The screenplay

Michael Mann

And in the late 80s, I thought, I've had awareness and imagery scenes from this film for as long as I can remember. And wouldn't it be great to see if any of it held up? Because if it did, it would be fascinating to immerse oneself in that world of 1757. The screenplay, which was written by Philip Dunne, was marvelous.

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Kat Ellinger

And whilst I was in this period of looking for inspiration, it really got me to thinking of all the writers to come out of that post-punk generation. So we had, for example, the writers of Splatterpunk and people like Clive Barker, for example, very profane, very visceral writer, wrote about all sorts of violence and perversity.

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pops in my mind is that when we found this house which I loved but which was not like it was not a I think an easy house to secure and it wasn't like even in the right location and whatever and I was like I feel like this is it and I was like taking photos and found a a poetry book on the bedside table and it was that Philip Larkin book and the the trees poem was dog-eared and that was already in the script yeah it was already in the movie yeah relax and spread

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