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UNIVERSAL PICTURES and MEDIA RIGHTS CAPITAL
Present A
GAMBIT PICTURES Production
In Association With ELECTRIC SHEPHERD Productions A Film by
GEORGE NOLFI MATT DAMON
EMILY BLUNT ANTHONY MACKIE JOHN SLATTERY MICHAEL KELLY and
TERENCE STAMP
Executive Producers ISA DICK HACKETT JONATHAN GORDON
Produced by MICHAEL HACKETT GEORGE NOLFI BILL CARRARO CHRIS
MOORE
Based Upon the Short Story “Adjustment Team” by PHILIP K. DICK
Screenplay by GEORGE NOLFI
Directed
by GEORGE NOLFI
CAST
(In
Order of Appearance)
DavidNorris . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .MATTDAMON Suburban Moms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . LISA THORESON FLORENCE KASTRINER Suburban Neighbors . . . . . . . . . .
. . PHYLLIS MCBRYDE
NATALIE E. CARTER Chuck Scarborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AS
HIMSELF Jon Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AS HIMSELF
U.S.
Coast Guard Officer . . CAPT. GREGORY P. HITCHEN Upstate Farmer . . . . . . .
DARRELL JAMES LENORMAND
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg . . . . . . . . . . . AS HIMSELF Charlie Traynor . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MICHAEL KELLY Political Consultants . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KAR
R.J.
KONNER Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUSAN D. MICHAELS Harry
Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANTHONY MACKIE Albert, Campaign
Aide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GREGORY LAY Robyn, Campaign Aide . . . . . .
. . . . . LAUREN HODGES James Carville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .AS HIMSELF Mary Matalin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AS
HERSELF Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOHN SLATTERY
Senior Campaign Aide . . . . . AMANDA MASON WARREN Elise Sellas . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .EMILY BLUNT McCrady . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .ANTHONY RUIVIVAR Norris Supporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .SANDHI SANTINI
LAURIE
DAWN Christine, Charlie’s Assistant . . . . . . CHRISTINE LUCAS Betty Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .AS HERSELF Man in Madison Square Park . . . . JIM EDWARD GATELY Bus Driver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DON HEWITT, SR. Bus Passengers . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VENIDA EVANS
KYOKO
BRUGUERA
DAVID
GREGOIRE Susan, RSR Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JULIE HAYS Miller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FABRIZIO BRIENZA Burdensky . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID BISHINS Junior Partners . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KATE NOWLIN
ROB
YANG Brooklyn Ice House Bartender . . . . . . . . JENNIFER EHLE Johnny from Red
Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOHNNY CICCO Maitre D’ Paul De Santo . . . . . .
. . . . . .PEDRO PASCAL New Leaf Waiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.MICHAEL BOYNE New Leaf Waitress . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SARAH BRADFORD Taxi
Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETE EPSTEIN Police
Officer Maes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRIAN HALEY Police Sergeant . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KIRSTY MEARES Onieals Waitress . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . LAURA KENLEY Lauren, Elise’s Best Friend . . . . . .
JESSICA LEE KELLER Donaldson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DONNIE
KESHAWARZ Donaldson’s Aide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KIERAN CAMPION
Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TERENCE STAMP
Orthopedic
Surgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SANDI CARROLL Newscaster Daniel Bazile . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .AS HIMSELF Adrian Troussant, Elise’s Fiancé . . . . . .
. SHANE MCRAE Cedar
Lake Receptionist . . . . . . . . MEGHAN ANDREWS Court Registrar . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .SANDRA BERRIOS Thompson’s Aides . . . . . . . . . . . .
DAVID ALAN BASCHE JOEL DE LA FUENTE MIKE DISALVO
DMV Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DINA CATALDI
Courthouse Security Officer . . . . . . . . . . PAUL DIPAOLA
New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby . . . . . JASON KRAVITS County Clerk . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . PETER JAY FERNANDEZ Court Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . LAWRENCE LERITZ Bureau Headquarters Staff . . . . . . . . . . PETER
BENSON LEROY MCCLAIN
BRIT WHITTLE WAYNE SCOTT MILLER LORENZO PISONI BART WILDER Stunt Coordinator .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.A. AGUILAR “David” Stunt Double . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .AARON VEXLER Stunt Performers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .JILL BROWN ACQUI CARRERA OHN CENATIEMPO SE CORRIGAN IAM COTE
KRUSCHWITZ HEN POPE Choreographer and Dance Coach for Ms. Blunt . . . . . . . .
BENOIT-SWAN POUFFER “Elise” Dance Double . . . . . . . . . . . . ACACIA
SCHACHTE Cedar Lake Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JUBAL BATTISTI JON
BOND SOOJIN CHOI NICKEMIL CONCEPCION GWYNENN TAYLOR JONES JASON KITTELBERGER
ANA-MARIA LUCACIU OSCAR RAMOS MATTHEW RICH HARUMI TERAYAMA MANUEL VIGNOULLE
EBONY WILLIAMS GOLAN YOSEF “David” Stand-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.JOHNNY CICCO “Elise” Stand-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . GABRIELLE STERBENZ
CREW
Directed by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GEORGE
NOLFI Screenplay by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE NOLFI
Based Upon the Short Story “Adjustment Team” by . . . . .
PHILIP K. DICK Produced by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.MICHAEL HACKETT
GEORGE NOLFI BILL
CARRARO CHRIS MOORE Executive Producers . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISA DICK
HACKETT JONATHAN GORDON Director of Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOHN
TOLL ASC Production Designer . . . . . . . . .
. . . . KEVIN THOMPSON Edited by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAY
RABINOWITZ ACE Music by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .THOMAS NEWMAN Co-Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .JOEL VIERTEL Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ERIC
KRIPKE Visual Effects Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK RUSSELL Costume
Designer . . . . . . . . KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE Casting by . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .AMANDA MACKEY & CATHY SANDRICH GELFOND Unit Production
Manager/Co-Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL BEDERMAN Unit
Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL CARRARO First Assistant
Director . . . . . . . . STEPHEN X. APICELLA Second Assistant Director . . . . .
. . . . . . JUSTIN RITSON Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.STEPHEN CARTER Set Decorator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUSAN BODE TYSON
Property Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANN MILLER
Assistant Art Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DEB JENSEN KYUNG W.
CHANG PAUL GELINAS NITHYA SHRINIVASAN Assistant Set Decorator . . . . . . JENNY
ALEX NICKASON Assistant Property Master . . . . . . KATHLEEN M. DOLAN Props . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CATHERINE MILLER COURTNEY SCHMIDT
Art Department Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEN CRAM Leadman .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRUCE GROSS Second Set Dresser .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .JASON A. BROWN On-Set Dresser . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .ROBIN KOENIG Set Dressers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .PETER ANSEL LOIS CIGANEK-BERNINI MATT GAMIELLO JAMES KENT JUSTIN LABREAK
MICHAEL LEATHER ANTHONY O.H. NAVARRO ZACHARY SELTER BEN WEPMAN JAMES WHELAN
Lead Greensman . . . . . . . . . . . . LAWRENCE AMANUEL Art Department
Coordinator . . . . . . . . . LEANN MURPHY Graphic Designer . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . KEVIN RAPER “A” Camera Operator . . . . . . . . . . BRUCE MACCALLUM “B” Camera/Steadicam Operator .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHEN CONSENTINO First Assistant “A”
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS TOLL First Assistant “B” Camera . . . . .
. . . . . . . TIM METIVIER Second Assistant “A” Camera . . . . . . . . . JOHN
OLIVERI Second Assistant “B” Camera . . . . . . . DENNY KORTZE Loader . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HAMILTON LONGYEAR Production Sound Mixer . . . . .
. . DANNY MICHAEL CAS Boom
Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KIRA SMITH Utility Sound
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ADAM SANCHEZ Video Assist . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NILS JOHNSON Chief Lighting Technicians . . . .
. . . . . . JIM PLANNETTE BILL ALMEIDA Best Boy Electrician . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . .PETER RUSSELL Electrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .MIKE BICKNELL SAM FRIEDMAN JOHN O’MALLEY MICHAEL PAPADOPOULOS NOAH PRINCE
JIM GALVIN DARRIN SMITH MARK VAN ROSSEN Rigging Gaffer . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .CLAY LIVERSIDGE Rigging Best Boy Electrician . . . . . . . . JEFFREY
EPLETT Rigging Electricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID ANDERSON KELLY
BEATON JOHN BILLECI RAYMOND FLYNN ABIGAIL IVERSON KURT LENNIG JOHN SCHWARTZ
Shop Electricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PETER MCENTYRE BILL MOORE
In Fond Memory of . . . . . . WILLIAM “KLANCY” LOUTHE
Key Grip . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MITCH LILLIAN Best Boy Grip . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PAUL CANDRILLI “A” Dolly Grip . . . . . . . . .
. . .LUIS “RICK” MARROQUIN “B” Dolly Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .KEVIN LOWRY Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANDREW
CHEUNG DANA S. HOOK MARCEL CIUREA SHAHEN GUIRAGOSSIAN JOHN GATLAND SEAN O’BRIEN
ERIC GEARITY ERIC ULRICH Key Rigging Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.JIM BONIECE Rigging Best Boy Grip . . . . . . . . . . MONIQUE MITCHELL Rigging
Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOHN J. HERRON Key Stage Rigging
Grip . . . . . . . . . . . .MIKE MCFADDEN Special Effects Coordinator . . . . . . . . STEVE
KIRSHOFF Special Effects Foremen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARK BERO WILFRED
CABAN Special Effects Shop Technician . . . . . . . . FRANK OLIVA Special
Effects Technicians . . . . . . . . . . DEVIN MAGGIO ROY SAVOY Assistant
Costume Designer . . . . . . . . SUSANA GILBOE Costume Supervisor . . . . . . .
. . . . . DAVID DAVENPORT Costume Shop Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . .JONI
M. HUTH Milliner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SCOTT COPPOCK
Key Set Costumer . . . . . . . . . . . .NICOLE GREENBAUM Set Costumers . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MEGAN ASBEE GERALD CRAWFORD Mr. Damon’s Costumer
. . . . . . . . . . . . BARNABY SMITH Costume Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .ALEX BOVAIRD Hair Department Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KAY
GEORGIOU Key Hairstylist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JASEN JOSEPH SICA Makeup
Department Head . . . . . . . . . . EVELYNE NORAZ Key Makeup Artist . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .LOUISE MCCARTHY Mr.
