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Tom Holland says he couldn’t get the script for the next Spider-Man movie while everyone else at the studio had already read it. “I was shooting ‘The Odyssey’ with Christopher Nolan.” “I kept blowing up the studio saying, ‘Guys, can I get the Spider-Man script?’” “They kept telling me,... ‘It’s not ready. We’ll send it to you when it’s ready.’” Then his brother Paddy called him. “Bro… the script is so good.” “I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’” “He said, ‘I’ve just been at the studio. Everyone’s read the script. Everyone loves it.’” “And I’d been told there wasn’t even a script at this point.” Tom says once he finally read it, he understood why everyone was so excited. “We had amazing writers and they did such a good job.” “They’ve really found a way to make the film about Peter Parker.” “The stakes have never been higher.” “The mystery of who the villain is brings a whole new flavor to the film.” “I’m so proud of everyone that’s involved.”show more

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Tom Holland says Spider-Man: Brand New Day was delayed so he could star in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. "I read the script. I was blown away." Then he realized there was a problem. Both movies were scheduled to start on the same day. "We had to literally move Spider-Man. The start date was the same." Holland says he called the studio and credits Sony executive Tom Rothman for making it happen. "Without Tom, I wouldn't have been able to make this movie." According to Holland, Sony made the rare decision to push back Spider-Man: Brand New Day so he could join Nolan's film. "He literally moved Spider-Man so that I could be a part of this film."

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Zendaya reveals how she freaked out when Tom Holland told her about starring in The Odyssey. "He had the script, and I may have taken a little peek. I had to know. He had a Christopher Nolan script in my house, what am I gonna do? So I looked" "Then he went off to his meeting, and when he came home, I was like, 'Okay! Tell me all about it! How was it? What was it like?' You know what I mean? I was so ready, so excited" "And he goes, 'Read this again.' And I was like, 'What? Why? We just read it last night.' He was like, 'Read it again, but with Athena in mind.' And I was like, 'Yo, stop it right there'" "I freaked out. I was so grateful. And the fact that he got to be the one to tell me, it was so special"

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Quentin Tarantino says Bruce Willis originally wanted to play Vincent or Jules in Pulp Fiction before he convinced him to take the role of Butch. Tom Segura : “How was casting? Bruce Willis is so great in the film. Was it an immediate yes from him?” Quentin Tarantino : “We weren’t even going out to Bruce Willis.” “At the time, he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world.” Tom Segura : “When you first watch the film, it’s almost shocking. You’re like, ‘Bruce Willis is in this?’” Quentin Tarantino: “Absolutely.” “One day he told me, ‘I read your script. I want to play Vincent.’” “I told him I already had John Travolta lined up for Vincent.” “He said, ‘Okay, then what if I play Jules?’” “He even suggested making Jules a white guy.” “I told him I’d think about it.” “I thought about it all night and realized I just couldn’t do it.” “The character was written as a Black guy.” “When I called him back, he completely understood.” “But I told him, ‘I still think you should be in this movie.’” “I asked him to read the script again with Butch in mind.” “I told him I saw Butch as a classic 1950s leading man.” “I said, ‘Forget Vincent. Forget Jules. Just think about Butch.’” “He agreed to read it again.” Quentin Tarantino: “The next day I called him.” “He said, ‘Quentin, I’m in.’”

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Robert explains his comment about being the only person who asked to read the script for The Odyssey: "It was supposed to be more of a humble thing. [...] [Chris Nolan] was like, 'You wanna read it? Everyone else just said yes'. I was like, 'NO, it's fine! I've changed my mind!"

Robert explains his comment about being the only person who asked to read the script for The Odyssey: "It was supposed to be more of a humble thing. [...] [Chris Nolan] was like, 'You wanna read it? Everyone else just said yes'. I was like, 'NO, it's fine! I've changed my mind!"

