Artist Fernando Llanos was tasked with drawing his first storyboards at age 24 before the final script was ready, and also shot 43 hours of video.
In order to land the actor, the filmmaker moved the shoot up from September to May, which demanded the entire production prep in just nine weeks. It’s the reason why we are the people we are now.” In 20 years more, we will remember who we were back then. And suddenly the whole world knew about our reality in Mexico. There were not many places to achieve that and all of a sudden this film came out with such power. This film just happened to me.”Īt the time, said Garcia Bernal, “voices were not heard that much, the concept of freedom of speech was difficult in Mexico. Back then I didn’t have a clue, I was a boy, I hadn’t done anything, I had never read a feature film script… I begin reading ‘White Dog Black Dog’ I said ‘Wow, this is great, but the film finishes too soon! What happens to Octavio?’ I was confused.
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Garcia Bernal first heard about the movie when he was woken up in the middle of the night in London, where he was studying acting, by a live on-air radio phone call from the familiar voice of the WFM radio host “telling me about this film,” he said. Iñárritu thanked Soberón for exceeding his $1.5 million budget cap to “risk his money,” he said, “on a bunch of crazy people trying to do this film.” Our memories are going to travel inside the film.” Producer Tita Lombardo remembered a first-day ceremony with red roses when the director told them, “From this moment on, we are family. Many of those on the Zoom call, from actors Gael Garcia Bernal (who called in by phone), Adriana Barraza, Vanessa Bauche, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, and Goya Toledo, to Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolalla and producer Martha Sosa, had no idea what they were getting into when they signed onto this project with the fledgling director. You are going to enjoy the film in a different yet powerful way.” The restoration “changes the colors without changing the essence of the film,” said the director, “translated into the digital world. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 35 Films the Director Wants You to See
Night Shyamalan's Psychological Horror FilmĤ5 Directors Pick Favorite Horror Movies: Bong Joon Ho, Tarantino, del Toro and More 'Old' Trailer: A Family Holiday Turns Surreal in M. Gael García Bernal: 'It Would Be Cool' Playing 'Star Wars' Villain to Diego Luna's Cassian Andor A theatrical version will eventually reach theaters as well, via Alejandro Ramirez’s Cinepolis chain. Morelia debuted his short film “Journeys” in 1996 and went on to play most of the director’s movies, including the 2020 opening night title - a remastered version of “Amores Perros,” which will be released on streaming platforms later this year, with a special Criterion 4K digital restoration available on December 15. The film debuted at Cannes, winning the Critics Week Grand Prize, and went on to score foreign-language nominations for the Golden Globes and Oscars and a BAFTA win.įor the October 28 opening of the 2020 Morelia International Film Festival, Oscar-winner Iñárritu (“Birdman”) joined his cast and crew on Zoom to reminisce about the creative event that changed their lives. The movie was produced by Alejandro Soberón, who put up $2 million after reading the 300-page screenplay by rookie screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, which wove three Mexico City stories into a triptych united by a horrific car crash. It’s been 20 years since Alejandro González Iñárritu made his feature film debut with “ Amores Perros,” which launched the Mexico City WFM radio disc jockey onto the global film stage.
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