An Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy inspired movie? :P Jokes aside, consider my interest thoroughly piqued, especially with Alex Garland writing and directing it.
Dredd has a very strange production history. Basically Garland wrote the movie but also had such a specific vision for it that he also developed the slow-mo sequences and wrote the movie around...
Basically Garland wrote the movie but also had such a specific vision for it that he also developed the slow-mo sequences and wrote the movie around that. Then he was always on set with ideas to the point that Urban would look to him for advice. Pete Travis only seemed to handle filming but got locked out of the editing process but Garland was able to edit the movie together. Then they put out a joint statement together saying Travis would get the credit and the two had agreed to an unusual partnership before the movie's filming began.
It's one of the strangest production histories I've seen for a movie.
He wrote the script and he wanted to direct it but the studio backing didn't want someone as inexperience as him. I use studio loosely there. So they got a director-for-hire, who previously helmed...
He wrote the script and he wanted to direct it but the studio backing didn't want someone as inexperience as him. I use studio loosely there. So they got a director-for-hire, who previously helmed Vantage Point, but he stepped back and let Garland take control of everything.
That's the main gist of what I've read about what happened.
I wasn't there, and we'll never exactly know what happened who did what on set. But as someone that has seen Vantage Point, the credited director did not shoot one frame of that movie. That is...
I wasn't there, and we'll never exactly know what happened who did what on set. But as someone that has seen Vantage Point, the credited director did not shoot one frame of that movie. That is pure Garland.
An Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy inspired movie? :P
Jokes aside, consider my interest thoroughly piqued, especially with Alex Garland writing and directing it.
Why and how is Alex Garland the uncredited director of one of my favorite action movies of all time?
Dredd has a very strange production history.
Basically Garland wrote the movie but also had such a specific vision for it that he also developed the slow-mo sequences and wrote the movie around that. Then he was always on set with ideas to the point that Urban would look to him for advice. Pete Travis only seemed to handle filming but got locked out of the editing process but Garland was able to edit the movie together. Then they put out a joint statement together saying Travis would get the credit and the two had agreed to an unusual partnership before the movie's filming began.
It's one of the strangest production histories I've seen for a movie.
He wrote the script and he wanted to direct it but the studio backing didn't want someone as inexperience as him. I use studio loosely there. So they got a director-for-hire, who previously helmed Vantage Point, but he stepped back and let Garland take control of everything.
That's the main gist of what I've read about what happened.
Rephrasing: so the credited director didn't actually direct at all?
I wasn't there, and we'll never exactly know what happened who did what on set. But as someone that has seen Vantage Point, the credited director did not shoot one frame of that movie. That is pure Garland.
Well point to Garland then. Ex Machina is to me a masterpiece.
Now I understand why it was way better than it had any right to be.