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On this day, 61 years ago, Sidney J. Furie's "The Ipcress File" (1965) was released in the U.K. On the first day of shooting, director Sidney J. Furie gathered the cast and said, "This is what I think of the script." He then set it on fire. Michael Caine on the incident: "The driver picked me up for the first day of shooting and asked me if I was an actor in the movie, and if I had read Len Deighton’s book. When I told him I was the lead in it, he told me, ‘The whole thing is a load of rubbish, isn’t it?’ Then, when I arrived on set, Sidney had everyone gather around. He asked if anyone had any matches, and I smoked at that time, so I handed mine over. Sidney took the script, lit the match, looked at everyone and said, ‘Here’s what I think of this script’ and set the match to it. That was his copy of the script, so he asked if anyone had another copy to consult after he had burned his own, so I gave him mine. But it was a gesture, an illustration. It was a hell of a way to be christened into being the lead in a film." Sidney J. Furie on the reason for the movie's peculiar style: "I was very depressed always when we started shooting, thinking that it was going to be really lousy and I didn’t know what to do, so I told myself I would come up with a style of shooting that is different. I put shoulders across the screen, I shot up at things, I shot down, just to make it different, to give it ambiance. It was done out of insecurity, with a little cognac spiked in my morning coffee to give me courage." ("Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films", Daniel Kremer, 2015)

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Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” script was the exact same length as the finished movie Matt Damon: “When he gave me the script to Oppenheimer, I couldn’t read it that night.” “He asked, ‘What time are you gonna start reading it tomorrow morning?’” “I said, ‘9 a.m.’” “‘How fast do you read?’” “‘Exactly at the pace the movie’s gonna play.’” “He said, ‘I’ll be here at noon.’” “At 11:59, I was turning the last page.” “At noon, he walked in.” “That movie played exactly the same length as the read.” “Nothing changed.” “He really thinks. He agonizes over how he’s gonna tell a story.” “Then he casts, and then he does it in stages.” “It’s incredible.”

Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” script was the exact same length as the finished movie Matt Damon: “When he gave me the script to Oppenheimer, I couldn’t read it that night.” “He asked, ‘What time are you gonna start reading it tomorrow morning?’” “I said, ‘9 a.m.’” “‘How fast do you read?’” “‘Exactly at the pace the movie’s gonna play.’” “He said, ‘I’ll be here at noon.’” “At 11:59, I was turning the last page.” “At noon, he walked in.” “That movie played exactly the same length as the read.” “Nothing changed.” “He really thinks. He agonizes over how he’s gonna tell a story.” “Then he casts, and then he does it in stages.” “It’s incredible.”

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Robert Pattinson on being the only actor who asked to read the script for Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ instead of instantly saying yes “I sound like such a nob literally saying this. It was supposed to be more of a humble thing. I also thought Chris was so funny with his reaction just saying ‘you want to read it? Everyone else has said yes.’” 😂 (via Access Hollywood)

Robert Pattinson on being the only actor who asked to read the script for Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ instead of instantly saying yes “I sound like such a nob literally saying this. It was supposed to be more of a humble thing. I also thought Chris was so funny with his reaction just saying ‘you want to read it? Everyone else has said yes.’” 😂 (via Access Hollywood)

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Zendaya says she never expected to be part of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. At first, she thought it was just Tom Holland. "Tom got the call." "And my heart was just so full." She says she was genuinely excited for him. "He's the best, and he deserves this so much." As a longtime Christopher Nolan fan, she never imagined she'd even get the chance. "I got the Christopher Nolan script in my house." "What am I going to do?" "I was just so excited." Zendaya says she wasn't expecting anything for herself. "We already won." "And I didn't even put myself in that equation at all." Then she landed the role anyway.

Zendaya says she never expected to be part of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. At first, she thought it was just Tom Holland. "Tom got the call." "And my heart was just so full." She says she was genuinely excited for him. "He's the best, and he deserves this so much." As a longtime Christopher Nolan fan, she never imagined she'd even get the chance. "I got the Christopher Nolan script in my house." "What am I going to do?" "I was just so excited." Zendaya says she wasn't expecting anything for herself. "We already won." "And I didn't even put myself in that equation at all." Then she landed the role anyway.

