In Cyrano, director Joe Wright found his first opportunity to direct a musical, bringing both intimacy and scope to the adaptation of Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name, whic…
is centered on Cyrano de Bergerac , a wordsmith who falls in love with a woman named Roxanne but is too self-conscious to pursue her. After discovering that she has feelings for Christian , Cyrano decides to aid him by writing love letters for him to send to Roxanne.for film over the course of two or three years, seeing the project come to fruition over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He added that in the end, the process of making the film “became quite a mission of love and human connection,” also touching on what drew him to shoot in the Sicilian town of Noto and the experience of shooting war scenes at active volcano Mount Etna, which he called “one of the silliest decisions of my career.” After setting cameras and sets up in “very thin” air at 16,000 feet, snow forced the crew to head downhill, there completing scenes with “just a camera and tripod.
Bennett touched on the process of recalibrating her performance for the screen, and the fact that all of the film’s songs were recorded live on set. “What gave me comfort was that we’re not singers, and we weren’t trying to sing perfectly. This isn’t a Broadway-esque musical…We embraced the flaws, and the humanness of the voice,” she said. “I loved how the music and dialogue are very fluid and it felt very naturalistic, so I didn’t have to sound like Adele, which I never could.
The film scripted by Schmidt features an original score and songs by Aaron and Bryce Dessner, with lyrics by Matt Berninger and Carin Besser. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Guy Heeley produced it with Schmidt, Berninger, Besser, Aaron Dessner, Sarah-Jane Robinson, Sheeraz Shah, and Lucas Webb exec producing. It premiered at Telluride and will hit theaters in Los Angeles on December 17, expanding to select theaters nationwide January 21.
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