M. Night Shyamalan’s next thriller, Old, was one of the first films to be shot after the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, but that’s not why the filmmaker described filming in the Dominican Republic as “ridiculous” in a live Instagram chat with EW on Monday. the day after Old’s first teaser debuted in the Super Bowl.
“It was so precarious to make the film at the time, and I did it because this casting, I didn’t need to lose anyone, I didn’t need to lose a person, so I did,” said Sixth Sense director, whose film stars Gael García Bernal and Thomasin McKenzie, among others. “It was hard to shoot at the time because it was hurricane season in the Caribbean. In fact, our sets were destroyed by a hurricane, and we rebuilt them. , and we were very fortunate at the time they stayed awake. “
Shyamalan also spoke about the inspiration for Old, a graphic novel through Pierre Oscar Lévy and artist Frederik Peeters named Sandcastle, about an organization of other people temporarily aging on a beach.
“In this graphic novel it was discovered that I earned my daughters,” she said. “I read it, and the premise was so powerful, of the other people who went to this beach and their joy at the way down that day on the beachArray. . . I think it was very scary and moving, and the concepts began to emerge, and I discovered the owner and the user who wrote it. It was a lovely and moving thing that came here from my daughters, this I tell about aging very, very fast. “
Old stars Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Ken Leung, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abbey Lee, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Embeth Davidtz, Eliza Scanlen, Emun Elliott and Kathleen Chalfant.
The film is scheduled for July 23. See the full discussion with Shyamalan above.
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