![]() ![]() It’s impossible to prognosticate, and so many filmmakers are making good movies now. No, I want to make a movie, and I have one I’m working on right now before that last water gets sucked into the ground. Obviously I couldn’t do that by myself or with an exclusively American team, so hiring Pablo and Claudia were core early decisions to ensure that I wasn’t completely messing up the idea of a story that roots in both places.ĭo you see yourself staying in television instead of going back to film? But whether she had or hadn’t, the idea here was to make something that would genuinely work for both North American and Latin American audiences. Kathryn has not ever expressed any great interest in doing TV. Players will come across a battle with a weaker version of Cocolia during the story before they can fight the actual battle with her. Is that why this wasn’t another partnership with Kathryn? You’ve said that it was important here to work with Latin-American directors, such as Pablo Trapero and Claudia Llosa. There’s no such thing! A movie is two hours or three. Everyone says, oh, a series is a like a 10-hour movie but that’s completely nonsensical. It’s not just taking a movie and multiplying it by five. The other thing is that 10 hours is a tremendously long narrative runaway that gave me the opportunity to develop characters more than in a feature film. One of which was that the film business is changing every week basically, and I’m not sure it’s getting better. I had started thinking about doing something in Latin America as a film, but a couple things happened that moved it over to television. Welcome to Warcraft Logs, a Web site that provides combat analysis for Blizzards World of Warcraft MMO. And now with Echo 3, which follows two black-ops soldiers (Luke Evans and Michael Huisman) who travel to Colombia to stage a personal rescue mission, Boal gets to ask and answer the kind of heavy-duty questions that he has been exploring his entire career. Boal is an attuned and engaged interview subject who seems to enjoy giving as much as he gets – the kind of storyteller with one foot in Hollywood, the other in the real world, all the while aware that neither is easy to navigate. “I would take a whack at that answer, but I’m curious what your opinion is? Because I have a feeling you’re more aware of the landscape than I am,” Boal says after being asked how Echo 3′s mix of mercenary action and geopolitical intrigue stands out from the current glut of streaming series fighting for attention.Īnswering a question with a question isn’t just a cute journalism trick of evasion, though. And today, while sitting down for an interview to discuss his new Apple TV+ series Echo 3, Boal is still asking the questions. The Oscar-winning screenwriter of director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker – the beginning of a strong collaboration between the two that has since delivered Zero Dark Thirty and Detroit – Boal started his career as an investigative journalist, covering politics and crime for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and Playboy. Mark Boal cannot help but still play the journalist. ![]()
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