found unresponsive in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28. He was 54.
22.12.2023 - 17:51 / deadline.com
Director Ruben Östlund announced in Cannes that he wanted one of the scenes in his upcoming airplane disaster movie The Entertainment System Is Down to prompt the biggest walkout in the history of cinema.
Seven months on, the Swedish two-time Cannes Palme d’Or winner is getting closer to realizing this ambition having completed the screenplay for the film.
“It’s being translated into English. We’ll be going everywhere for the casting… The aim is to shoot in early 2025,” the director told Deadline at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps earlier this week.
As previously revealed, the social satire will be set on a long-haul flight which descends into deadly chaos when the inflight entertainment system goes down.
“Modern human beings are used to being able to distract themselves with screens, we’re never bored. Soon after take-off on this long-haul flight – I was thinking something like London to Sydney – the passengers get the horrible news that the entertainment system is not working. As their iPhones and iPads start charging out, they’re doomed to analogue boredom,” recapped Östlund.
“It’s been a great challenge to write the script because you’re very limited when it comes to creating dynamic, nuance, and energy in one closed environment like that. So, it took a long time but I think I’ve managed to do something dynamic, even if it takes place in one place,” he added.
The site of the shoot has yet to be set but Östlund says the plan is to build a life-size replica of a modern airplane in a studio.
“I don’t want to limit myself to working in small sections… I want to be able to do long tracking shots. It will be one of the biggest studio builds when it comes to airplanes that has ever been made,” he
found unresponsive in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28. He was 54.
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