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Sam Mendes se lance dans le tournage de l'épopée sur la Première Guerre mondiale 1917

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- La troupe entièrement britannique du premier film de Mendes depuis qu'il a passé la main sur la franchise 007 comprend Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth et Richard Madden

Sam Mendes se lance dans le tournage de l'épopée sur la Première Guerre mondiale 1917
Le réalisateur Sam Mendes

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Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have announced the start of principal photography on 1917 [+lire aussi :
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, a World War I drama that marks Sam Mendes’ first film since his financially and critically successful James Bond sequels, Skyfall [+lire aussi :
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 and Spectre [+lire aussi :
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Exact plot details are scant, but the film is said to follow two young British soldiers (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay and Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) over the course of a single day at the height of the Great War. As in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk [+lire aussi :
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, these up-and-comers will be joined on screen by British acting royalty in supporting roles: Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game [+lire aussi :
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Sherlock), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech [+lire aussi :
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), Richard Madden (BodyguardGame of Thrones), Andrew Scott (SherlockSpectre) and Mark Strong (The Imitation GameZero Dark Thirty) are all present and accounted for.

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The First World War has been depicted far less frequently in cinema than the Second; the 1931 Hollywood adaptation All Quiet on the Western Front is often considered the definitive filmic take on the conflict. Aiming to mark their territory, Mendes and his regular cinematographer Roger Deakins (recently crowned with an Oscar for Blade Runner 2049 [+lire aussi :
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 after being nominated 13 previous times) are planning to shoot the entire film as one mocked-up long shot – the same technique used in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman and the opening Day of the Dead sequence in Spectre

1917 will be Mendes’ first official writing credit; his co-writer is rising screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Edgar Wright’s upcoming Last Night in SohoPenny Dreadful). In line with its producer Steven Spielberg’s recent accelerated production turnarounds, it is hoped that principal photography will wrap later this summer for a December awards-season rollout. The battle sequences are being shot on Salisbury Plain, England (not far from Stonehenge), and Hankley Common in the Scottish Highlands. 

On behalf of Amblin Partners, Spielberg said: “Our company has been a home for Sam since his first film [American Beauty]. I am so happy to have him back here in his old room spinning new stories – especially this hugely daring and ambitious new movie.” 

“I couldn’t be happier to be back working with Amblin and Steven Spielberg again,” said Mendes. “I’ve been working on this script for over a year, so it’s very exciting to start making the movie itself a reality.” 

1917 is being produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris for the former’s own UK outfit Neal Street ProductionsCallum McDougall and Jayne-Anne Tenggren are also credited as main producers. Amblin Partners is the main US producer, and Universal Pictures holds the worldwide distribution rights.

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