Damon’s Makeup Artist . . . . . CHRISSIE BEVERIDGE Script Supervisor . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARY BAILEY Post-Production Supervisor . . . . .
. . . . JENNIFER LANE
VFX Editor & First Assistant Editor . . . . . PERRI PIVOVAR Second
Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE SELEMON Apprentice Editor . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .NICK ELLSBERG Post-Production Coordinator . . . . . .
. LESLIE BAUTSCH Visual Effects Coordinator . . . . . . . . BRYAN WENGROFF
Supervising Sound Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT HEIN DAVE PATERSON
Re-recording Mixers . . . . . . . . . ROBERTO FERNANDEZ DAVE PATERSON ROBERT
HEIN Re-recorded at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOUND ONE CORP. Dialogue
Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARY ELLEN PORTO ADR Editor . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRIAN BOWLES FX Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .DAMIAN VOLPE GLENFIELD PAYNE Foley Editor . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .RACHEL CHANCEY Supervising Sound Assistant Editor . . . DAVID WAHNON Foley Mixer . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RYAN COLLISON Foley Artist . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAY PECK ADR Group Coordinator . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DANN FINK/LOOPERS UNLIMITED ADR Mixer . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BOBBY JOHANSON Additional ADR Editor . . . . . .
. . . . . . ANNA MACKENZIE
Re-recordist . . . . . . . . . . . . . KRISSOPHER CHEVANNES Music Editors . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BILL BERNSTEIN NIC RATNER Additional Music
Editor . . . . . . . . . JORDAN CORNGOLD Assistant Music Editors . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .MIKE ZAINER KATHERINE MILLER Music Scoring Mixer . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .TOMMY VICARI Orchestra Recorded by . . . . . . . . . . . .
.ARMIN STEINER Orchestrations by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J.A.C.
REDFORD Digital Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LARRY
MAH Music Contractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LESLIE MORRIS Music
Preparation . . . . . . . . REPRISE MUSIC SERVICES Audio Coordination . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . GEORGE DOERING Digital Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .ERNEST LEE Assistant Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SHIN
MIYAZAWA TIM LAUBER Music Recorded at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .THE
VILLAGE Orchestra Recorded at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . THE NEWMAN SCORING STAGE, 20TH CENTURY FOX Music
Mixed at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MSR STUDIOS Instrumental
Soloists . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE DOERING STEVE TAVAGLIONE RICK COX DAN
GRECO MIKE FISHER ZACH DANZIGER Supervising Location Manager . . . . . . . . .
. ROB STRIEM Location Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAMON GORDON
Assistant Location Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . HYO PARK PAUL SINGH
Location Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA CARTER PHILLIP SAXTON
RICHARD BARTHOLOMAY TIM GOLDBERG Location Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . .
JILLIAN DEMMERLE Location Scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CESAR QUINONES
DAN POLLACK SHANE HADEN Production Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . GAVIN
BEHRMAN First Assistant Accountant . . . . . . . THERESA L. MARSH Key Second
Assistant Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATHERINE DEJESUS
Second Assistant Accountant . . . . . . ROB BUSCHGANS Payroll Accountant . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .D’DAN WALTON Construction Accountant . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .TARA GREY Accounting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.HALEY GRANT Post-Production Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . LIZ MODENA,
TREVANNA POST, INC. Production Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KATE
KELLY Assistant Production Coordinator . . . . . . GARY MARTYN Production
Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .QUINCY GOW Second Second Assistant
Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK McDONALD DGA Trainee . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SARAH FAIRCHILD Casting Associate-NY . . . . . .
. . . . . . . JANDIZ ESTRADA Casting Associate-LA . . . . . . . . . . . . .
KATE CALDWELL Background Casting . . . . . . GRANT WILFLEY CASTING Background
Casting Associate . . . . . . MELISSA BRAUN Background Casting Assistant . . .
. . . . . SARA WILFLEY Unit Publicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FRANCES FIORE Still Photographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANDY SCHWARTZ
Assistants to Mr. Nolfi & Mr. Hackett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
KATHARINE WERNER JENNIFER MONTGOMERY Executive Coordinator . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . .ISABEL FREER Assistant to Mr. Carraro . . . . . . . . . . TANYA
BARRINGER Assistant to Mr. Damon . . . . . . . . . . . . . .COLIN O’HARA Mr.
Damon’s Chef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RYAN TOAL Cast Security .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VINNY MARRA Key Set Production
Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . ALEX FINCH Production Assistants . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . ALEX BERARD CRISTAL CALDERON NICK CARRARO ELLA ENGEL-SNOW
JAKE FREEMAN KATE GIMBEL GOLDMAN SANDI GREENBERG DAVID “GUS” GUSTAFSON MICHELLE
HYDE STEVEN LAFFERTY BRONSON LAMB IV NICOLE REAL DAVID SALES Construction
Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . JOSEPH ALFIERI Head Carpenter . . . . . . . .
. . . . . HENRY ANTONACCHIO Shop Craftsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOSEPH
ALFIERI, JR. DAVID FLAIZ MIKE RICH Key Construction Grip . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .MIKE SCAROLA Best Boy Construction Grip . . . . . . . THOMAS J. CLARK
Construction Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RON ENGLER STEVEN
FRATIANNI MARTIN LOWRY Scenic Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALEX
GORODETSKY Scenic Foreman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . QUANG NGUYEN
Camera Scenic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GLEN ALDOUS Scenics . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHARLES SUTER MARIA SUTER Shop Scenics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARIA GORODETSKY Transportation Captain . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL HYDE Transportation Co-Captain . . . . . . . .
BOBBY BUCKMAN Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT
ALBREGA DANNY ALLEN FRANK J. APPEDU III DANIEL BUCKMAN GEORGE COLLINS NICK
COVIELLO JUDE DONNELLY LOU FERRAOLILI RICHARD FIGUERA ANGELO GEREMIA JAMES
GIBLIN KEVIN HARRIGAN FRED HERNDON NOEL LAWLOR STEVIE LEACH LEO LUIZZI ROBERT
MAHER GARY MAHR BERNIE MARTIN ROBERT MORGAN
DANIEL PALMER
GARY PALMER JOSEPH J. PARVIS LUIS RODRIGUEZ MIKE SALAMONE KURT SCHMIEDERER TIM
SEEMAN TOMMY SHAW RONNIE TARTAGLIA GARY VLAOVICH ROBBIE WOODARD Set Medic . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ADAM LEVY Craft Service . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JASON ACEVEDO PETER MARSHARK Craft Service
Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT BOYER Catering by . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TONY KERUM/TONY’S FOOD
SERVICE, INC. Chefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.IVAN KERUM PHI “HERO” LAM Product Placement/Clearances . . . . . . WENDY
COHEN,
PRODUCTION RESOURCES Clearances Provided by . . ACT ONE SCRIPT
CLEARANCE Music Legal and Clearances JILL MEYERS, JILL
MEYERS MUSIC Storyboard Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PATRICK CAMPBELL JOHN F. DAVIS
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects and Titles by . . . . . . . . . .
RHINO-GRAVITY Visual
Effects Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIM RIDER Visual Effects
Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . CARA BUCKLEY Executive Producers . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . KARIN LEVINSON & CAMILLE GEIER Digital Effects Supervisor .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . YUVAL LEVY Lead Digital Modeler/Texture . . . . . . .
. . BRIAN DI NOTO Senior Animators . . . . . . . . . . . . . GORAN OGNJANOVIÇ
SEAN CURRAN R&D TD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.BOAZ LIVNY Lighting TDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JIMMY
SAN GILAD KENAN Lead Digital Match Mover . . . . . . BOGDAN MIHAJLOVIC Digital
Compositors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KYLE CODY & DAVID W.
REYNOLDS Flame Compositors . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL GORENSTEIN MARK CASEY
JOE VITALE Visual Effects Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . CYNTHIA ANGEL Senior
Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ZVIAH ELDAR
Visual Effects by
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BIG FILM DESIGN Visual Effects Supervisor . .
. . . . RANDALL BALSMEYER Lead Compositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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MATT DAMON and EMILY BLUNT
star in the romantic thriller The
Adjustment Bureau.
Are we in charge of our
lives, or are decisions made for us long before we consider them? Do we control
our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate it? Oscar® winner
MATT DAMON (the Bourne series, True Grit) and EMILY BLUNT (The Devil Wears Prada, The Wolfman) star in the romantic
thriller The Adjustment Bureau. In the film, Damon plays
a man who glimpses the future planned for him and realizes he wants something
else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved (Blunt) and defy
the agents of Fate—a mysterious group of men exerting control over their lives.
On the brink of winning a
seat in the U.S. Senate, charismatic politician David Norris (Damon) meets
beautiful, contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Blunt)—a woman unlike any
he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling madly in love with her,
strangers conspire to keep the two apart.
Congressman David Norris (MATT DAMON) greets his
enthusiastic supporters.
David learns he is up against Fate itself—the men of The
Adjustment Bureau—who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent
David and Elise from sharing their lives together. In the face of overwhelming
odds, he must either let her go and accept his predetermined path…or risk
everything to defy Fate and be with her.
Damon and
Blunt are joined in the romantic thriller by an all-star cast that includes
ANTHONY MACKIE (The Hurt
Locker, Eagle Eye) as Harry,
the sympathetic Bureau representative assigned to David’s case; JOHN SLATTERY
(television’s Mad Men, Iron Man 2) as
Richardson, Harry’s agitated and highly driven supervisor; MICHAEL KELLY (Changeling, Dawn of the
Dead) as Charlie
Traynor, David’s campaign manager and lifelong best friend; and TERENCE STAMP (Wanted, Valkyrie) as
Thompson, the head Bureau agent who is called in to resolve the Norris problem
once and for all.
The
Adjustment Bureau is written
and directed for the screen by GEORGE NOLFI (writer of Ocean’s
Twelve, co-writer
of The Bourne
Ultimatum) and is
based upon the short story “Adjustment Team” by PHILIP K. DICK (“Total Recall,”
“Minority Report” and “Blade Runner”).
The accomplished
and talented behind-the-scenes crew includes two-time Oscar®-winning director of photography JOHN TOLL (Legends of
the Fall, Brave heart), production
designer KEVIN THOMPSON (Dupli city, Michael
Clayton), editor JAY
RABINOWITZ (8 Mile, upcoming The Tree of
Life), costume
designer KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE (Ame lia, Capote), visual
effects supervisor MARK RUSSELL
(Hellboy, Minority
Report) and
Grammy-winning composer THOMAS NEWMAN (WALL·E, Revo lutionary
Road).
