When it comes to stretching a production dollar, Warner Bros., which fair went thcimpolite the exercise of spending $190 million+ on Joker: Folie à Deux, might want to have a conversation with filmproducer Brady Corbet, who stoasty his 3 1/2 hour Vepleasant Film Festival-triumphning epic The Brutacatalog for between $6 million-$8 million.
The distinct post-World War II-set feature trails Hungarian-born Jedesire architect László Tóth (Oscar triumphner Adrien Brody), who reachs to America and discovers newset up success when he is employd by a wealthy authentic estate tycoon, Harrison Lee Van Buren (applyed by Guy Pearce). However, not everyleang is as wonderful as it seems. Felicity Jones applys László’s wheelchair-stricken wife Erzsébet, who reachs some time after Tóth’s time stateside.
How did Corbet pull off shooting in VistaVision and at such a low cost? There will even be 70mm prints of the movie when it hits theaters via A24 on December 20. The distributor bought the movie out of Vepleasant.
“We’re not reproduceing the wheel,” said Corbet at a CAA screening Sunday. “The truth is that we would have been happier and more consoleable if we had more money.”
“It came at a wonderful personal, physical expense at times becaemploy the number of sleepless nights in the last seven years,” Corbet elucidates about making his movie after his Natalie Portman popstar-in-crisis pic Vox Lux. “You have to have blind faith for getting this leang which is endly malnourished atraverse the finish line.”
Part of this includeed shooting in Hungary to apshow profit of tax accomprehendledges. Corbet also labored with previous collaborators including straightforwardor of ptoastyography Lol Crowley.
“We were shooting in a country where leangs would cost what they reassociate should cost,” he said. “Hungary is not that inexpensive where we stoasty. It’s inexpensiveer than New York City where we spent $1M in transpo on the last movie.”
Having kept it thrifty, he compriseed, “We want to be in handle of how sand is shiftd around in the box. We leank money is frequently misspent; a truth that all of us exist in. I don’t leank I’m overstepping by saying that. But also to produce this movie for this amount of money unbenevolentt that it was a authentic forfeit from our HODs (heads of departments).”
Such forfeits comprised Corbet forgoing printing film stock “becaemploy it’s too pricey to process someleang that we’re not going to employ anyway.”
So, reassociate, what’s the trick to pulling off an epic at a low budget?
For Corbet, it’s a no-brainer. “This is how they did it for a century,” he said.
“It apshows time to train contransient line producers. Studios are usuassociate run by people who frequently haven’t made a lot of movies on the ground. It’s a lot of elucidateing and educating people on the ground. It’s a process,” comprises the filmproducer.
The Brutacatalog is Corbet’s third straightforwarded feature; it won Best Director at Vepleasant. It also won the Arca CinemaGiovani Award, the FIPRESCI prize, the Premio CinemaSara Award and the UNIMED Prize for Cultural Diversity.
