier (seeing how he was a fan of that McEwan's works) but it obviously spoke to him when he did get around to reading it. I do hope the "purists" (that always seem to crop up whenever novels get translated into film) allow for the re-contextualisation and accept it as part of the filmic artistic process.
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A couple of highlights for me...
Hunter is joining her husband as a producer on one of SunnyMarch’s new projects, a film adaptation of Megan Hunter’s eco-apocalyptic debut novel The End We Start From (“a stunning tale of motherhood”, according to Cumberbatch). Other movies on his production slate are an adaptation of Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time, Geoffrey Household’s 1939 adventure classic, Rogue Male, and Rio, which will co-star Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal, while TV dramas in pre-production include screen versions of Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose novels.
I hope all of these projects come to fruition! I think it would be absolutely grand to see BC and Sophie collaborate as producers with SunnyMarch on Megan Hunter's novel. And Rogue Male is one that really excites me too (because of the connection with the original film with PO'T). But all of them sound like such great properties to do!
On him being a producer for the first time...
“It’s different because you’re there at the inception of the idea and just thinking who would be right to direct it… I’ve never been at that stage of things before”, he says. “I really, really enjoyed it. But it’s not without its challenges, especially watching the work sooner than you should as an actor, in a very raw state to then give feedback about what you feel as a producer. That was tricky.”
On tweaking the original material...
The Child in Time was one McEwan novel that evaded his omnivorous consumption, however. “I hadn’t read it”, says Cumberbatch. “And there will be expectations from those who know the novel even though it was released in the late 80s. We’ve re-contextualised it and set it in the present day [because] it’s partly a critique of the Thatcherite era.”
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