Oliver Stone Talks Climate Change Being ‘The Killer Of All Time,’ An American Civil War Over Trump & Making The Case For Nuclear Power In New Film — Venice Q&A + Clip
07.09.2022 - 17:11
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Oliver Stone is in Venice this year to debut his latest documentary, Nuclear. Written alongside political scholar Joshua S. Goldstein, the film sets out to re-examine the role nuclear power can play in our lives and makes the case that the energy source is humanity’s only realistic alternative to fossil fuels in the fight against climate change. Deadline sat down with Stone and Goldstein prior to the film’s premiere on the Lido to discuss why the pair decided to link up and how the lengthy production process almost “took the life” out of Stone.
As always, the JKF and Platoon director is candid in his assessment of politics abroad as well as back home, concluding that climate change will be “the killer of all time” and the United States may fall into a civil war over the FBI investigation into former president Donald Trump. Stone also suggests that his next narrative feature film may be his last.
Nuclear debuts Out of Competition in Venice on September 9. The Gersh Agency is handling world sales. Deadline can also share an exclusive clip from the documentary below.
DEADLINE: Nuclear. How did this film come together?
JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN: I’m an international relations professor, and I got into climate change about eight years ago and quickly realized nuclear power was the key. I then teamed up with a Swedish nuclear engineer called Staffan Qvist and wrote a book that came out three years ago about how France and Sweden quickly decarbonized their grids by using nuclear. And out of that, we wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. Oliver saw that op-ed, and then he read my book. I asked him about making it into a film, and that’s where it all started.
OLIVER STONE: This is a highly technical subject that’s not my forte. I wanted to
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