It’s safe to say that Richard Curtis isn’t a huge Star Wars fan. true love Post-production.
The writer-director of the beloved 2003 holiday rom-com recently told us independent connection Edited by Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Martin McCutchen, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Ellen The movie starring Rickman and Rowan Atkinson was a “disaster.”
“The strange thing is true love Yeah, it was a disaster when we finished the movie,” Curtis said of bringing together multiple storylines and character arcs. “We spent six months re-editing it and learning all the lessons about how to make a multi-threaded story.”
The film follows eight very different couples as they deal with their love lives in a variety of loosely related stories, all set in December and leading up to Christmas in London, England.
“When I write true lovewe read it through and it sounded great and I thought you might do A, B, C, D, E, F, G,” four weddings and a funeral The author explains. “But really, the danger when you do multiple stories is that you don’t commit to any one story and the audience never feels involved, so you end up doing A, B, C, C, A, so you Get into the story, then introduce a surprise, and then you end one story earlier than the others.
Curtis continued, “So I learned a lot about the complexities of multi-story buildings in the process of trying to save them. true love How bad things are in Parliament. I do have a bit of wisdom when it comes to what we do [That Christmas] Say, “When you start to [character] Danny, please leave him. Don’t do that. Stay with him a little longer, and then when we go to the twins, stay with them. All in all, I think I’ve learned some lessons.
All these lessons also helped him create his animated feature film debut, that christmasCombining his trilogy of children’s books, that christmas, snow day and Empty socksadapted into a film and currently streaming on Netflix.
