In tackling “The Two Popes,” Fernando Meirelles was excited by the challenge of directing a film that consisted largely of conversations between two holy men. “The dialogue was very nice when I read it,” he recalls of Anthony McCarten‘s script, adapted from his own stage play. But he soon realized that a movie with “two guys talking” about “religion and the church” was in danger of being “very boring.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Meirelles above.
See Anthony McCarten Interview: ‘The Two Popes’ screenwriter
The Netflix release is about the transition of power between the conservative Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and the more liberal Pope Francis I (Jonathan Pryce). During many intense conversations the two men try to forge an alliance to benefit the Catholic Church into the future. But for Meirelles, the question was “how to make this cinematic, interesting and even entertaining.”
He decided “to make it very intimate.
See Anthony McCarten Interview: ‘The Two Popes’ screenwriter
The Netflix release is about the transition of power between the conservative Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and the more liberal Pope Francis I (Jonathan Pryce). During many intense conversations the two men try to forge an alliance to benefit the Catholic Church into the future. But for Meirelles, the question was “how to make this cinematic, interesting and even entertaining.”
He decided “to make it very intimate.
- 11/25/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
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