The Adjustment Bureau is produced by MICHAEL HACKETT (Paycheck), George
Nolfi, BILL CARRARO (The Golden
Compass) and CHRIS
MOORE (Good Will
Hunting). The
executive producers for the film are ISA DICK HACKETT and JONATHAN GORDON (Good Will
Hunting).
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Course Correction:
The Adjustment Begins
George Nolfi was working on another script when his longtime
friend and producing partner, Michael Hackett, brought up Philip K. Dick’s
short story “Adjustment Team” during a phone call. Though he had not yet
secured the rights to the story, Hackett had a solid working relationship with
Dick’s estate and wanted to pursue optioning and developing the project. When
the producer pitched Nolfi the concept of “Fate personified” trying to prevent
a man from being with the woman he loves, Nolfi was intrigued. “He got very
interested very quickly,” recounts Hackett. “In fact, he requested that we meet
that day to talk more.”
Though Dick’s
work can be both prescient and dystopian, the central conceit of “Adjustment
Team”—that Fate is a group of people among us— melded with a love story, struck
Nolfi as an original concept for a film that could dig into some of life’s “big
questions” in a thrilling and compelling way.
Flash forward to Nolfi’s work with Matt Damon on Ocean’s
Twelve; during this
time, he and Hackett pursued the adaptation of what would become The
Adjustment Bureau. They were
certain that they wanted Damon as their lead, and Nolfi began to write the part
of his protagonist with Damon in mind. Observes the writer/director: “Matt’s
the best everyman that we’ve got, and because of that he’s extremely believable
in a love story.”
Damon’s interest was piqued by this tale of a man who stumbles
on a vast, powerful and unseen world that exists on the periphery of our own.
He told the filmmakers that if future drafts looked as good, he would be ready
to join. “George has been a friend and collaborator for a long time,” notes
Damon. “He brought this script to me that he’d written on spec…because he
wanted to direct it. I was a big believer in him and felt he could do it.”
Nolfi took the opportunity to polish the idea before revisiting
the project with Damon during The Bourne Ultimatum, which Nolfi also co-wrote. “I got the script to a place where
I thought it was ready for Matt,” Nolfi says. “Once he said he was interested
in being involved formally…it was a back and forth collaborative process.”
Together, the colleagues had many philosophical conversations about the
material; from these discussions came ideas that Nolfi used to improve the arc
and build out his story.
Damon was
impressed with the manner in which Nolfi expanded Dick’s work and made it
particularly relevant for a modern audience. The performer com mends: “George
was specific about everything—from the look of it to the types of people that
he wanted to cast. He saw what he wanted to do with this piece.”
Since Damon
and Nolfi had both worked previously with producer Chris Moore, they agreed
that he would be a great partner with whom they could navigate the development
of this ambitious project. Of his inter est in joining the team, the producer
comments: “I was interested in George’s take on what control we have over our
own lives. I also loved that the material crosses a number of genres. There are
thriller elements, action and a great love story—as well as a personal crisis
about what you believe in and who are you going to be. All that, plus a huge
action movie about trying to outrun your Fate…that’s what popcorn movies are
supposed to be.”
Contemporary ballet
dancer Elise Sellas (EMILY BLUNT) performs with her company.
– 11 –
For Elise and David, it is love at first sight.
Rounding out the producing team was notable New York City
filmmaker Bill Carraro, whose experience both in development and in physical
production would prove invaluable. The producer, who first partnered with
Nolfi on The Sentinel, worked with
the director for more than a year and mapped out how to physically shoot the
numerous set pieces and locations written into the script as the production
navigated across Manhattan.
Carraro, with
his extensive experience in visual effects, understood that Nolfi required the
effects be seamless in order to work. He says: “We track the men of The
Adjustment Bureau from one environment into another every time they open a
door. That’s apt to throw you into a lot of different locations.” With the core
team in place, the project soon secured funding with Media Rights Capital and
production was set in motion.
The original
character from Dick’s short story is an insurance salesman, but for his
protagonist, Nolfi felt strongly that David Norris should be a politician. For
his main character, Nolfi imagined a charismatic and popular Democratic
congressman from the rough-and-tumble streets of Brooklyn. Producer Hackett
explains this logic: “Picking a poli tician allowed us a character whose
decision can matter to people beyond himself. If he chooses to stay on his
career path, he can actually, under the right circumstances, do great things
for millions of people. This weighs against his own happiness and what’s best
for him as a person.”
Adds producer
Moore, whose partnership with Damon extends back to the Oscar®-winning Good Will Hunting: “David Norris and Matt Damon…that is hard to sep arate. To
some extent, it’s because George wrote the script for Matt.
He is one of
the few guys out there who literally becomes the character.”
At the
beginning of Nolfi’s story, Congressman David Norris boasts a double-digit lead
in the polls during his senatorial campaign. Explains Nolfi of David’s
rock-star appeal: “He’s the youngest con gress man ever elected to the House
of Represen tatives. He’s got an outsized reputation because he’s a big
personality.”
Although
David’s affable nature and straight-shooting demeanor have made him a clear
public favorite, he is, after all, only human. “He has a tendency to mess
things up for himself,” Damon reflects. “He’s a little too honest sometimes…he’s
not quite political enough.” It is just this shortcoming that causes David an
embarrassing incident that costs him his first run for the United States
Senate.
“Due to his
youthful exuberance, he makes a mistake,” says Hackett. “Dig a little deeper,
and someone examining the character might say that he had a subconscious desire
to derail the path he was on so that he could find his real self.” David’s
misstep, which is picked up by the press at the height of his campaign, costs
him his lead in the polls and, eventually, the election. Though the Bourne and Ocean’s films have
women in strong but supporting roles, this is one of the first projects in
which Damon has been cast as the romantic lead and played someone who is
specifically, and fatefully, linked to a lover. As written, David’s love interest
needed to be a woman for whom he would move mountains.
On the eve of
the election, before David is to give his concession speech at The Waldorf
Astoria hotel, he takes a moment to collect himself in the men’s room. Explains
Nolfi: “He’s devastated that he’s lost the election. Not just for himself, but
he feels like he brought all these people along for the ride and let them
down.”
It is in the washroom that he encounters stunning dancer Elise
Sellas, hiding from hotel security after she was found crashing a wedding.
David finds her charming and irresistible, while she recognizes him as the
popular politico who is about to lose the election. He is instantly, and
fatefully, drawn to her and starts to fall head over heels in love…something
The Adjustment Bureau never intended. For the next several years, David will
chase the elusive Elise and try and outwit what the men controlled by Fate have
planned for him. And it could cost him, and her, everything.
So who exactly is this group who manipulates us from a position
of unseen, immutable power? Who are its agents that seem to be nowhere and
everywhere all at once? “They have a bureaucratic system that allows them to
manipulate things in such a way that our lives are subtly adjusted, nudged,
bumped, moved, encouraged, coaxed and cajoled in the direction that they have
determined we should be going in,” sums Hackett. “The Bureau represents a
cipher of all interpretations people may have for ‘the other.’ That other
power, that thing outside yourself that guides your choices. It’s certainly not
accidental that The Adjustment Bureau, distilled to its purest form, echoes a
number of the great belief systems around the world, religious or otherwise.”
Nolfi extrapolates upon his concept of the organization that
drives his tale: “They’re an expression of a higher power, so it’s not like a
government agency that doesn’t want you to do something. They have powers that
go way beyond what the earthly powers of an intelligence organization would be.
They set us on the course that we are supposed to be set onto so we will follow
the grand scheme, or the grand plan. To them they just work at a bureau. They
might as well work in the IRS; they’re just doing their jobs.”
Tempted by Fate:
Cast of the Thriller
The role of
Elise was a far less obvious casting choice than that of the film’s male lead.
Nolfi wanted the character to be a dancer so she could provide a balance to
David’s structured, political world. “For many reasons, a dancer has a
different life than a politician, far less calculating,” the writer/director
elaborates. “You can argue that dance is about the purest expression of free
will. Although alternately, you could say if you’re following a routine or a
choreographed piece, then you don’t have any free will at all. There’s a
complexity in this character that I like.”
(L to R) Bureau
agents Richardson (JOHN SLATTERY) and Harry (ANTHONY MACKIE) warn David to stay
away from Elise.
– 13 –
Harry explains to David how The Adjustment Bureau
works.
Because Elise
is a world-class contemporary ballerina, it was integral to her character, as
well as the plot of the film, that she be an experienced professional. “I had
envisioned the role to be played by somebody who was a professional dancer or
an actress who had many years of ballet training,” offers Nolfi. But as it
turns out, finding the right actress with the appropriate training, as well as
the right chemistry with Damon, was a trickier feat than originally considered.
The
production auditioned hundreds of dancers from around the world, with Nolfi
being present for dozens of the auditions. “We put on tape eight or nine
hundred women, and we found a few good possibilities who were professional
dancers,” he remembers. “But at the end of that process, I went to established
actresses to see how they played the scenes.” When acclaimed performer Emily
Blunt read the script, she instinctively knew a professional actress was needed
for the part. “I called my agent and said this is tricky stuff and an actor
should do it,” says Blunt. “If that love and that relationship doesn’t work,
you don’t have a movie. That’s what I said to George, rather boldly, and he
agreed.”
“In one
meeting, Emily com pletely derailed my plans for casting the role,” admits
Nolfi. “She came in and read with Matt. We filmed the whole thing, and you
could just tell.” After she won the role, Blunt dedicated several months to
vigorous
dance
training for the part. She knew portraying Elise Sellas would be immensely
tough.
Once her
training brought her character’s physicality up to snuff, Blunt found that
bringing the romance to the role of Elise was the fun part. “I thought, ‘Thank
God. Nolfi has written a feisty, strong, layered, complicated girl who can hold
her own. She’s tough, but she’s vulnerable,” Blunt says. “There was a lot to
play with; the dialogue was witty, and the connection they have and how they
fell in love didn’t seem contrived.”
“David and
Elise’s first encounter is unusual. The romance and the spark of the scene is
fought against the backdrop of sinks and toilets,” the performer laughs. “It
sets us up with the situation that you can’t help whom you’re attracted to, and
you certainly can’t help the situations or environments in which you find
yourself attracted to this person.”
