jeudi 30 avril 2015

Beyond Unfriended: Timur Bekmambetov's wild plan to make desktop movies mainstream

“Chariots. Endless chariots.”

I’m Skyping with director Timur Bekmambetov, who’s just come off a day shooting Ben-Hur in Rome. It’s the kind of production that will give the Russian-born filmmaker behind Wanted and Night Watch an enormous canvas for his kinetic brand of action filmmaking. It also means, he tells me, a whole lot of horses.

But today we’re not talking about races or epics. We’re talking about computer screens.

Bekmambetov was a producer and the initial creative force behind Unfriended, the horror film that debuted earlier this month about a bunch of friends who find themselves stalked by a dead classmate. The stylistic conceit of Unfriended is that the entire movie takes place on a computer screen as the lead character...

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Beyond Unfriended: Timur Bekmambetov's wild plan to make desktop movies mainstream

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