“This was one of the few projects I was interested in doing, like Immortals. It’s a totally different energy from my other films and I was deeply interested in updating a classic and eternal story”–Tarsem Singh
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“This was one of the few projects I was interested in doing, like Immortals. It’s a totally different energy from my other films and I was deeply interested in updating a classic and eternal story”–Tarsem Singh
“If you didn’t grow up in 1950s, you have no idea about how very shocking it was for a woman like Hesther (played by Rachel Weisz) her to do what she did. She does something very courageous and bohemian. Modern audiences won’t fully understand how shocking her action would have been then”–Terence Davies
“The Games are like a Roman spectacle but they’re also a lot like the reality TV we see right now. People are riveted by the Games because we all have this need to root for someone to make it”–Gary Ross
The choice was sealed, when Gary Ross showed up for the first meeting with Lionsgate prepared with extensive storyboards, and a video presentation of real kids talking candidly and passionately about why they love the book so much.
Agnieszka Holland’s WWII Holovaust Drama opens February 10, 2012
Exploring the many stories from this period uncovers the incredible variety of human destinies and adventures, revealed in the richest texture of plots and dramas, with characters that face difficult moral and human choices, exercising both the best and the worst in human nature.