Jessica Chastain is getting some big love from fans!
25.09.2022 - 12:37 / deadline.com
The Whale and The Good Nurse producer Scott Franklin put a positive spin on the ongoing above and below-the-line crew shortages impacting production on both sides of the Atlantic in a panel at the Zurich Summit on Saturday (September 24).
The long-time Darren Aronofsky collaborator, who works under the banner of the director’s Protozoa Pictures, said fresh opportunities lay behind the crew crunch.
“In the U.S. there is a two-fold conversation. First and foremost, how many years have we all been complaining how hard it is to get our shows set up, and now we have a problem that there’s too much demand for stuff,” he said. “The demand for content is good news. It’s a high-class problem.”
“We’re growing our craftsmen within the industry below the line. It’s going to take some time to catch up, but this is also an opportunity we’re creating,” he said.
Franklin suggested that issues around crew supply were nothing new. He recalled shooting a film in Cleveland in the early days of the local Ohio Motion Picture Tax.
“Ohio had just started the incentive and there wasn’t a local crew base. What we did for that film was bring in out-of-town crew, from New York, L.A. and Georgia, and we trained an entire local crew,” he said. “We did the same for the next film and before you knew it we had built up a crew base in Cleveland.”
He had to apply similar tactics for the Connecticut shoot of The Good Nurse in the spring of 2021, with Danish director Tobias Lindholm at the helm.
“Coming out of the pandemic, I had The Whale and The Good Nurse shooting at the same time. I couldn’t get crew for The Good Nurse. Obviously, Darren’s crew were loyal and were going to do his film if available. Many of the other crew were booked on two-year TV gigs, which
Jessica Chastain is getting some big love from fans!
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