Following her dramatic withdrawal last week from her first Hollywood movie on the first day of shooting, director Lynne Ramsay will take some time to recover her reputation.
Playing Jane Eyre to Michael Fassbender's Rochester looms on the horizon and she's just finished shooting director Gus Van Sant's latest (and as yet untitled) film with Henry Hopper, Dennis's son, and Sissy Spacek's daughter, Schuyler Fisk.
Because of the extensive outdoor shooting, director Kim Manners hated directing the episode, commenting that "it couldn't be fucking worse".
I shot Director Patrick Nation and Associate Producer Matt McDermott a few questions, discussing the inherent difficulty in covering LA and the underground/mainstream dichotomy, among other things.
According to Van Peebles, during the first day of shooting, director of photography and head cameraman Bob Maxwell told him he could not mix two different shades of mechanical film lights, because he believed the results would not appear well on film.
Fassbender, Law and Cooper, of course, aren't the only names who have left "Jane Got A Gun" in the last two months: Just before the film was set to start shooting, director Lynne Ramsay quit the project.
At the onset, the mood is restrained, tense, and beautifully shot, director Ari Aster carefully setting up much in the first few scenes including the strained family dynamic, Ellen's career as a miniatures artist, and even the appearance of the sigil of Paimon, a deep-cut occult symbol that both Ellen and her mother wear around their necks at the funeral.
After the movie is shot, directors may cut good as well as bad dialogue.
The day of the shoot, the director arrived early.
