When you’re making your directorial debut, it helps to have famous friends who happen to be Oscar-winning filmmakers. Jonah Hill is behind the camera for the first time on a feature with “Mid90s,” which premiered to solid buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, and it turns out the entire project got shaped with help from Spike Jonze. The actor-turned-director recently told Collider how the “Her” and “Being John Malkovich” Oscar winner was instrumental to the creation of “Mid90s.”
“Originally the movie was about something completely different but it kept flashing back to the main character when he was with his friends when he was 12,” Hill said. “And Spike said to me, you look less enthused when you’re talking about the ‘A’ story, and you light up like a Christmas tree when you’re talking about the other stuff.”
Hill originally viewed his...
“Originally the movie was about something completely different but it kept flashing back to the main character when he was with his friends when he was 12,” Hill said. “And Spike said to me, you look less enthused when you’re talking about the ‘A’ story, and you light up like a Christmas tree when you’re talking about the other stuff.”
Hill originally viewed his...
- 9/20/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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