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VIDEO | Actor Saif Ali Khan says producer Shah Rukh Khan gave the team of "Kartavya" a free hand to make the film the way they wanted. In fact, Shah Rukh was the one who called Saif to inform about the script that they were developing at Red Chillies. "He said, ‘There’s a lovely script, and I would like you to hear it, and do it’. Then I listened to it and met the director. Once the film was complete, he said, ‘It has come out as a lovely movie’. He was very happy,” Saif said. “Sometimes the presence (of Shah Rukh) can be overwhelming on sets and I think he understands that. He gave us room to make the film on our own. I felt I was working for his production with his kind of sensibility,” the actor added. Directed by Pulkit of "Bhakshak" fame, the film stars Rasika Dugal opposite Saif and the actor said he is a huge fan of the "Mirzapur" star. #ShahRukhKhan

VIDEO | Actor Saif Ali Khan says producer Shah Rukh Khan gave the team of "Kartavya" a free hand to make the film the way they wanted. In fact, Shah Rukh was the one who called Saif to inform about the script that they were developing at Red Chillies. "He said, ‘There’s a lovely script, and I would like you to hear it, and do it’. Then I listened to it and met the director. Once the film was complete, he said, ‘It has come out as a lovely movie’. He was very happy,” Saif said. “Sometimes the presence (of Shah Rukh) can be overwhelming on sets and I think he understands that. He gave us room to make the film on our own. I felt I was working for his production with his kind of sensibility,” the actor added. Directed by Pulkit of "Bhakshak" fame, the film stars Rasika Dugal opposite Saif and the actor said he is a huge fan of the "Mirzapur" star. #ShahRukhKhan

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John David Washington says he showed up 30 minutes late to Christopher Nolan's house, barely understood the script the first time he read it........and still walked away with the lead role. Josh Horowitz: "Again, this crazy, amazing honor opportunity. Not many people get to be the protagonist, literally, in a Chris Nolan movie." "Does he deliver a script? Is it a conversation? How does it go down?" David Washington: "Yeah, I was told to be at his house at a certain time, and we're gonna talk about something. That was it." "I was in there like, maybe he's doing research for something else... We talked about movies and we talked about like how I love the movie, like movies. We talked about our love for films and, and just life and sports and stuff like that." "So after the meeting, I was like... I was thirty minutes late to the meeting. I was running up to the gate and like sweating profusely... And Emma greets me at the door, his wife, producing partner, and she's just laughing." "I think she could see how panicked I was... But we end up staying two and two and a half hours, and then after that, I got the call saying, 'Uh, will you be the protagonist?'" "I went crazy. We went, we had like three dinners, like it was like a Super Bowl... I felt like I made the Hall of Fame." On reading the script in Nolan's office: "I'm in Christopher Nolan's office reading a script of his. What is my life? ...I didn't understand that shit. Like, it took about three some plus hours to read it, you know?" "But I really did sincerely understand there's a way into the character... I kinda liked it. I can create, we can create together, and he kinda left that to me. He really trusted me with that. And I really love him for it because he didn't have to." "That's Christopher Nolan. He has his way... But it was quite the opposite. He wanted me to use my instincts."

John David Washington says he showed up 30 minutes late to Christopher Nolan's house, barely understood the script the first time he read it........and still walked away with the lead role. Josh Horowitz: "Again, this crazy, amazing honor opportunity. Not many people get to be the protagonist, literally, in a Chris Nolan movie." "Does he deliver a script? Is it a conversation? How does it go down?" David Washington: "Yeah, I was told to be at his house at a certain time, and we're gonna talk about something. That was it." "I was in there like, maybe he's doing research for something else... We talked about movies and we talked about like how I love the movie, like movies. We talked about our love for films and, and just life and sports and stuff like that." "So after the meeting, I was like... I was thirty minutes late to the meeting. I was running up to the gate and like sweating profusely... And Emma greets me at the door, his wife, producing partner, and she's just laughing." "I think she could see how panicked I was... But we end up staying two and two and a half hours, and then after that, I got the call saying, 'Uh, will you be the protagonist?'" "I went crazy. We went, we had like three dinners, like it was like a Super Bowl... I felt like I made the Hall of Fame." On reading the script in Nolan's office: "I'm in Christopher Nolan's office reading a script of his. What is my life? ...I didn't understand that shit. Like, it took about three some plus hours to read it, you know?" "But I really did sincerely understand there's a way into the character... I kinda liked it. I can create, we can create together, and he kinda left that to me. He really trusted me with that. And I really love him for it because he didn't have to." "That's Christopher Nolan. He has his way... But it was quite the opposite. He wanted me to use my instincts."

