When equestrian Randy Savvy saw “Nope,” he was impressed with Daniel Kaluuya’s ease around horses. Savvy knew it was a sign of the actor’s process coming to fruition: To prepare for his part as Hollywood horse trainer Oj Haywood, Kaluuya reached out to the co-founder of the Compton Cowboys for lessons in horsemanship. It paid off. “In order for him to fully and authentically execute his role, he wanted to be able to get some experience and some insights from guys who are already essentially living that role. Like we do this, we’re Black men, we work with horses in Hollywood,” Savvy told IndieWire. “So for him, connecting that link was important. And he ended up getting some good takeaways from it. I saw some stuff on the screen like, okay, bro, I see you.”
Jordan Peele’s alien thriller has a rare relationship to animals on screen.
Jordan Peele’s alien thriller has a rare relationship to animals on screen.
- 7/30/2022
- by Esther Zuckerman
- Indiewire
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On a sleepy Monday morning at the horse stables in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, Lil Nas X has got exactly one horse in the back.
Nas — real name Montero Hill — is the 20-year-old rapper and internet savant behind the unlikeliest hit single of this (or any) year: the hip-hop-country crossover “Old Town Road.” A few months ago, he was a college dropout living on his sister’s couch in Atlanta with a negative balance in his Wells Fargo account. Now, he...
On a sleepy Monday morning at the horse stables in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, Lil Nas X has got exactly one horse in the back.
Nas — real name Montero Hill — is the 20-year-old rapper and internet savant behind the unlikeliest hit single of this (or any) year: the hip-hop-country crossover “Old Town Road.” A few months ago, he was a college dropout living on his sister’s couch in Atlanta with a negative balance in his Wells Fargo account. Now, he...
- 5/20/2019
- by Josh Eells
- Rollingstone.com
In this Q&A, director Steven Spielberg discusses his latest film War Horse.
Steven Spielberg is one of the movie industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, as well as a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. He is the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed blockbusters including Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park.
For his most recent project, the three-time Academy Award winner traveled to England to shoot the wartime movie, War Horse, based on the novel and Broadway play about a horse on an odyssey during World War I. The distinguished director recently discussed the film and revealed what attracted him to the epic project.
Q: It’s very rare that a project is successful as a novel, as a play and as a movie – but War Horse is all three. Why do you think the story is so versatile?
Spielberg: The bones...
Steven Spielberg is one of the movie industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, as well as a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. He is the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed blockbusters including Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park.
For his most recent project, the three-time Academy Award winner traveled to England to shoot the wartime movie, War Horse, based on the novel and Broadway play about a horse on an odyssey during World War I. The distinguished director recently discussed the film and revealed what attracted him to the epic project.
Q: It’s very rare that a project is successful as a novel, as a play and as a movie – but War Horse is all three. Why do you think the story is so versatile?
Spielberg: The bones...
- 4/11/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
If there's one subject that Steven Spielberg has proved he can do well over the years, it's war. Having directed such weighty and classic musings on it such as Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998) (both of which netted him Oscars), slightly more overlooked movies like Empire Of The Sun (1987) and even the, shall we say, interesting project that was 1941 (1979), it would be fair to say that he knows the genre pretty well. Oh, and he also executive produced the critically lauded television miniseries Band Of Brothers (2001), and that's just counting the terrestrial conflicts.
With his latest film War Horse, however, based on the moving and poignant children's book by Michael Morpurgo originally published in 1982, he is not looking at the First World War in terms of the many young soldiers who were pulled into the so called 'war to end all wars' but is instead focusing on the equine army,...
With his latest film War Horse, however, based on the moving and poignant children's book by Michael Morpurgo originally published in 1982, he is not looking at the First World War in terms of the many young soldiers who were pulled into the so called 'war to end all wars' but is instead focusing on the equine army,...
- 1/12/2012
- Shadowlocked
The director's new epic is a fitting testament to the thousands of horses that served and fell during the first world war
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
War Horse has had an extraordinary career. It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play.
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. Early signs...
- 1/9/2012
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
In Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel War Horse, Joey, an English plow horse, narrates his own harrowing journey through the horrors of World War I. For the current blockbuster stage adaptation of War Horse running in London and New York, a masterful crew of puppeteers bring Joey to dazzling, heart-rending life.
But for Steven Spielberg’s feature film of War Horse, Joey is simply a real horse, with nothing more than his eyes and body to communicate what he’s going through.
Now, make no mistake, Steven Spielberg knows from horses. His family has kept a stable of steeds at their...
But for Steven Spielberg’s feature film of War Horse, Joey is simply a real horse, with nothing more than his eyes and body to communicate what he’s going through.
Now, make no mistake, Steven Spielberg knows from horses. His family has kept a stable of steeds at their...
- 12/27/2011
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
From Mother Nature Network's Gerri Miller:
According to "War Horse" director Steven Spielberg, "Four million horses were killed in World War I and not just from shelling or gunfire, but from malnutrition and exposure." Spielberg depicts that brutal reality in his new film, but despite the harrowing situations they face, the equine heroes of Spielberg's latest epic were not harmed in any way making the movie. Extra care was taken in a climactic sequence in which a horse is caught up in barbed wire in No Man's Land. "It took much longer to shoot that scene because we had to make sure every single shot was safe for the horse." The barbed wire was actually "Styrofoam rubber painted silver," he adds.
American Humane Society representative Barbara Carr was on set throughout and "had the power to pull the plug if she ever felt any of the horses were not up...
According to "War Horse" director Steven Spielberg, "Four million horses were killed in World War I and not just from shelling or gunfire, but from malnutrition and exposure." Spielberg depicts that brutal reality in his new film, but despite the harrowing situations they face, the equine heroes of Spielberg's latest epic were not harmed in any way making the movie. Extra care was taken in a climactic sequence in which a horse is caught up in barbed wire in No Man's Land. "It took much longer to shoot that scene because we had to make sure every single shot was safe for the horse." The barbed wire was actually "Styrofoam rubber painted silver," he adds.
American Humane Society representative Barbara Carr was on set throughout and "had the power to pull the plug if she ever felt any of the horses were not up...
- 12/22/2011
- by James Gerken
- Huffington Post
[1] It's not even a slight exaggeration to say that Steven Spielberg is one of the most beloved filmmakers of all time, so the fact that we're getting not one but two Spielberg-helmed film this holiday season is a treat indeed. One of those is War Horse, based on a classic children's book by Michael Morpurgo. Due out Christmas Day, the drama follows the epic journey of a lovable steed named Joey who winds up on the front lines of World War I -- and his beloved owner Albert (newcomer Jeremy Irvine), who never stops looking for him. At a recent press junket in New York City, Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and screenwriter Richard Curtis held a roundtable interview to talk about their new project. (Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was also in attendance, but was channeling a "strong and silent" kind of vibe throughout.) Read the full transcription of the interview after...
- 12/12/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
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