Tyldum steadily Academy courses – Dagsavisen

Morten Tyldum is as urgently visited Norway and the premiere of his first international film, “The Imitation Game” with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. With more heavy nominations in the bag for the film due in cinemas 1. Christmas Day, including five Golden Globe, he is also a big favorite when Oscar nominations come in mid-January. However, he is alarmed by North Korea hacker attacks against film company Sony to frame the American Christmas comedy “The Interview,” which is about the assassination plans against North Korean leader. The film is withdrawn, also in Norway.

 
 

– I think it’s terrible what’s happening now. I realize that the studio pulled the film, but I think the pressure ca me from cinemas. They were terrified. Had “The Interview” been released big now, it had destroyed all the Christmas weekend in theaters. No one had dared to give the cinema in the United States for fear of an explosion in neighboring hall, says Morten Tyldum.

 
 
 
 

Directing Oscar

 
  – This is about censorship when a different power gag freedom of expression through threats. It all are afraid of now is self-censorship for example when making a film with an action that refers to the Middle East. Man is afraid to provoke, and now it is the evidence that threats actually works. The ripple effects may be extreme, says Tyldum, as with “The Imitation Game” has become one of the most important new directors in Hollywood and knows the system well from the inside.

 
  – I think that this means that films about political conflicts now become harder to realize, says director who have made a historical drama about Alan Turing, the Briton who broke the so-called Enigma code during war and helped to short down war by almost two years.

 
 

The success of “The Imitation Game,” which has received five Golden Globe nominations including best film, made Tyldum to one of Hollywood’s major players. He is no longer excited about how many Oscars the film is nominated for, but if he gets nominated for best director. The success, however, has caused him to crack even a code, Norse Code, together with his wife and partner Janne Tyldum.

 
 

– I’ve been wanting to do something with the position I’ve got, so we have established a production company called Norse Code. Both Janne and I are involved, and it is because that absolutely everyone we meet ask about Nordic stories. I sit in meetings with HBO to develop a television series, and they ask, “Do you have a Norwegian book, a Norwegian one point or another that you have read or heard that you want to bring to us?”. There is something about the way we look at history that appeals to them. They have intercepted all the Danish series and now also all Norwegian series, “Lilyhammer,” says Tyldum.

 
 
 
 

Develop Norwegian stories

 
 

He believes that instead of making films and serials in Norway first, then sell it to the Americans, he will take the stories directly through Norse Code.

 
 

– The goal is to create a development company to develop Norwegian books, comics, short stories in English for production in the United States. As a director can not I made more than a movie every other year, therefore it makes sense to help create something more, to be a door opener. I’m lucky to work with great writers, like Chris Terrio who won an Oscar for “Argo” and Mark L. Smith, who wrote “The reverant” for Leonardo DiCaprio. I work with Anthony Peckham on “Pattern Recognition”, and of course Graham Moore in “The Imitation Game”. I am looking for projects that I now can bring to them, says Tyldum, adding that he has earned this position because he never tried to make himself into an American director.

 
 

– My strength is that I’m Scandinavian, says director who is one of the biggest nomination gleaners for both large and small prices now at year end.

 
 
 
 

The actors director

 
 

– Obviously blast with Golden Globe, although it means as much to me personally is that we got SAG nominations, says Tyldum, which points out that the American actor Guild Screen Actors Guilt (SAG) nominees throughout “The Imitation Game “-ensemblet.

 
 

– This is perhaps the clearest stylus when it comes to how it goes with Oscar. SAG fills majority of Academy members, real members who vote. They gave us three out of three nominations.

 
 

– It also means a lot to you as a director?

 
 

– Yes, as a director in Hollywood is to get a nomination for the actors your most important thing you can get. In Hollywood measured on two things. One is how good you are as a filmmaker. The second is how you pick actors. The fact that you are a director who gets nominated actors, it is the best value you can have.

 
 

– Has it provided immediate count for SAG nominations?

 
 

– Yes, actors requesting meetings and watch the film. Now I suddenly become a director who can green light projects and it is brand new. So I’ve been told that I have to be careful what I say. For I am accustomed to Norwegian courtesy, and receives most ok screenplay little halvpositivt and says that it is exciting. But you can not say the course. When people go out and say that Morten is positive and will direct, and so balls it up. The trick is to deny everything until you are convinced that you should say yes. The lengthy communication is perhaps the most negative with Hollywood.

 
 

– Is the news that you are in talks to direct “Star Trek” movie become that way?

 
 

– “Star Trek”? It’s quite strange. The list at Paramount over directors they want to talk to, which is leaked to the website Deadline, thus it exploded all over. They have requested a meeting with me, but they shall surely started already in May-June. I see, but I have other things that I think is more realistic right now, says Morten Tyldum, which has large film projects as “Chain Of Events” and William Gibson adaptation “Pattern Recognition” under development.