On February 26, 2020, the director Kerry Fukunaga stood in front of a wall full of more than 100 index cards with scene titles such as "Bond out of control" written on it.
He is away from submitting to MGM "No time to die" _strong has only a few days to die in 1span _strongspan4span_strong The 25th work of is the last time Daniel Craig starred in 007, which is also a major breakthrough for Fukunaga. He is the first American to direct a Bond movie.
"I try not to think about box office pressure." He said, "Although I am obviously very worried about the epidemic now." What kind of impact the movie will have and how it will exceed the last US$881 million global box office forecast, Bond producer Barbara Broccoli downplayed people’s concerns.
But Fukunaga cannot escape the feeling that history is about to repeat itself.In 2009, his first feature film, Spanish-language crime drama "Anonymous" , because swine flu caused Mexico's theaters to shut down, causing a sharp drop in the box office.
"Obviously, When people’s lives are threatened, you can’t take it lightly _strong21span_strongsp_span4p Nineteen months have passed in a blink of an eye, and Fukuyong has returned to London, still waiting for the most anticipated Bond film ever to be released in multiple theaters around the world, including the United States on October 8. During this period, Fuyong was surprisingly busy.
After the delivery of "No time to die", he helped remotely re-edit Mark Wahlberg 's TV series "Joe _strong21pan _strong21span _span _strong21span _strong184 Bell" Directed the propaganda activities of the Paris Mineral Water Company ( Perrier ) in Greece, and rewritten an eight-part limited series "Soldiers of the Great War" ,The play is based on Mark Helplin's 1991 novel.
He also just finished the Apple TV+ "Brothers" sequel "Air Combat Heroes" 70 days filming by and Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks served as producer.
But the 44-year-old filmmaker knows that his career and the real stakes of the entire industry are all on "span4span _strong 21".
In 2020, seven days after his predictive remarks at Goldcrest, "No Time to Die" became the first Hollywood blockbuster to change its release date due to the epidemic, creating a since its appearance on TV An era of cinema uncertainty that has never been seen since .
In the following months, one movie after another, including Marvel’s " black widow_span_span_strong_span _span_strong_span_brothers1 _span_span_strong1) span4span's entire lineup in 2021,All are scheduled for simultaneous streaming media release.
Amazon announced the acquisition of MGM in May, which intensified tensions between theater purists and VOD adopters, prompting speculation that "No Time to Die" is also destined to be a hybrid Way to issue.
"Everyone at Gaomei is very good at calling me and let me know the situation, from (Board Chairman) Kevin Ulrich to (Film Director) Mike De Luca." He said, "They want me to know that, anyway, this has no effect on "No time to die" ."
premiered in London on September 28 After the screening, this film co-starred by Rami Marek, Rena Saidou and Ranash Lynch will continue to follow the traditional , which will only be performed in theaters. route. If "No Time to Die" can be successful during the epidemic, the cinema industry will breathe a sigh of relief.
As an experienced and experienced director, Fukunaga was used to the pressure of film production before signing with Bond, and his reputation as a genius was also supported by film works.Including "Anonymous" which shined at the Sundance Film Festival , the 2011 adaptation of " Jane Eyre " , his Emmy works including HBO strong18span 14span strong18span "True Detective" and Netflix "Beast of Boundless" .
This cruel work describing African child soldiers was also written, produced and filmed by him. But Bond is unique, and there is nothing in Fuyong's background that can prepare him for it.
When they hired him, Wilson said that he and Broccoli were after his previous script and his American citizenship. Wilson said: "Of course he is easy to do, and is very international ."
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"He is a very global person. We watched his films instead of resumes. I think these films are so diverse and show great ways of dealing with actors, storytelling and narratives. The way he visualizes things is obvious in all his movies. He has all the qualities we want to see in a director ."
_span1 Fuyong said that this kind of global vision originated from his childhood in a mixed-race worker family in Auckland. His father, who sold generators, was a third-generation Japanese-American who was born in a detention camp during the Second World War in .
"My father never talked about it, nor did my grandparents talk about it." He said, "I think it shaped me, that kind of multi-generational struggle. From ( My father’s) The psychological trauma inherited from my childhood determines who I am , I think that the detention process is incredibly unstable for the entire Japanese Americans."
Fuyong’s mother is a dental hygienist and is a Swedish-American.Makes him "somewhat unrecognizable" whether he is white or Asian. "As the'alternative' in the checkbox, I have been silently proud of ." Nevertheless, he experienced ridicule at school.
"It is difficult to escape with the name Fukunaga. I have a lot of'Fuck-anaga'." He added, "I am called a Communist. This did not cause me too much trouble."
His parents divorced, and Fukunaga settled in a "compound" family. "My brother, the same father, different mothers. My younger brother, the same mother, different fathers. My little sister is adopted," he said.
but he suffers from dyslexia and undiagnosed hyperactivity . "When I was a kid, I ran around, daydreamed and couldn't concentrate," he explained.
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in a "very free and progressive environment" , he is going to study in , a history at the University of California Santa Cruz in France, and span4 Studying political science in a one-year overseas project.
After school, he embarked on the path of becoming a professional snowboarder, but he felt that he would never reach this goal. He said: "It's impossible, I'm fine, I'm very competitive. But I will never become a professional player.
Although he didn’t want to admit it, he also did some graduate models in Los Angeles. His vague race and deadly bone structure attracted people’s attention.
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7p "My girlfriend was a model at the time. I was selected for this ad and then did a few small things, just to make some extra money. I always wanted to be a film producer . "He said.
