11/19/2023 0 Comments Viggo captain fantasticBut I would say I had a sixth or seventh draft after about a year. Ross: That's always a difficult thing to identify because sometimes you write something very quickly and you rewrite it for a long time. How long did the first draft of Captain Fantastic take to write? But you get sucked into this whole thing because there are a zillion movies and they're all jockeying for position. All this stuff has less to do with making the movie and everything to do with attracting an audience and selling the movie. Sundance is more of a gateway into a spring or summer release. Toronto and Telluride are gateways to a fall release. Captain Fantastic was actually purchased earlier so in conjunction with our producing partners, our financers and our distributors, we talked about the year and which film festival and how that leads to. Independent films have to sell to distributors. A lot of has to do with if the not purchased, then it becomes about when you're going to a film festival and which festival you’re going to. There was actually talk of the movie coming out last summer but I was still waiting on a couple things. Ross: Yeah – especially given the economics of independent financing today and the health of the industry. Because they see other cultures reflect on our culture but they don't see US culture reflecting on itself in quite the same way. I have seen and have had people reflect to me, maybe not in so many words or specifically, but I get the subtext of it - they're somewhat charmed and surprised and happy to see an American film reflect on our culture. You go to any country in the world and their multiplex is filled with our films. Our films penetrate every market in the world. There's a certain kind of cultural imperialism that we practice. What I've noticed - and I'm speaking very generally - is the foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. Does that translate overseas – this American cultural clash? I mean - the movie is so entrenched in American customs and culture. It's just the strength of the response may be different depending on the culture. We showed it in front of two thousand people there and we showed it in Copenhagen. I would say they were more vocal about certain things reflective on US culture. So I hesitate to single out a particularly French response as opposed to an international response. ![]() That audience may be largely French but I feel like they're people from everywhere. ![]() That was the first time we showed it to any non-US audience. Matt Ross: Actually the first international reception was at Cannes in May.
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