Why Streep, Hanks, and Spielberg Rushed to Get The Post to Press: "This couldn't wait."
Saw The Post yesterday, and when Kay Graham said, "We publish," the theater audience broke out in whistles, cheers, clapping, stomping, and whooping, and again at the end of the movie.
What an inspiring and timely movie.
Very interesting Vanity Fair article here. Spielberg first saw the script in Feb. of last year and rushed to get the movie into production and out into theaters:
Why Streep, Hanks, and Spielberg Rushed to Get The Post to Press
"This couldn’t wait,” Steven Spielberg explained after The Post’s first awards-season screening in New York City Sunday night. Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, and costume designer Ann Roth joined him once the credits rolled on this David-and-Goliath story, which follows The Washington Post’s Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee as they fight to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Among the more striking behind-the-scenes tales was just how swiftly this project came together.
“What could have inspired you to make a film about journalists standing up to an adversarial presidency?” panel moderator Mark Harris dryly asked. Spielberg then wowed the insider crowd by explaining that producer Amy Pascal handed him 31-year-old screenwriter Liz Hannah’s spec script for The Post a mere nine months ago.
The director was actually in the middle of post-production on next year’s special-effects-heavy Ready Player One when he ducked away to quickly shoot The Post. The motivation for his unorthodox move—and his swiftness—was the desire to “tell this story today.”
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“Some of the greatest stories that haven’t been told are the low-hanging fruit of our collective history,” Spielberg said, getting the discussion back on track. “The relevance is up to everybody, to strike their own balance between the news then and the news today. But sometimes bad things do happen twice.”
More at link:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/the-post-movie-steven-spielberg-tom-hanks-meryl-streep-pentagon-papers
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in Sarasota Florida and surprising the audience cheered and clapped at the end. Spielberg using Nixon and Ellsberg recordings was brilliant.