Dunmola♋

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Samuel L. Jackson explains how he landed the role of Jules in Pulp Fiction, and what it was like seeing the film for the first time on the big screen: “Pulp Fiction and I came together in a very strange kind of way. I remember auditioning for Quentin for Reservoir Dogs in New York (for the role of of Detective Jim Holdaway, Mr. Orange’s police contact). And apparently I didn't get that role. But I was at Sundance the year that he screened it for the first time. I was sitting there and I watched that movie - I was awed by it. I mean, there were people running up the aisles when Michael Madsen was cutting the cop's ear off. People were going, "Oh my God, this is horrible!" All these “auteurs” were running out of the theatre. I was like, "This is good. This is happening. This is different." So after the film, I walked up to Quentin and said, "This film's amazing, man. It's great." And he looked at me and said, "Hey! How'd you like the guy who got your part?" And I was amazed that he even remembered who I was - but he remembered me. A year or so later, I got a phone call saying Quentin Tarantino wants to have dinner with you, because he'd seen Jungle Fever and he liked that Gator character. When we had dinner, we were sitting there talking. We started talking about Hong Kong films and cartoons and foreign movies and obscure things that we watched, horror movies. We found out we liked the same kind of stuff. And he told me he was writing this thing, and he was writing this part with me in mind. He was going to send it to me. I went off to do another film. I was in the backwoods of Virginia somewhere doing a film, and the script came. A little plain brown wrapper from Jersey Films. And Jersey's got these gangster images on the logo. And it said, "If you show this script to anybody, two guys named Ernie and Luigi will come and break both of your legs." Whatever. I went, "Yeah, right." So I sat down and read it. Boom. I read this thing. It's like, "Oh my God. This is awesome." And then I said to myself, "Nobody writes a script this good. There's no way that this script is as good as I thought it was." I closed it. I opened it again. I read it immediately. Okay. This is great - If whoever produces this film lets him shoot exactly what I just read, if they stay away from it, they don't try to edit any of this stuff out - this is going to be a great film. It's going to be kind of audience-specific, because I like that kind of stuff. I have friends that I knew would like it. It was a generational kind of film. I never thought it would cross over and do all this stuff. We shot it. We had a great time doing it. And the first time I actually saw the film was at the Cannes Film Festival. That night, it screened, and I was sitting there watching the film. The audience was loving this movie, loving it. About halfway through, I realized there were subtitles at the bottom of it. So I said, "Hey, these people are reading it, and they're getting it. This might be special. This really might be something special." And actually, by the time it was over, there were tears running down my face. I was just so pleased that I was part of that particular film… I never felt that satisfied, and that kind of full about a performance and about being part of something as I was in that particular moment.” Quote comes from an Interview with the American Film Institute 2010

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Lupita Nyong'o claims Christopher Nolan wouldn't let her see The Odyssey script until she passed a mandatory "vibe check" "My agent called me and said, 'Christopher Nolan wants to meet you, but for a secret project.'" "'He's meeting to do a vibe check. But if he likes you, he might show you the script.'" "I sat down with him, and he walked me through the movie he was about to make." "'I have a role I'd like you to play.'" "'You were the only person I had in mind for it, so I'm desperate for you to play it.'"

Lupita Nyong'o claims Christopher Nolan wouldn't let her see The Odyssey script until she passed a mandatory "vibe check" "My agent called me and said, 'Christopher Nolan wants to meet you, but for a secret project.'" "'He's meeting to do a vibe check. But if he likes you, he might show you the script.'" "I sat down with him, and he walked me through the movie he was about to make." "'I have a role I'd like you to play.'" "'You were the only person I had in mind for it, so I'm desperate for you to play it.'"

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Richard Donner on why he made 'Superman' (1978) & the movie's connection to François Truffaut's 'Jules & Jim' (1962): "I certainly didn’t know it when we were making 'Superman' (1978) [that it would have a profound impact on millions of people around the world]. I was just trying to make the best movie I could make. I think it was during the first showing I attended — not the opening, but a regular screening in a theater, in New York. I watched the audience experience that movie and I was very moved, very excited. Before I came on board, the script was kind of a parody of a parody, It had been really well written by three or four really good writers, but they had been directed by a couple of Hungarians [producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind] who saw it as a comic book rather than a piece of history. Their script didn’t have any respect for what the character stood for, since I was a little kid. Tom Mankiewicz and I had known each other for years, and we’d always talked about working together, so I presented him with the problem, I asked him to bring a sense of reality, or verisimilitude, to the story. I wanted to be able to prove that a man could fly. Tom rewrote the entire script. Years before, there had been a French film called 'Jules and Jim' (1962, Truffaut), a great film. Two guys fall in love with the same woman. That’s what Superman was: two guys in love with the same woman. It happened to be that the two guys were the same guy, but not in the woman’s eyes. I asked Tom ‘How do we make that into a love story?’ He just fell right into it." I was trying to let the audience know that they were not looking at a comic book, or what had been done with Superman over the ages. This was the true story of Superman. In my eyes, when I was a kid, he was real. And he was in Tom’s eyes, too. We decided that’s the way we wanted the movie to be." (Richard Donner's interview with Michael P Coleman, 2020)

