8/2/2023 0 Comments Lighthouse movie gerard butler“Once you come here you realise people were living here, not very long ago, quite differently,” reflects Nyholm. The setting, as true to the original story as practicalities allow (it’s not been possible for them to shoot at the actual location), has worked to place the film for the team making it. It can be a challenge but it’s basically a gift, I think.” And here, one character talking to another, one might be in rain, the other might be in the sun. “People are educated with film being more or less in a controlled environment and when the sun shines, it shines and when it rains, it rains. You want that for the atmosphere of the film.” “I think living on Flannen Island, which is the original inspiration, the weather is pretty difficult to control,” Nyholm says. Then we depart for the set, and it’s here, on a rocky walkway that stretches out into the sea stooped behind a wall so that the wind can’t sting our cheeks or shriek into our recorders, that director Kristoffer Nyholm reflects on how the unpredictable Scottish weather has provided a blessing of authenticity. He tells us that he hadn’t known it was a true story until he arrived on set: “I didn’t realise that it’s taught to a degree in schools around here.” Newcomer Connor Swindells, one of the three leads, is faced with the daunting task of making his feature film debut acting opposite Gerrard Butler and Peter Mullen. The rain subsided, replaced by a bitterly cold wind of some heft, and we made it first to the bus and then, a short time later, out to the set. Our arrival on set was even delayed by a healthy Scottish downpour, the rain hemming us back in a small guesthouse where we triple checked the batteries in our voice recorder and picked over preparatory notes. The film retains, if not its original title, its Scottish setting. “I was ready to completely sell out,” writer Bone mischievously asides. Here we are, and that’s how simple it all is.” “I told Cel about the mystery and said this could be a great film, and pretty much he said ‘Let’s do it, let’s write it’. It’s what these sick guys came up with,” Shannon finishes. The film winds back six weeks and tells the tale of what might have happened. Listening, suggests Shannon, “to make sure I got all the details right.” The producers question why they’re telling us the story when one of the two writers is sat five feet away. To this day, nobody knows what happened to them.” When the relief crew came to change crews, they couldn’t get ashore, there was no one there to meet them and when they finally did get ashore they went up to the lighthouse, the door was unlocked, they went in, the table was laid for dinner, one of the chairs was turned over and two of the oilskins were missing. And so the story goes, the guys have been away for six weeks keeping the lighthouse. “One guy on his own would go mad, two guys would be at loggerheads, so three kind of kept everybody sane.
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