He was accepted by New York University Film School ,Use student loans for funding. One of his short films won the Student Academy Award in 2005.
This led to the birth of "Anonymous," a Mexican co-produced film about a girl trying to immigrate to the United States and a boy who fell into a gang life, edited by him self-guide. He won the Best Director Award for at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, which enabled him to enter the Hollywood field of vision .
His second work is "Jane Eyre", which was adapted in 2011, by Mia Washikovska , Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell Starring with Judy Dench , shows his extensiveness .
In 2015, just as Netflix sought to expand its original film division to Adam Sandler beyond comedies, the streaming media giant acquired 12 million US dollars Fukunaga’s "Beasts without Borders," starring Idris Elba (for a finished movie that was not screened at the festival,This is a huge deal).
At that time, Netflix was still very new to the game "for you to decide" and was distrusted by Oscars, so this movie was basically ignored during the awards season.
Elba said: "I think from the audience's point of view, (if it is released today) the reaction will be very similar. But considering the current social atmosphere , " "Beasts without Borders" will definitely have a real impact on awards and honors, not only because of the atmosphere, but also because of Kerry's great movies.
At that moment, like "Beasts without Borders" "Movies like this are ignored for many reasons. But in this climate, you can’t ignore it."
Although Fukunaga’s works were mainly welcomed by the art theater crowd at the time, He entered the mainstream through "True Detective", and experienced his first real Hollywood drama , and had a famous collaboration with writer Nick Pizzolato.
He said: "As an independent film made into TV,This play is presented in the way we promote it in the town. The screenwriter and director are a team. During the course of this project, Nick has been positioning himself as my boss, and I said, ‘but you are not my boss, we are partners ’.
In the post-production stage, people like (former program director) Michael Lombard gave Nick more power. This is frustrating because I think the partnership of is not fair .
As for their creative differences, Fukunaga said: “Nick is a very good writer, but I do think he needs to be changed. It became too focused on writing, and did not pay enough attention to the motivation of the story . My struggle with him is to add some air to some of these long dialogue scenes. We have differences in tone and taste. "
Pizzolato said, "Of course, you will have discussions and disagreements, but the important thing is, everyone is moving towards the best we have without self-consciousness. Good implementation effort .”
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He said: "I shot at Warner for four or five years, and then before we were ready to start production, it was transferred to New Line Corporation. I think New Line's view of what they want is very different from my view of what I want.
I want to make a TV series with horror elements, like "The Shining". They want to do something more (pure horror), such as Annabel (from the "Call of Souls" movie). This is essentially a kind of disconnect .
(He won the screenplay award. Anders Muschetti's "Recall" was a big success in 2017.It won $702 million in box office worldwide and launched a sequel in 2019. )
Fukunaga insisted that there was no malice between the two, and pointed out that he would continue to work with Lin Dan and Roy Lee, the producers of "Return to the Clown". He added: "If I were a difficult director, they wouldn't necessarily want to work with me."
Fukunaga will Martin Campbell ’s "span 4span " and Peter R. Hunt’s " Queen's Secret Envoy " are listed as his two favorite Bond movies.
He said that he felt " has great freedom to reinterpret this role , but I think there are a lot of . The best thing about his performance is how primitive, cruel, and gloomy he is. I prefer this kind of Bond to the one-faced Bond.”
Craig is used to Bond’s three-ring circus,He said that Fuyong managed it easily.
The actor said: "For this series of films, it is very important for the directors to make their mark on the characters and stories. , And Kerry really brought his own unique perspective. With a master like him at the helm, it is obvious to all in the final result."
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to this film is the lover who travels around the world. Brought into Hollywood's post #MeToo reality. After all, "No Time to Die" was developed in 2016. After Harvey Weinstein stepped down due to predatory behavior, the entire industry began to enter a period of self-reflection.
Although Craig’s work emphasizes the quality of the drink more than the number of women, Bond’s history also has random misogyny and worse.
At the suggestion of Fukuyong, Phoebe Waller-Bridge was invited to complete the draft he wrote with Neil Purvis and Robert Wade in 1999. " 007's dark crisis " participated in every Bond movie afterwards.
People’s opinion is that " London life " was used to make _strong more sober 1.
"I think this is what people expect, A woman writes a very strong female character , but this is what Barbara already wants." He insisted.
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This is about a white man The story of acting as a spy in this world, but you must be willing to move closer and do some work to make the female character of not just a decoration ."
in " Life and Death Speed" Lynch, who plays the No. 00 agent Nomi, thinks Fuyong has succeeded. Ra and Daniel had a lot of discussions, discussing how to give female characters fairness, how to make them accountable to themselves, how to give them a moment of solitude, and let the audience know who they are. It is really important to give female characters the ability to be unique .
I think he kept this in mind throughout the shooting. I don’t think Nomi, as a young black woman, always stands behind white people. For me, this is work. For Kerry, this is a very wise decision. "
Brocoli said: "I think people are changing their attitude , some people are protesting, some people are screaming, they have accepted this fact. Thank goodness.
The role of Bond was written in 1952,The first movie "Dr. No" was released in 1962. He has a long history, and the past history is very different from the description of him now. "
At the same time, with so many false starts, it is a challenge for to adapt his mind to reality is really time to die.
Fuyong said: "It is difficult to predict how I will feel. I did not anticipate the emotional stress of the last day of filming, nor did I expect that this would be the last day of Daniel playing Bond. I felt so sad.
I think when a movie is released, there will be a lot of emotions. You will happy for its appearance, satisfied for its end , maybe there is another kind of potential sadness, because this experience has been completed. ”
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