Richard Donner on why he made 'Superman' (1978) & the movie's connection to François Truffaut's 'Jules & Jim' (1962): "I certainly didn’t know it when we were making 'Superman' (1978) [that it would have a profound impact on millions of people around the world]. I was just trying to make the best movie I could make. I think it was during the first showing I attended — not the opening, but a regular screening in a theater, in New York. I watched the audience experience that movie and I was very moved, very excited. Before I came on board, the script was kind of a parody of a parody, It had been really well written by three or four really good writers, but they had been directed by a couple of Hungarians [producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind] who saw it as a comic book rather than a piece of history. Their script didn’t have any respect for what the character stood for, since I was a little kid. Tom Mankiewicz and I had known each other for years, and we’d always talked about working together, so I presented him with the problem, I asked him to bring a sense of reality, or verisimilitude, to the story. I wanted to be able to prove that a man could fly. Tom rewrote the entire script. Years before, there had been a French film called 'Jules and Jim' (1962, Truffaut), a great film. Two guys fall in love with the same woman. That’s what Superman was: two guys in love with the same woman. It happened to be that the two guys were the same guy, but not in the woman’s eyes. I asked Tom ‘How do we make that into a love story?’ He just fell right into it." I was trying to let the audience know that they were not looking at a comic book, or what had been done with Superman over the ages. This was the true story of Superman. In my eyes, when I was a kid, he was real. And he was in Tom’s eyes, too. We decided that’s the way we wanted the movie to be." (Richard Donner's interview with Michael P Coleman, 2020)

DepressedBergman

36,100 views • 7 months ago

Tom Holland shares a hilarious story about a driver giving him a backhanded compliment right before his final Spider-Man movie. "He's looking at me in the mirror and he goes, 'You know what kid, I think you're gonna get it.' I'm like, 'Really? Why?' And I was excited to hear that." "You know what, I think you're gonna get it because the kid that I just drove there... he is so good-looking." "That's exactly the confidence boost I need." "I saw him a few months later when I was shooting the film and he goes, 'I told you.' I'm like, 'What did you tell me? That I was gonna get the part, or that I was ugly?'"

Tom Holland shares a hilarious story about a driver giving him a backhanded compliment right before his final Spider-Man movie. "He's looking at me in the mirror and he goes, 'You know what kid, I think you're gonna get it.' I'm like, 'Really? Why?' And I was excited to hear that." "You know what, I think you're gonna get it because the kid that I just drove there... he is so good-looking." "That's exactly the confidence boost I need." "I saw him a few months later when I was shooting the film and he goes, 'I told you.' I'm like, 'What did you tell me? That I was gonna get the part, or that I was ugly?'"

Garaa

251,218 views • 2 days ago

Matt Damon says he accepted Christopher Nolan’s next movie before Nolan even told him it was The Odyssey “About 15 minutes into the call, he said, ‘I’m thinking of going back to work, and I’d like to offer you the central role’ So I just said yes right away” “He goes, ‘Don’t you want to hear what it is?’ I was like, sure” “It’s a two word pitch: The Odyssey. My heart skipped a beat. It’s the role of a lifetime”

Matt Damon says he accepted Christopher Nolan’s next movie before Nolan even told him it was The Odyssey “About 15 minutes into the call, he said, ‘I’m thinking of going back to work, and I’d like to offer you the central role’ So I just said yes right away” “He goes, ‘Don’t you want to hear what it is?’ I was like, sure” “It’s a two word pitch: The Odyssey. My heart skipped a beat. It’s the role of a lifetime”

Yonan

998,764 views • 12 days ago