David informs
Elise that he has just lost the election, and she unexpectedly inspires him
with genuine words of encouragement. “David’s just about to go make his
concession speech and he’s at a point where he feels like he’s lost it all,”
says Blunt. “My character pumps him up and reinvigorates this passion for what
he does. She encourages a frankness in him, because that’s what she has.”
Damon adds his take on the
encounter: “He’s basically in love with her after a five-minute conversation.
She gives him the idea to be himself in this concession speech, which he does.
And the speech is so popular that he immediately becomes the odds-on favorite
to be the next senator from New York.”
Unbeknownst
to Elise or David, it was not chance that caused their rendezvous that night.
It was a planned meeting, orchestrated by the agents of The Adjustment Bureau
in a cunning, structured move. But they were only intended to meet once.
Producer Moore elaborates on who these men are: “Fate has agents in the world,
and Fate is this force. The idea behind The Bureau is that humans need a little
bit of guidance throughout life to not self-destruct or blow ourselves up.”
For
every human, there is an Adjustment Bureau case officer. David’s case officer,
Harry, has been with David since he was born, helping him reach his potential.
Elise was only needed to come into David’s life at the precise moment when he
was at his lowest to bolster him up to greatness. After that, they were never
meant to meet again. However, when Harry misses a crucial “adjustment” for
David, this sets off a course of events that pits David at odds with his own
Fate.
After
watching his performance opposite Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker, Nolfi pursued actor
Anthony Mackie to take the part of David’s guardian angel. Recounts Moore:
“Anthony is a great story because we were having trouble casting the part of
Harry. George went to the movies one day to see The Hurt Locker. I got a text from him
that night in the theater that read, ‘We’ve got to cast Anthony.’”
The
feeling was mutual. “My manager sent the script to me, and he said, ‘I have
something; you’re never going to believe it,’” remem bers Mackie. “I was
surprised by the depth and clarity of the characters and the way they were
written. I said, ‘If I have to fly to L.A. and meet with George…I don’t care.
Whatever I have to do, I have to play this role.’” Of the character, he adds:
“Harry is a consummate professional, but he has a conscience. That gives you a
great opportunity when it comes to a character.”
John Slattery was brought
onto the production to play Richardson, Harry’s supervisor at The Adjustment
Bureau, who tries to right the chaos that Harry has inadvertently allowed David
to create. “Richardson has been doing this job for a long time, and this is his
red-letter case,” explains Slattery. “A person in his position wants to
establish himself and then move up the line. But then it starts going badly for
Richardson.”
Slattery, best known for
his portrayal of Roger Sterling in AMC’s Mad
Men, was cast after a chance
encounter with Nolfi in Los Angeles. Nolfi, whom Slattery knew through a mutual
friend, asked him to come in and read a few scenes on film as a favor. A few
months later, Nolfi had edited them together and showed Slattery, who thought
it looked fantastic. Once he read the script, he wanted to join the project.
Defying
the plan, David and Elise fall deeper in love.
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Richardson threatens David to stay away from Elise.
When David arrives at his office to share the happy news of reconnecting
with Elise with his former campaign manager (and current business partner),
Charlie Traynor, he stumbles upon Adjustment Bureau agents who are in the
middle of “adjusting” Charlie and fiddling with his memories. David has now
become one of the very few people who have ever seen the way these men operate.
Damon
recounts the pivotal moment: “The Adjustment Bureau is forced to abduct me and
pull me into this bizarre place. Richardson tells me: ‘You’re seeing behind the
curtain right now. You were never supposed to see this, but you have and we’re
going to have to ask you to not ever tell anybody about this…or we’re going to
erase your brain.’”
Once
Richardson discovers that David wasn’t delayed, but actually ran into Elise
again on his way into work, he warns David that if he divulges their secret to
anyone, or pursues Elise any further, David will invite the wrath of The
Bureau. And Richardson gives David no more answers, despite David’s protestations
that he’s fallen for Elise. To play the part of David’s childhood best friend,
Charlie, Nolfi tasked actor Michael Kelly, whose pivotal turn in Dawn of the
Dead launched his
film career. “After I read the script, I called my manager and said, ‘I’ve got
to do this movie,’” says Kelly. “At the audition, I told George, ‘I want to be
a part of this film. I don’t care what part I play.’” For Kelly, the appeal of
the story was its originality. “The fact that you can take a true, beautiful,
romantic story and combine it with all this action and elements of other-worldliness
is just amazing.”
To provide
the film’s on-screen campaign partners with an introduction to a political
mindset, Nolfi had
Damon and
Kelly meet with former congressman Harold Ford to discuss politics at the start
of production.
Recalls Kelly
of the day: “We chatted about politics and what my position was, and Ford gave
us reading material and films to watch, including The War Room, about James
Carville and Bill Clinton’s campaign. He also had me read ‘Counselor,’ written
by Ted Sorensen, who was a big part of Kennedy’s rise.”
Ironically,
much of Charlie’s job is to keep tabs on David and ensure he stays on script.
“As his best friend and political advisor, it’s a difficult job for Charlie,”
explains Kelly. “Because they get so close so often, and over and over, David
does something to derail the campaign.”
To round out The
Adjustment Bureau’s principal
cast, Nolfi cast the legendary Terence Stamp as Thompson—the last resort in the
hierarchy of agents to “adjust” the Norris situation and quash insubordination.
Shares Nolfi: “Thompson has an enormous latitude to change the physical
realities and mess up other people’s lives in order to put David back on track.
Putting David back on track means he cannot have a relationship with Elise. You
look at Terence Stamp, and there’s a certain amount of gravitas that comes with
him.”
Similar to the other
performers, it was Nolfi’s intricate story that attracted Stamp to the
project. “Most actors are suckers for good writing,” remarks Stamp. “If you
send an actor a wonderful script, that’s always a great hook. It was going to
be directed by the writer, which, to me, is always a wonderful thing. Great
writers have a vision of the script, and who better than the writer to direct
it and to manifest that vision?”
Playing
a mystical agent offered a great appeal to the actor. “The members of The
Bureau have been around for a few thousand years,” he shares. “That was unusual
for me to try and give an impression of somebody who has a timeless aspect
about him.”
It would prove impossible to the cast to work on a
romantic thriller about the powerful forces of destiny and Fate without some
reflection upon these factors in their own lives. Stamp sums what many on the
project felt with a touching story. He reflects: “There was something that my
mother said to me very late in her life. I was talking to her once about my
dad—about how she met him and what it was like. She said to me, ‘Well, he
wasn’t what I would have chosen. He wasn’t what I wanted at all, but I couldn’t
help myself.’ I’ve thought about that a lot. Because that’s the destiny, isn’t
it? Where your mind doesn’t want something, but you have to do it anyway.”
The Art of Politics:
Damon as Norris
The production was able to leverage Matt Damon’s celebrity to
further the authenticity of David Norris’ life in The
Adjustment Bureau. During the
shoot, Damon was asked to take part in President Clinton’s Global Initiative.
Recounts Hackett: “We had the idea, and the Clinton people thought it was fine,
that Matt would go in wardrobe as David Norris, who would logically be at this
type of an event. We could get him interacting with President Clinton and other
heads of state.” A skeleton crew, led by cinematographer John Toll, was
granted the security clearances necessary to follow Damon around the event documentary-style,
while producer Moore worked to persuade other world leaders and politicians to
appear in the film as well.
The key crew
even had a fortuitous encounter with President Obama’s advance team at The
Waldorf Astoria hotel during the first week of shooting, and it secured some
bonus technical advice as it prepared to shoot the concession speech scene. Key
learning? Lose a Lucite podium in favor of a more traditional one.
Damon’s
publicity tour stops to promote The Informant! also benefited The Adjustment Bureau. The
Informant! was being
released just as production began, and so Damon’s appearance on The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart became another opportunity to shoot a campaign-stumping scene
for David.
David and Elise run
from the agents of The Bureau.
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The Bureau’s head agent, Thompson (TERENCE STAMP),
offers David a terrible choice.
“The way people react to Matt Damon is not unlike how they would
react to a celebrity politician,” says Hackett. “We used that overlap to our
advantage. He can walk down the streets of New York and people recognize him
and camera phones come out. But that was value for the movie because, again,
they are reacting to Matt Damon, not dissimilar to how we would like them to be
reacting to the character of David Norris.”
Another
aspect of this character that plays well into Damon’s filmic experience is the
physicality of stunts. Much like the tireless athlete Jason Bourne, David
Norris finds himself literally outrunning Fate. “There are a number of
corridors and stairwells, lobbies and elevator banks in this film,” states
production designer Kevin Thompson. As David navigates Manhattan, eluding
agents and eventually making a final dash into the heart of The Bureau itself,
he is running for his life. As an actor who enjoys performing his own stunts,
Damon had athletic ability to spare while playing Norris. But that was
occasionally frustrating to the Ginger Rogers to his Fred Astaire. “Matt’s a
good runner. He’s fast, annoyingly fast,” laughs Emily Blunt, who was forced to
keep up with him while she wore flats for many of her character’s chase scenes
with David.
Perhaps the only element in the film that seems to be a
departure from Damon’s prior acting roles is the love story. “This is the most
romantic lead I’ve ever had,” admits Damon. “It was definitely new territory.”
The Art of Dance:
Training Blunt
From the
beginning of principal photography, Blunt was upfront about her lack of formal
dance training. “I was honest. I’ve never danced in my life,” she says. “I met
George, and I said, ‘I’ll work my ass off for you if you let me do this.’”
The performer
immediately asked to meet with the film’s choreographer, BENOIT-SWAN POUFFER,
from Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, which would become the actual company that
Nolfi wrote into the film’s script.
Founded in
2003 by Nancy Laurie and artistically directed by Pouffer, Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet of New York City has a core group of 16 dancers, and it
emphasizes acquiring and commissioning new works by the world’s most
sought-after, emerging choreographers. With performances often incorporating
multimedia presentations, Cedar Lake is known for its daring, athletic
movements and its integration of ballet into contemporary and popular forms.
When Nolfi
approached Pouffer to have his company involved in the film, Nolfi discussed a
female dancer in the role of Elise. Remembers Pouffer of his earlier conversations
with Nolfi: “I said, ‘Okay, but make sure that it is a dancer because I’ve seen
many movies fail because it’s difficult to show how a dancer is.’ Then a month
later they said, ‘We found the actress: Emily Blunt.’ I said, ‘She’s not a
dancer. What are we going to do?’ But it’s been such a pleasure. Emily came in
full-force, and I felt that she wanted to get the style and the behaviors;
she’s done an amazing job.”
