As if the cast wasn’t starry enough, Ross has even managed to bring some glitz to his supporting crew, with the surprise appointment of Steven Soderbergh as second-unit director. It’s unusual to see an Oscar-winning director on second-unit duties, but according to Soderbergh, he was only to happy to do a favour for a friend.
“The story is really simple,” Soderbergh told Moviefone. “Back in April, Gary — who is a close friend of mine I’ve exchanged creative favours with non-stop over the last 15 years — when he got the boards for the shoot in April called me and said, ‘Hey, first week of August, I got these two days of second unit. Is there any way you can come down and help me out? Because I’d rather have you do it than hire somebody who I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Actually, that works out. We’ll just be finishing Contagion and prepping Magic Mike and, yeah, it could be fun.’”
“Cut to two months later, and I show up to do this thing. Of course the whole design of it and what’s fun about it, for me, is my job is to come in and duplicate exactly what Gary and [cinematographer] Tom Stern are doing. To mimic as closely as I can to their aesthetic. If I’ve done my job properly, you won’t be able to tell what I did because it’s supposed to cut seamlessly into what they’re doing. That’s why he asked me to come down, because he knew that I would be rigorous about matching what they were doing.”
What next? Scorsese making the tea? Spielberg cleaning the toilets? Gary Ross is clearly a persuasive man…
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stephensocks
Nov 1st 2011, 16:12
I was hoping that the films would be split up - maybe randomly cutting through books two and three. Unlike Harry Potter, each book isn't a year of school, the whole affair is less than two years and pretty much non-stop (barring all those intermittent periods in which Katniss on the mend and holed up in various places). I can't think of where they would cut up the books but I always thought the end of the first book was a wee bit lacklustre. If I hadn't read the books back-to-back and not had to wait over a year for book two, I'd have been a little p********f, so hopefully the end of the first film will place somewhere else. I am definitely in the 99% that disliked the trailer as well. On top of not much going on, I got a sickly Twilight vibe (no, not just because there's trees). It felt far too tame. And that's why I don't like the PG13 rating either. Sure the books are aimed at young adults (12+ I guess) but part of the atrocity of the story and message is a lot of its grim events and I reckon that has to be in the films as well and not just alluded to. Though, with the BBFC's recent ratings and some of the things that people get away with in 12A's and the such, this worry may be moot anyway. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of faith in this, I just wish that trailer had been better and Ross wasn't trying to put out fires everywhere by smoothing over his 'PG13' statements. May the odds ever be in this film's favour.
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stephensocks
Nov 1st 2011, 16:33
Ugh. Sorry for looking like I'm spamming the place up.. I didn't realize the comment would be squashed into one big messy paragraph..
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JohnNorris
Nov 4th 2011, 12:03
The third book is called "Mockingjay" not "Mockingbird" Please correct.
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