Aronofsky & Boyle Go Head to Head: 3 New Videos!
Fox Searchlight's posted three more videos of directors Boyle and Aronofsky discussing their films: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE WRESTLE, respectively.
See below! In the first video the two directors talks about script development. In the second, Danny talks about obtaining the rights to use the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in the movie. And in the third video Darren talks about what it was like to work with actors Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei in THE WRESTLER.
Enjoy! And stay tuned for even more videos in the pipeline...
Danny, on his preference to work on film projects one at a time instead of simultaneously:
"A script comes in, or you have an idea, and you take it to someone to work on it... I tend to do one thing at a time, which is not clever - but it does surprise writers because they are used to being part of a pile of three or four things, waiting for someone. So I said to Simon, [Beaufoy, screenwriter of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE] 'Well, let's go - we gotta go, now, to India, and make it!' And he was like, 'The guy's just saying that and he'll let me down in six months..."
Darren, on Marisa's role as a stripper in THE WRESTLER:
"Any time a stripper shows up in an independent film script all the red flags go up because it could really be cliché. But the connections between the wrestler -- the parallels were just so interesting, I couldn't escape it."
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