Scottish born filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has created a successful career as a documentarian and feature film director, winning an Oscar for the stirring documentary One Day in September and helming acclaimed films The Last King of Scotland and State of Play.
Macdonald’s latest movie, Life in a Day, is also his most ambitious. Born out of a partnership between YouTube, Ridley Scott Associates and LG Electronics, the film is made up entirely of submissions from around the world (80,000 submissions, equalling 4500 hours from 140 countries to be exact), filtered down into a 90 minute feature about life on Earth on the 24th of July, 2010.
Nerdacy: Kevin MacDonald is famously known for directing The Last King of Scotland, which won Forest Whitaker an Academy Award for Best Actor, and now he’s taking his first step into action-thriller with his latest film, Black Sea. Starring Jude Law, Black Sea is about a submarine captain who takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.
I spoke with MacDonald about the film last month and here’s what he had to say about the film and possibly directing a sci-fi movie in the future.
WGTC writes: Last week I had the opportunity to talk with Ronan and Macdonald while they were at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, California for the How I Live Now press junket. In our exclusive video interview, they spoke about the challenges of adapting Rosoff’s novel for the big screen, how Ronan handled her character’s transition from being neurotic to strong-willed, how the songs in the soundtrack were chosen, and much more.
Kevin Macdonald: “Teenage years should be for thinking and doing things that maybe you wouldn’t do later in life and experimenting. So why conform!? I find it so boring that everyone asks me! As though it’s like the most shocking, awful thing in the world, my god!? Have you never been a teenager yourself?!”
