The making of Alejandro G.
Iñárritu’s 2015 survival drama “The Revenant” was an infamous nightmare, but it could have been even more challenging had the filmmaker gone through with his original plan to stage the entire movie as one take.
The decision would have given Iñárritu his second consecutive one-take movie after “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).” Of course “Birdman” is not an actual one-take but a series of long takes stitched together in editing to appear as a single shot.
Regardless, planning for a one-take effect would have made the already-hectic “Revenant” shoot even more grueling.
Leonardo DiCaprio revealed Iñárritu’s plan during a recent appearance on Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast.“There was no way to foresee what he was going to do out there on ‘The Revenant,’” DiCaprio said of Iñárritu’s vision.
“The script was one thing.
It was a linear story of
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