Pouffer’s objective was never to make Blunt a trained dancer. He
felt the best way to approach teaching a non-dancer to perform would be to draw
the parallel to her acting skills. “I was here to explain to her that some
dancing is not necessarily done by dancers. It’s movement and understanding
phrasing and theatricality when you dance,” the choreographer explains. “It’s
like learning dialogue, learning a script.”
In fact, he
used the emotional tones of the screenplay to inform his choreography for
Elise’s numbers. “The solo scene was interesting to work with Emily because
it’s a moment where she’s asking herself some questions,” he says. “She’s going
through something. So we had to, movement-wise, express the step of anxiety.”
Throughout all the training, Blunt was game for the ideas her instructor aimed
to execute through her movements. “Emily’s special,” Pouffer comments. “She’s
strong. She’s not scared.”
Producer Carraro, who had recently worked with Blunt in London
on The Wolfman, was
confident that she had the work ethic and athletic ability to take on the
challenge. Still, the prospect of training to become Elise was ini tially
intimidating for Blunt, who not only had to achieve the pre cision and form of
a professional dancer on screen, but also didn’t want to disappoint the Cedar
Lake professionals whom she would be re pre senting. With Pouffer in
struct ing her on dance and a personal
trainer working her out for hours a day, six days a week, Blunt began an entire
lifestyle overhaul that transformed her body into that of a dancer’s.
“The training
was unreal. I hurt every day. It’s one thing to say, ‘I’ll do it for you,’ but
it’s another thing to actually do it,” Blunt says of her promise to Nolfi. “It
was hell to learn at first, and then it became invigorating, and one of the
biggest, life-expanding experiences I’ve ever had.”
Moore notes
that since Blunt was cast in late July 2009 and the film began shooting in New
York in September, she didn’t have many months to train. Though the performer
did work with body doubles, and films have the luxury of shooting at specific
angles and cutting around talent in postproduction, many of the cast and crew
admit that Blunt rarely relied on visual crutches to express her character in
motion.
Remembers
Nolfi: “Emily came out here a couple months before production and she was
dancing five or six days a week and working out, taking it seriously on the
physical performance level.” The director also stresses that Blunt was not
learning simply standard ballet techniques. “It’s ballet-based contemporary
dance, so it doesn’t look like your mother’s or father’s ballet. It looks like
modern dance, and it is set to modern music; you couldn’t possibly do this
dance without a lot of ballet training.”
David is taught by Harry how to navigate The Bureau’s
world.
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David consults his best friend/campaign manager,
Charlie Traynor (MICHAEL KELLY).
Her co-star agrees with his
director’s assessment. “I’m normally the actor who ends up having to do a
boatload of training for things,” says Damon. “On this one, I just sat back and
watched Emily; she was just so great and utterly believable.”
Bureau Headquarters:
On Location in Manhattan
Aside from
the fact that David Norris is a congressman from the area, New York City
represented much within the context of the film. “New York is central to my
vision of the story for a number of reasons,” Nolfi says. “If there is an
American city that stands for the most powerful city—the city where the
headquarters of Fate would be—it’s got to be New York.
“Aside from
filmmaking, my favorite art forms are architecture and dance,” he continues.
“So by setting it in New York and constructing in my head an Adjustment Bureau
that was a big, massive, tall building—that allowed me to play out my interests
in architecture. Then, Elise allowed me to get into the dance world. Both of
those things are centered, at least in the U.S., in New York City.”
To build the
visual style of The Adjustment Bureau headquarters—a timeless structure that
exudes power—the team leaned on production designer Thompson and location
manager ROB STRIEM to create a pastiche of rooms, roofs, stairwells and façades
from some of New York’s most stylized buildings. Reflects producer Carraro:
“The richness of these practical locations are particularly hard to duplicate,
and
we needed to
access some of New York’s toughest places to gain permission to film.”
“When I first
met with George, he had only a half dozen reference pictures, but they were all
strong imagery of a particular era in New York—moody and graphic,” says
Thompson. “Those images, along with the script, immediately gave me a lot of
information about where he was coming from.”
Specifically,
Nolfi drew inspiration from notable structures throughout history that implied
spiritual weight. “If you think about the history of architecture, Greek
temples or the Vatican, or large-scale buildings in which human beings feel
small, they are suggestive of otherworldly power,” Nolfi explains. “I went out
of my way to pick the most beautiful spaces I could find to suggest that if
they controlled things…this is what that world would look like.”
“The
Adjustment Bureau itself is an amalgamation of different locations,” says
Striem. “I worked with Kevin to piece together rooms and spaces, interiors and
exteriors that are architecturally appropriate but might be on opposite ends of
New York. In the movie they comprise this singular office building. It’s been a
challenge to make it all look correct to the period of architecture and the
nature of the location.”
As he was quite familiar with
New York, Nolfi already had many of the locations in mind, whereas other locales
he happened upon while walking to lunch around the city. If a structure struck
him as beautiful and of a similar style or era to the other buildings he was
considering for his Adjustment Bureau palette, it was marked for scouting.
So what
exactly makes up the palette of the firm? “It’s a lot of white or tan marble,
with dark wood similar to 1910, 1915 New York,” Nolfi clarifies. “It’s not
quite Art Deco, because Art Deco announces itself, like the Chrysler building.
It’s not these heavy baronial giant columns. It’s got this soaring feel that
Art Deco has. But then it has some of the heavier features…Beaux Arts is what
that would be called. We just found a way to mix them.”
“The
physical structure of The Adjustment Bureau is a made-up building that exists
in the middle of Manhattan, and it is a composite of six different great
locations in the city that we cobbled together,” explains Thompson. “We took
the base of a building in Madison Square Park. We took the roof of a building
in Midtown. We took the lower sections of the New York Public Library. We were
in the U.S. Custom House downtown for some of the hallways and stairwells. We
took pieces that all represented the grandness and perfection that was found in
a certain period of architecture in the city, and we married them together.”
Thompson
elaborates on creating the world of The Bureau from existing locations: “Quite
often in the spaces and rooms, we took out the details such as exit signs or
light switches. We wanted to represent the space in its purest form without the
sort of things that have been added in the last few years.”
Based on the sheer number of locations, shooting in
the city proved to be a bit of a behemoth. Says Striem, who has worked on such
recent location-heavy New York projects as Across the Universe, The Interpreter and The Brave One: “There are probably more
locations on this film than any that I have ever done in New York. We had about
85 locations during a 70-day shooting schedule. We were rarely in one place for
any length of time, so this was a para military operation.”
Some of the locations used
for pivotal scenes include the roof of 30 Rockefeller Center, also known as Top
of the Rock; the New York Public Library; the historical Custom House in lower
Manhattan (home to a Native American museum and offices of Homeland Security);
the Waldorf Astoria hotel; 60 Centre Street courthouse; Fort Tryon Park and its
New Leaf Restaurant & Bar; the South Street Seaport neighborhood; the
Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn; the field at Yankee Stadium; the performance
and rehearsal space of the actual Cedar Lake dance company in Chelsea; Madison
Square Park; and the streets of the West Village. Scenes were even filmed on
the Hudson River on a Circle Line ferry that moved up and down alongside
Manhattan’s west side.
David
and Elise make their way into the deepest levels of The Bureau.
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Thompson leads his men into action.
Hackett
appreciated the unfettered access the team was given to some of New York’s most
spectacular landmarks. In fact, for a pinnacle moment in which Elise and David
find themselves on a huge, expansive roof of The Adjustment Bureau, the
production had yet to find a viable location. Nolfi and Hackett happened to be
sightseeing on the roof of 30 Rock with family when they realized they had
found the perfect locale.
“Initially we
were looking for size,” Hackett explains of 30 Rock’s modest roof space. “By
doing the opposite of what we tried to do initially, we found something more
useful and dramatic. The location that we found suggested something that we
weren’t thinking of when we first went through the movie and blocked it out.”
Because so many locations were put together to represent singular areas, much
attention had to be paid to continuity. “George has been diligent about wanting
to be geographically correct,” Striem observes. “Even though the agents are
moving through doors and crossing town, he’s been conscious not to make it
incorrect. We’re not going downtown when we’re supposed to be progressing up town
in pursuit.”
Accomplished cinematographer John Toll was integral to
capturing this unseen magic of the city. “Toll was a crucial piece of the
puzzle for how the film looks,” stresses Moore. “The movie has multiple balls
that are in the air, and the audience is going to need to seamlessly move in
between the action and the love story.”
Beyond the
singular beauty of New York City, however, the story of The
Adjustment Bureau called for
locations and rooms that could not possibly exist in the real world. Though
Nolfi aimed to keep the look as realistic as possible, and rely on actual
footage when he could, there was a point when the production needed to bring in
the special effects. Remarks Hackett: “It’s the forward edge of filmmaking in
terms of what’s done and how. Whether it’s visual effects or real shoots,
miniatures or a combination or composite…there are 15 ways to skin a cat.”
To create the
seemingly impossible Escher-like stairs, hallways and rooms of The Adjustment
Bureau’s main offices, Nolfi relied on Thompson to build new sets, as well as
on visual effects supervisor Mark Russell to create the unimaginable and add on
where needed. Russell’s previous work on another Philip K. Dick-inspired film, Minority
Report, assured
that he was familiar with the author’s unique sensibilities. Because the agents
travel through doorways throughout the city, the art direction crew had to make
sure that how the men moved made sense. “A lot of our concentration and our
construction involved door-ways—like combining this side of this door with that
side of that door,” Russell explains. “Which way does it swing? Which door
exists in reality, and which door do we have to create on a location so that it
will match up with what’s supposed to be on the other side?
“My favorite thing was weaving it all together and making sure
that it feels seamless,” Russell continues. “There are other locations that we
built to look like they’ve always been there. Those are the things I’m most
proud of…when they disappear into the tapestry of the movie.”
Many times
the perfect visual location had layout issues that would impede the narrative
of the scene. For example, though the roof of 30 Rock provided the perfect
expanse for the climatic scene with David and Elise, reaching the top of this
building after a stairwell chase could not be done at 30 Rock.
