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On today’s Crew Call we talk with One Battle After Another producer Sara Murphy and editor Andy Jurgensen, some longtime Paul Thomas Anderson collaborators, basking disconnected nan film’s 3 Critics Choice Awards wins Sunday nighttime including for Best Picture.
There’s been a batch of sound complete One Battle After Another‘s reported $140 cardinal accumulation cost, its P&L, contempt nan movie being Anderson’s highest-grossing title astatine $205M-plus worldwide. Cynics wonderment whether nan car pursuit really needed to costs that much. But a reality cheque is needed for those: One Battle After Another was a star-driven task changeable successful California, a authorities successful dire request of keeping Hollywood accumulation astatine home. That privilege comes pinch a cost, arsenic opposed to shooting elsewhere. With nan pic inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, there was nary different spot to shoot, for arsenic Murphy says, “it’s a California story.”
Says Murphy astir nan fund that Warner Bros gave nan production, “We were not wasteful astir it.”
Murphy tells Crew Call, “I consciousness bully astir nan fund that we had successful bid to summation nan scope that we brought to this film, that’s what makes it consciousness large and entertaining and unpredictable and unique.”
“We had a bully accumulation plan, but it did require a batch of group successful California,” says nan producer, adding, “I dream that we proceed to grow nan taxation in installments present truthful that we tin support activity here.”
Anderson spent respective years scouting locations from Eureka to San Diego pinch his accumulation designer and location head to find places that organically infiltrated nan communicative of nan script.
Jurgensen shares pinch america really he stitched together a 2-hour and 40-minute modern action comedy, lengthy by each different movie standards, into a breathless, snappy, rapid-running movie. He besides expounds connected Anderson’s determination to sprout successful VistaVision and Super 35 arsenic good arsenic nan filmmaker’s cinematic references, i.e., The French Connection and Gillo Pontecorvo’s three-time Oscar-nominated The Battle of Algiers. The astir aggravated series to edit wasn’t nan car pursuit scenes but alternatively erstwhile Chase Infiniti’s Willa comes look to look pinch Sean Penn’s Col. Steven J. Lockjaw.
One Battle After Another is now streaming connected HBO Max.
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