I have another Oscar contender roundtable for you lovely people out there. This one concerns the producers of some of the most talked about films this year. Unfortunately, this roundtable is moderated by Stephen Galloway, so you will have to deal with that. But the things they talk about are still interesting.
This roundtable includes Peter Chernin (St. Vincent, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Cathleen Sutherland (Boyhood), Marc Platt (Into the Woods), Emma Thomas (Interstellar), John Lesher (Birdman, Fury), and Eric Fellner (The Theory of Everything).
It would have been interesting for this conversation to be filmed after the hack at Sony. It obviously would have come up, especially due to the e-mails from Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal. Alas, you can tell this has been in the can for quite a bit, so we will not get to enjoy that bit of talking.
I thought Emma Thomas, who (for those who don’t know) is Christopher Nolan‘s producer and wife, said something great about if she would return to franchise filmmaking:
If it was the right franchise film. Everyone puts their franchise movies into one box and treats them as if they’re all the same thing, but the future of the franchises is allowing them to be their own thing and not all trying to imitate each other. That’s the true danger for the theatrical experience.
This sameness and imitation is what is killing blockbusters for me, so when something like Interstellar comes along, it is such a relief to see a unique vision.
You can watch the full roundtable with the producers below.
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