“We built a
stairway that’s on top of The Adjustment Bureau,” Thompson explains, “with a
big green screen around it. Then we took sections of that and put it on the roof
of our building on which we shot the climatic scene. So, a lot of the
construction we did was to tie in different locations to one another, supported
by visual effects.”
Perhaps the
greatest feat for both Thompson and Russell was creating the Plan Room, the
library of The Adjustment Bureau. In the story, this library exists on the 90th floor of the fictional New York building. But a room in The
Adjustment Bureau head quarters cannot be understood logically through the
lens of a human eye. Much like the roof-staircase trick, Russell and Thompson
needed to create an infinite library. This needed to be comprised from only
one shot of an empty room at 20 Exchange Place in New York that was chosen for
inspiration. It also needed to work within the context of a chase scene in
which Elise and David are running from agents.
The intended effect of playing
visual tricks on the characters, as well as on the audience, is to build the
scope of The Adjustment Bureau beyond human comprehension. “The idea is that
this is one section of a large room. We only had one section to actually
shoot,” explains Russell of the book-filled space that the crew replicated ad
infinitum. “It’s 13 setups essen tially, from different angles and different
pieces that ultimately come together to make the Plan Room,” he continues.
“This is a fast sequence, but it seems much more elaborate than it is.”
The Suit Makes the
Man:
Wardrobe of the Film
To complement
the carefully selected architecture within the world of The
Adjustment Bureau, Nolfi knew
that the agents’ wardrobe should also visually set them apart from humans…without
drawing too much attention to their presence. The director decided to express
this mystical notion with the most unassuming of apparel: timeless suits and
hats.
Elise and David try to
escape the agents on their heels.
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Writer/director/producer
GEORGE NOLFI on the set of The Adjustment Bureau.
In theory, agents of The Adjustment Bureau dress in clothing
similar to the outfits worn by the humans that they shadow. Because David
Norris is a well-heeled politician, the agents in his life mirror his more
formal attire.
“The idea was to have
great-looking suits and hats, but not to have them indicate any one specific
time period,” says Hackett. “It could be ’40s, it could be ’30s and it could be
today. There’s something retro but also modern about them. It’s evocative and
adds to their otherworldly element without having them be exaggerated angels or
demons with nonanthropo morphic bodies.”
The powers of The
Adjustment Bureau are a clever function that Nolfi instilled into his visual symbols:
the ability of agents to travel through the fabric of the city under the radar
and to adjust humans. “In order to use their higher powers, agents have to have
a hat on,” Nolfi says. “Inside all the hats there is a power ranking; the
higher-up executives have hats that allow them to use more power to influence
humans.
“It also fits nicely with
the architectural palette of the movie because there’s this morphed
combination of early 1900s New York architecture,” Nolfi adds. “In that period
in men’s dress, all men wore hats.”
To bring the director’s
vision of crisp, timeless suits and stylish, yet unassuming hats to life,
costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone was tapped to cull the looks from a much
more dapper time. As Walicka Maimone remembers, few words were spoken between
her and Nolfi
when they first met, as
they simply browsed and selected images from her inspiration boards, coming
together on a vision for the costumes.
“I had plenty of
photographs, so we could both find our visual language just by responding to
those images. That’s how we started building the vocabulary for the film,” she
explains. “George was interested in portraying reality as it is—close to
reality. All the characters were not completely real, but they had to be rooted
in reality.”
For a timeless look that
could be pulled off in the modern day, they began looking at 20th-century
styles. “We looked at a lot of references from period clothing, beginning at
about 1910, when men’s contemporary clothing language was invented. All the
suits are trim in fit, and we created this quiet palette of grays and dark
greens, with streamlined silhouettes. We felt that for The Adjustment Bureau,
all the guys needed to have that function of being able to blend in among the
street crowd.” For the suits to conform with the hats’ nod to a higher power,
Nolfi and Walicka Maimone considered what touches they could add. “We kept
thinking, ‘What is the color that calls for all the powers that The Bureau is
supposed to represent?’ Intuitively, I thought it needed to be green, and that
green needs to trickle down all through The Adjustment Bureau. It needed to
stay within that quiet palette.”
However, the look of the
agents also has an ominous and militaristic feel. Just as when one visits the
inside of The Bureau, there is a clear, regimented order to how they operate.
“The leading vocabulary for us was that The Adjustment Bureau has a military
elegance: it’s a streamlined, clean-lined; everything is pressed and strict,”
Walicka Maimone explains. “As George referred many times, there is an
underlying military-like structure in The Adjustment Bureau, and the ranks are
clear.”
The
costume team spent weeks researching uniforms of military forces from
throughout history to find subtle inspiration for the agents’ outfits, as well
as for the more intimidating Intervention Team of The Bureau. “We knew that we
were not going to be in the world of suits with the Intervention Team, because
it would take us out of the vocabulary of the film of what needed to feel
immediate and instantaneously threatening,” Walicka Maimone elaborates.
To
customize each agent’s suit, she used material details such as scarves and
handkerchiefs. The team also took care to distress each individual agent’s hat
to give the appearance of a well-worn fedora that has withstood the test of
time. The designer reflects: “There is the humanity factor that comes into each
of the characters. So each character has slightly different versions of the
outfit.”
For
the characters of David and Elise, Walicka Maimone developed wardrobes inspired
by their professions. In her mind, American poli ti cians have their own
uniform: “It was a clear vocabulary that we created for the world of David and
the politicians around him: a dark navy suit with a solid tie, a con servative and classic suit. Navy blues,
blues and khakis—that became the world of David.”
Elise, however, comes from
the opposite end of movement and expression. “She needed to have this dramatic
contrast to the word of the politicians, of their super-structured uniform
look,” the designer explains. To accentuate Elise’s fun and free attitude,
Walicka Maimone relied on vintage dresses with modern touches and added
additional expression through color.
To create Elise’s costumes
for her dance pieces, Walicka Maimone worked directly with the Cedar Lake
company. The opportunity was exciting for the designer, who views Cedar Lake as
“rebels of the ballet world,” with an urban, street sensibility to their style.
“That process was fun because we knew that we wanted to acknowledge the
vocabulary of that con temporary dance company,” says Walicka Maimone. “We
collaborated with Swan and with George to create this flow, but at the same
time, hard-edge, modern, sculptural look for the company.”
****
Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital Present A Gambit Pictures
Production—In Asso cia
(L to R) Writer/director/producer GEORGE
NOLFI, MATT DAMON as David Norris and EMILY BLUNT as Elise Sellas on set.
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tion with Electric Shepherd Productions—A Film by George Nolfi:
Matt Damon in The
Adjustment Bureau, starring
Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly and Terence Stamp.
Casting is by Amanda Mackey & Cathy Sandrich Gelfond. The visual effects
supervisor is Mark Russell, and the costume designer is Kasia Walicka Maimone. The
Adjustment Bureau’s associate
producer is Eric Kripke, and its co-producer is Joel Viertel. The romantic
thriller’s music is by Thomas Newman, and its editor is Jay Rabinowitz, ACE.
The production designer is Kevin Thompson, and the director of photography is
John Toll, ASC. The
Adjustment Bureau’s executive
producers are Isa Dick Hackett, Jonathan Gordon. The producers are Michael
Hackett, George Nolfi, Bill Carraro, Chris Moore. It is based upon the short
story “Adjustment Team” by Philip K. Dick. The film’s screenplay is by George
Nolfi, and it is directed by George Nolfi. ©2010 Universal Studios. www.theadjustmentbureau.com
ABOUT THE CAST
MATT DAMON (David
Norris) has been honored for his work on both sides of the camera, most
recently earning Academy Award®, Screen
Actors Guild Award and Critics’ Choice Movie Award nominations for Best
Supporting Actor for his portrayal of South African rugby hero François
Pienaar, in Clint Eastwood’s true-life drama Invictus. In
addition, he garnered dual Golden Globe Award nominations last year: one for
Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Invictus, and one for
Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for his starring role in Stephen Soderbergh’s The
Informant! Earlier in
his career, Damon won an Academy Award® for Best
Original Screenplay and received an Oscar® nomination for Best Actor, both for his breakthrough feature Good Will
Hunting.
Damon is currently starring in
the Coen brothers’ remake of the classic Western True Grit and has a
number of upcoming projects this year. He lends his voice to Happy Feet
2 and
reunites with Soderbergh to join the ensemble cast of the thriller Contagion. He is
currently filming We Bought
a Zoo, for
director Cameron Crowe.
In 2002, Damon originated
the role of Jason Bourne in the blockbuster actioner The Bourne Identity. He went on to reprise his
role in the two hit sequels, The
Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, both directed by Paul
Greengrass. He also repeatedly teamed with Soderbergh as part of the all-star
casts in the Ocean’s trilogy, and in a cameo
role in the second part of the director’s two-part biopic Che.
Damon’s other recent film credits include the
drama Hereafter, which
reunited him with director Clint Eastwood; the action-thriller Green Zone, directed
by Paul Greengrass; Martin Scorsese’s Oscar®-winning Best Picture The Departed, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg;
Robert DeNiro’s dramatic thriller The Good Shepherd, with DeNiro and Angelina Jolie; and Stephen Gaghan’s
geopolitical thriller Syriana, with
George Clooney.
For the small screen, Damon
both executive produced and appeared in the History Channel’s The People Speak, based on a book
co-written by famed historian Howard Zinn, which featured dramatic readings
and performances from some of the most famous names in the entertainment
industry.
Hailing from Boston, Damon
attended Harvard University and gained his first acting experience with the
American Repertory Theater. He made his feature film debut in Mystic Pizza, followed by roles in School Ties, Walter Hill’s Geronimo: An American
Legend and the cable projects Rising Son and Tommy Lee Jones’ The Good Old Boys. He first gained attention
in 1996 with his portrayal of a guilt-ridden Gulf War veteran tormented by
memories of a battlefield incident in Courage
Under Fire.
Together with his lifelong
friend Ben Affleck, Damon co-wrote the acclaimed 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which they won an
Academy Award® and
a Golden Globe Award, as well as several critics’ groups awards, for Best
Original Screenplay. Damon also garnered Oscar®,
Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor. Also in 1997,
Damon starred as an idealistic young attorney in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker and made a cameo appearance
in Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy.
The following
year, Damon played the title role in Steven Spielberg’s award-winning World War
II-drama Saving
Private Ryan and also
starred in John Dahl’s drama Rounders, with Edward Norton. In 1999, Damon earned his third Golden
Globe nomination for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley, under the direction of Anthony Minghella. He also reunited
with Ben Affleck and director Kevin Smith to star in the controversial comedy Dogma.
