“What you’re like when you’re 14 is not what you’re like when you’re 25. Crowley chose not to pick two lookalike performers who would mimic each other and in the end plumped for Oakes Fegley ( Pete’s Dragon) as young Theo and The Fault in Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort for the adult role. What we leant into was the bond that happens between these two slightly lost kids in this strange suburban environment.”Ĭasting a sprawling story like this is a particular challenge, especially when you have two time periods featuring the hero and he has to be played by two different actors. I think it’s a mistake to confuse that with a sexual element and it’s certainly not what we leant into.
“I don’t mean that in a sentimental way, I mean that in a complex way.
“The big, transformative emotion in this book and maybe in a lot of Donna’s other writing is friendship,” he continues. US writer Donna Tartt reads her new novel "The Goldfinch" at the world's book launch in Amsterdam, on September 22, 2013. In fact, Crowley only met her once before filming started and she never came to set. Unlike some authors who might have an opinion about how her work is adapted, Tartt didn’t seem to mind. “The initial decision to not follow the linear structure of the book, rather to intercut a little more cinematically, a little more impressionistically, that was the thing that liberated us and allowed us to deal with time passing and leave out chunks of the book which though beautiful and wonderful in their intentional setting were perhaps less dramatic,” he explains. Read more: Things you never knew about Aladdin “I’ve never had to do publicity for a trailer,” laughs Crowley, whose work includes Boy A, Martin McDonagh’s stage plays and 2015’s Oscar-nominated literary adaptation Brooklyn. The initial results can be seen in the first trailer, released tomorrow, which gives audiences a glimpse of Ansel Elgort as Theo, a young man who survives a terrorist attack in an art gallery which kills his mother and goes on a long journey of self-discovery, friendship, lies and deception (trust us, this guy is complicated). That was the challenge facing director John Crowley, who took on the daunting task of adapting Donna Tartt’s award-winning bestseller The Goldfinch for the big screen (in cinemas 27 September). How do you turn a beloved book that’s more than 800 pages long and won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction into a coherent, enjoyable movie? And one that the novel’s passionate fans will appreciate, while also enticing moviegoers unaware of the source material?
Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort in the first look at The Goldfinch - click to enlarge.
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