The life of a movie director isn’t all glamour and red carpets.
Getting movies made, particularly personal stories or passion projects, can be exceedingly difficult.
Then if the movie fails to turn a profit, the director will be left more precarious and with fewer doors open than before.
Oftentimes, directors will make compromises to get their movies realized — particularly financial compromises.
Catherine Hardwicke, in a recent interview with Yahoo News, detailed her struggles to make her debut “Thirteen.”The film is about two (you guessed it) 13-year-old delinquents, Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Evie (Nikki Reed).
According to Hardwicke, the characters’ ages and the sensual subject matter meant no studio would touch it: “Every financier said, ‘No, we can’t make it.
How could we make a movie that’s gonna be R-rated with an unknown 13-year-old girl in the lead?’””Thirteen” was ultimately shot for $2 million (raised by Hardwicke herself with independent equity) over 24 days.
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