Tom Jolliffe on playing with character perspective to take the audience exactly where you want them… In the history of cinema, many writers and directors have sought to transfix an audience and take them to very deliberate places. Sometimes these tales fire straight like an arrow, leading us on a linear and clear path, with […]
HBO Max teams with Amblin for Rashomon-inspired TV series
In December 2018 it was announced that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin was in development on a TV drama inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1950 film Rashomon, and now comes word that HBO Max has boarded the project. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) are scripting the drama, which will not be a direct adaptation of […]
Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon
Continuing a look back at some of the most ground-breaking films in cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Rashomon… When looking back through the work of Akira Kurosawa, it would be difficult to pinpoint only one film as particularly ground-breaking. The truth his, through his early career in a post-war boom for Japanese cinema […]
Amblin developing TV adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1950 film Rashomon is in development as a dramatic mystery thriller series from Amblin Television, with plans for a 10-episode season which – as with the original movie – will tell a single event from multiple points of view, allowing the audience to piece together the truth behind the mystery. “We couldn’t […]