Damon’s
subsequent film credits include starring roles in Robert Redford’s The Legend of
Bagger Vance; Billy Bob
Thornton’s All the
Pretty Horses; the
Farrelly brothers’ comedy Stuck on You, opposite Greg Kinnear; and Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers
Grimm, with Heath
Ledger; and a cameo appearance in George Clooney’s Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind.
Damon and
Affleck formed the production company LivePlanet to produce film, television
and new-media projects. LivePlanet produced three Emmynominated seasons of Project
Greenlight, chronicling
the making of independent films by first-time writers and directors. The Project
Greenlight films
produced to date are Stolen Summer, The Battle of
Shaker Heights and Feast. LivePlanet
also produced the documentary Running the Sahara, directed by Oscar® winner James
Moll.
In addition,
Damon cofounded H20 Africa, now known as Water.org, and is an ambassador for
the children’s foundation ONEXONE.
EMILY BLUNT (Elise
Sellas) shot to international prominence with her lead role in the
multi-award-winning British movie My Summer of Love, filmed in the summer of 2003. Blunt played the mysterious and
privileged Tamsin, who becomes the obsession of a local girl, in this intoxi cating
romance from Pawel Pawlikowski. The Independent praised her “genuine grace and predatory charisma.” Blunt won
the Most Promising Newcomer award at the
2005 Evening Standard British Film Awards and was nominated
in the Best Newcomer category at the 2004 British Independent Film Awards.
The critically acclaimed Gideon’s Daughter, in which Blunt starred
alongside Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, was shot in October 2004. The film
was first broadcast on BBC One in February 2006 and appeared on BBC America in
April of the same year. Blunt won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an
Actress in a Supporting Role, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
for her performance.
In 2005, Blunt flew to New
York to start work on The Devil Wears Prada. An adaptation of the
hugely popular Lauren Weisberger novel, the film features Blunt as the
intensely neurotic Emily Chalton, senior assistant at Runway Magazine, who is permanently on the
verge of a nervous breakdown. Directed by David Frankel and co-starring Anne
Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, the film opened to great acclaim in
the U.S. in June 2006 and made more than $125 million at the U.S. box office.
The critics shared the
audience’s love for The Devil Wears Prada and for Blunt: The Los Angeles Times called her “scene-stealing”
while the Telegraph praised her performance as
“terrific” and “a catty delight.” Blunt was nominated in the Breakout Female
category at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards for her performance and was also
nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Golden Globes and the
BAFTAs for the role. The movie was released worldwide in October 2006 and made
more than $320 million at the box office. Blunt went on to be nominated for
the Rising Star Award at the 2007 BAFTAs.
In August 2006, Blunt
started work on The Great Buck Howard, written and directed by
Sean McGinly and co-starring Tom Hanks, John Malkovich and Colin Hanks. Blunt
plays Valerie, a self-assured publicist hired by a luckless magician trying to
reinvigorate his career. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
and was released in the U.S.
in March 2009. Following
this, Blunt filmed Dan in Real Life, with Steve Carell,
Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook. It was released in the U.S. on October 26,
2007, and in the U.K. on January 11, 2008.
Blunt went on to make The Jane Austen Book Club. She starred alongside
Maria Bello, Kevin Zegers and Hugh Dancy. The film was released in the
U.S. on September 21, 2007,
followed by a U.K. release on November 16, 2007.
Blunt next spent two months
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, filming Sunshine
Cleaning. The film was directed by
Christine Jeffs and tells the story of two sisters (Blunt and Amy Adams) who
start up a successful business cleaning up crime scenes. It was released in the
U.S. in March 2009. Blunt was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Movie Award for
Best Supporting Actress for the role.
In late 2007, Blunt was
seen in Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, with Tom Hanks, Julia
Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film was released in the U.S. in
December 2007.
Blunt next filmed the
Martin Scorsese-produced biopic The
Young Victoria. She plays Britain’s Queen
Victoria in the early stages of her life, and the film is written by Julian
Fellowes and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The cast also includes Miranda
Richardson, Jim Broadbent and Rupert Friend. The film was released in the U.K.
in March 2009, earning Blunt high praise from
U.K. film critics. Wendy
Ide at The Times wrote, “Rising star Emily
Blunt plays the cloistered young monarch with a playfulness and a lively
spirit.” Blunt received Golden Globe Award and Critics’ Choice Movie Award
nominations for Best Actress for her performance.
In February 2010, Blunt was
seen in the much-anticipated period thriller The Wolfman. Directed by Joe Johnston, Blunt starred
opposite Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, and played the female lead role,
Gwen Conliffe, a woman mourning the death of her husband who becomes close to
his brother as they hunt the werewolf that killed him.
Next, Blunt voiced the female lead role of Juliet
in Disney’s 3D animation Gnomeo & Juliet, with James McAvoy voicing Gnomeo. The film is an animated
retelling of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” using gnomes. Directed
by Kelly Asbury, the film’s soundtrack is written and produced by Elton John.
It will be released internationally by E1 Entertainment and is scheduled for
release in the U.K. and U.S. on February 11, 2011.
In December 2010, Blunt was
seen playing Princess Mary in a retelling of Jonathan Swift’s iconic novel,
“Gulliver’s Travels.” Blunt starred along side Jack Black and Jason Segel in
the film, which follows the modern-day adventures of travel writer Lemuel
Gulliver.
In early 2010, Blunt filmed
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
in London, Scotland and
Morocco. She costars, opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, Ewan McGregor and Amr
Waked, in this remake of Paul Torday’s bestselling novel, telling the story of
Dr. Alfred Jones (McGregor), a fisheries scientist, who finds himself
reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of
the Yemen. Blunt plays Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, the representative of flyfishing-obsessed
sheikh (Waked). The film is directed by Lasse Hallström and slated for release
in 2012.
In October 2010, Blunt was
cast in Lynn Shelton’s as-yet-untitled project. The cast also includes Rachel
Weisz and Mark Duplass. Blunt and Weisz play sisters who fight over Duplass.
The film is being shot in Washington and will be released in 2011.
Also in October 2010, Blunt
was cast as the female lead in the time-travel thriller Looper. The film is centered on a
group of killers who send bodies of their victims back in time. Blunt will play
a single mother forced to go to great lengths to protect her son. Her co-stars
are Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with Rian Johnson directing. It is
sched uled to begin production in Louisiana in January and slated for a late
2011 release.
Blunt recently joined the
cast of Disney’s The Muppets. Ricky Gervais, Alan
Arkin, Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Zach Galifianakis and Jean-Claude Van Damme,
are also lending their voices to the latest installment, which sees the Muppets
reunite to put on a show in order to save their movie studio from a developer.
James Bobin is directing and the script was written by Jason Segel and Nicholas
Stoller. The film is due for release in the U.S. in December 2011 and the U.K.
in February 2012.
ANTHONY MACKIE (Harry), who was classi
cally
trained at the Juilliard School of Drama, is a great
and talented young actor
who
is able to capture a
plethora
of characters.
Mackie was discovered
after receiving rave reviews
while playing Tupac Shakur
in
the off-Broadway show Up
Against the Wind. Immed iately following
that show, Mackie made an auspicious film debut as Eminem’s nemesis, Papa Doc,
in Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile. His performance caught
the attention of Spike Lee, who subsequently cast Mackie in the 2004 Toronto
International Film Festival Masters Program selection Sucker Free City and She Hate Me. He also appeared in Clint
Eastwood’s Academy Award®-winning Million Dollar Baby, opposite Hilary Swank,
Morgan Freeman and Eastwood; in Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate, alongside Denzel
Washington and Liev Schreiber; and in the comedy The Man, starring Samuel L.
Jackson.
Mackie earned
Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nominations for his performance in
Rodney Evans’ Brother to
Brother, which won
the 2004 Special Dramatic Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was
nominated for Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2005, he
appeared opposite David Strathairn, Timothy Hutton and Leelee Sobieski in Heavens Fall, an
independent feature based on the historic Scottsboro Boys trials, which
premiered at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival in Austin.
In 2006, Mackie had five features on movie screens. In addition
to We Are
Marshall, he starred
in Half Nelson, with Ryan
Gosling, which was adapted from director Ryan Fleck’s Sundance-winning short Gowanus,
Brooklyn; in Preston
A. Whitmore’s Crossover; in Frank E.
Flowers ensemble crime drama Haven, opposite
Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton; and in the film adaptation of Richard Price’s
“Freedomland,” starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Throughout
his film career, Mackie has been seen in several theatrical performances both
on and off-Broadway. Mackie made his Broadway debut as the stuttering nephew,
Sylvester, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s
Black Bottom. He was next
seen as the lead in Regina King’s modern retelling of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull; starred in
Stephen Belber’s McReele, for the
Roundabout Theatre Company; and starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier’s
Play in a role
made famous by Denzel Washington 20 years prior. In 2008, Mackie was part of
the production of August
Wilson’s 20th Century: The Kennedy Center, in which
the cast performed stage readings of all 10 plays in August Wilson’s cycle.
Mackie participated in three of the 10 shows.
In 2009,
Mackie was seen as Sgt. JT Sanborn in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt
Locker, a film that
not only earned Mackie a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination but also
earned Academy Awards® for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in
Directing, Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and three other nods. The year
2009 also saw Mackie revisit the role of Tupac Shakur in Fox Searchlight’s
Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious, and he also starred as Maj. William Bowman in the DreamWorks
film Eagle Eye.
In 2010,
Mackie returned to Broadway and starred in Martin McDonagh’s latest creation, A Behanding
in Spokane. He also
reunited with Kerry Washington in the drama Night Catches Us, which was
released by Magnolia Pictures on December 3, 2010.
Mackie
recently wrapped filming the Disney/ DreamWorks production Real Steel, with Hugh
Jackman. The film is set for release on November 18, 2011. Mackie is currently
filming the Summit Entertainment feature Man on a Ledge, with Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks, in New York City.
JOHN SLATTERY (Richardson) is a respected actor in the Hollywood com munity
and a veteran of television, film and stage.
In 2010, Slattery was nom i nated for his
third Emmy Award for Outstanding Sup porting Actor in a Drama Series for his
portrayal of Roger Sterling in the critically acclaimed AMC series Mad Men. In 2009,
the show was nominated for a Television Critics Association (TCA) Award for
Program of the Year and won the TCA Award for Outstanding Achieve ment in
Drama. The show was also nominated for the latter award in 2010. It was also
the first basic-cable program to win Outstanding Drama Series at the 2008
Primetime Emmy Awards, and was nominated for a 2010 Golden Globe for Best
Television Series—Drama.
Slattery
recently completed production on Liza Johnson’s Return, in which he
stars as a war veteran who befriends a mother and wife after returning from
combat. Linda Cardellini and Michael Shannon also star in the film produced by
2.1 Films and Meredith Vieira Productions.
Slattery has
previously appeared in numerous films including Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, Clint
Eastwood’s
Flags of Our Fathers, Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War and Terry George’s Reservation Road.
His additional film credits
include Mona Lisa Smile, opposite Julia Roberts
for director Mike Newell, Thomas McCarthy’s The Station Agent, Joel Schumacher’s Bad Company and Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic.
Slattery is instantly
recognizable from his roles on television as well. Most recently, in addition
to costarring for four seasons on Mad
Men, he had a substantial
story arc as Victor Lang on the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives. In 2007, Slattery was
nominated as part of both shows’ ensemble cast for the Screen Actors Guild
Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble.
His additional television
credits include the ABC series Homefront, the comedy series Ed, HBO’s K Street and the drama Jack & Bobby. He has also been seen in
highly memorable guest appearances on Sex
and the City and Will & Grace.
In theater, Slattery has
appeared on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, for which he was
nominated for a Drama League Award; in the Broadway revival of Betrayal; and opposite Nathan Lane
in Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor. His off-Broadway credits
include the original production of Three
Days of Rain, which earned him a Los
Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination.
Slattery is a Boston native
who currently resides in New York City with his wife and son.
MICHAEL KELLY (Charlie Traynor) has an
expansive list of film, television and theater credits spanning over 10
years. Kelly is currently wrapping production on CBS’ new Criminal Minds spin off, Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behavior. Kelly stars as Jonathan
“Prophet” Simms, a former prisoner who served seven years for drug trafficking.
With an all-star cast that includes Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo, Criminal Minds: Suspect
Behavior premieres on CBS at 10 p.m.
beginning February 16, 2011.
Kelly was most recently
seen in Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman
and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. The film was released on November 5,
2010, and has garnered critical acclaim. Kelly portrays Jack McAllister, a CIA
agent who works closely alongside Watt’s character in the true story of Joe
Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame.
In 2010, Kelly was seen in
F. Gary Gray’s Law Abiding Citizen, alongside Gerard Butler
and Jamie Foxx, as well as the Marc Lawrence film Did You Hear About the
Morgans?, starring opposite Hugh
Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker. Kelly previously starred as Detective Lester
Ybarra, opposite Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, which premiered at the
Cannes Film Festival and was distributed by Universal Pictures and Imagine
Entertainment. For his performance, Kelly received a coveted spot as one of Variety’s “10 Actors to Watch.”
Kelly’s other
feature film credits include Invincible, opposite Mark Wahlberg; the Universal blockbuster Dawn of the
Dead, directed by
Zack Snyder; Tenderness, starring
Russell Crowe; The Narrows, directed by
François Velle; Broken
English, written and
directed by Zoe R. Cassavetes and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the
2007 Sundance Film Festival; and Loggerheads, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival. Kelly also appeared in M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Milos
Forman’s Man on the
Moon and River Red (Sundance
Film Festival).
On television, Kelly most recently played John Mosley on Fringe. In 2008,
Kelly starred in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, which chronicled one marine’s journey in the American-led
assault on Baghdad in 2003. Kelly also had the recurring role of FBI Agent Ron
Goddard on The Sopranos and was a
series regular on the USA Network television series Kojak, with Ving
Rhames and Chazz Palminteri, and the UPN action-drama Level 9. He has also
guest-starred on numerous hit television shows including Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit, Law &
Order, CSI: Miami, The Shield, Judging Amy, The Jury and Third Watch.
A lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Kelly has performed in
such plays as Arthur Penn’s production of Major Crimes, Theatre
Studio’s Miss Julie and a
production of In Search of
Strindberg staged in
Stockholm, Sweden.
TERENCE STAMP
(Thompson)
was born in Bow, London. His motion picture debut was the title role in Peter
Ustinov’s 1962 film adaptation of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” which brought
him an Academy Award® nomination and international attention. After his success in Billy Budd, Stamp
collaborated with some of cinema’s most revered filmmakers. He starred in
William Wyler’s adaptation of John Fowles’ “The Collector,” opposite Samantha
Eggar, and in Modesty
Blaise, for
director Joseph Losey and
producer
Joseph Janni. Stamp reteamed with producer Janni for two more projects: John
Schlesinger’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd,”
starring Julie Christie, and Ken Loach’s first feature film, Poor Cow.
Stamp then
journeyed to Italy to star in Federico Fellini’s Toby Dammit, a 50-minute
portion of Spirits of
the Dead, an anthology
of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Stamp made Italy his home for several years, during
which time his film work included Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, opposite
Silvana Mangano. His subsequent credits include Alan Cooke’s The Mind of
Mr. Soames, Richard Donner’s
Superman and Richard
Lester’s Superman II (as
Kryptonian supervillain General Zod), Peter Brook’s Meetings With
Remarkable Men, Stephen
Frears’ The Hit, Richard
Franklin’s Link, Ivan
Reitman’s Legal Eagles, Michael
Cimino’s The Sicilian and Oliver Stone’s
Wall Street. The film Prince of
Shadows, in which
the actor starred for director Pilar Miró, was awarded the Silver Berlin Bear
at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Stamp began
his fourth decade as an actor, wearing some of the choicest of Lizzy Gardiner’s
Academy Award®-winning costumes for the comedy The
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, for director Stephan Elliott,
starring with Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving. In 1999, it was Stamp’s lead role in
Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey—which
debuted that year to widespread critical acclaim at the Cannes Film
Festival—that once again made him popular with a whole new generation of
moviegoers. For his performance, Stamp received nominations for Best Male Lead
at the 2000 Independent Spirit Awards and for Best British Actor of the Year at
the London Film Critic Circle Awards.
Stamp can
also be seen in Frank Oz’s Bowfinger, Red Planet, the French
romantic-comedy My Wife Is an
Actress, Disney’s The Haunted
Mansion and Elektra. In 2008,
Stamp was seen in the remake of the famous television series Get Smart, opposite
Steve Carell and
Anne
Hathaway; starred opposite Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy in the film Wanted; played
opposite
ABOUT THE Jim Carrey in
the comedy Yes Man; and starred
opposite Tom Cruise in the historical thriller Valkyrie.
FILMMAKERS
In addition
to his acting career, Stamp is an accomplished writer and author. He has
published three volumes of his memoirs, which includes “Stamp Album” (written
in tribute to his late mother), a novel titled “The Night” and a cookbook
co-written with Elizabeth Buxton to provide alternatives to those who are wheat
and dairy intolerant.
GEORGE NOLFI (Directed
by/Screenplay by/
Pro
duced by) marks his directorial debut with The Adjustment
Bureau. Previously,
Nolfi wrote
The Sentinel, for Michael
Douglas, and Ocean’s
Twelve,
for Steven
Soderbergh, and co
wrote The Bourne Ultimatum,
for Paul
Greengrass.
Nolfi was
raised in Boston,
Chicago and
Wash ing ton. He attended Princeton as an undergraduate and did graduate study
in philosophy at Oxford and political science at UCLA.
PHILIP K.
DICK’s (Based
Upon the Short Story “Adjustment Team” by) prolific career as a writer produced
36 science-fiction novels and more than 120 short stories. In addition to his
well-known science-fiction books, Dick also penned 10 realist novels, numerous
outlines for unfinished novels and a series of nonfiction essays. He won the
Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1962 for “The Man in the High
Castle” and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
of the Year in 1974 for “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.” The Philip K. Dick
Award is presented annually for distinguished science-fiction books published
for the first time in the United States as a paperback original.
Including the science-fiction masterpiece Blade Runner, Ridley
Scott’s classic adaptation of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” nearly a
dozen adaptations of Philip K. Dick’s novels and short stories have made their
way to the big screen, including Total Recall, Minority
Report and A Scanner
Darkly. To date,
these films have generated more than $1 billion in worldwide box-office and
ancillary revenue. This astounding success is the result of combining visionary
stories with the world’s finest film directors, studios and actors.
MICHAEL HACKETT (Produced by) grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and currently lives
in Los Angeles. The
Adjustment Bureau is the first
production under his Gambit Pictures partnership with director George Nolfi.
Prior to
that, Hackett was a production executive at Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna’s C-2
Pictures, where he oversaw development and production of Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines and developed
Termi nator
Salvation. Before
that, he produced Paycheck at Paramount
Pictures, also based on a Philip K. Dick short story.
Hackett began
as a production executive at Paramount Pictures, working on such films as Mission:
Impossible, Mission:
Impossible II, Braveheart, several Star Trek chapters, Face/Off, Deep Impact, Clear and
Present Danger, The Truman
Show and Runaway Bride, among
others.
He graduated from Princeton University and Phillips Exeter
Academy.
BILL CARRARO (Produced by)
most recently served as the executive producer on Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman, starring
Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving. He is currently
in production on the Universal Pictures/ Imagine Entertainment comedy caper Tower Heist, directed by
Brett Ratner and starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy.
Previously,
Carraro produced Chris Weitz’s The Golden Compass, which starred Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Eva Green and Daniel
Craig and won the Oscar® for Best
Achievement in Visual Effects.
Carraro’s
other feature film credits as producer or executive producer include The Sentinel, starring
Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria and Kim Basinger; My Super
Ex-Girlfriend, starring
Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson; Stay, starring
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling; The Best Man, starring
Taye Diggs and Nia Long; Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel; Undercover
Brother; and American
History X, starring
Edward Norton, who received an Academy Award® nomination for his powerful performance.
Additionally,
Carraro has collaborated with directors such as Ivan Reitman, Woody Allen,
Brian De Palma, Malcolm Lee, Gregory Hoblit, Joan Micklin Silver, Marc Forster
and James Foley.
Carraro was
the producer of the Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated HBO film The Tuskegee
Airmen, which
starred Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding, Jr. This highly acclaimed project
garnered him the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement. Carraro was
also a recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture for
producing The Best Man. In
addition, Carraro received a Saturn Award for producing Frequency.
Carraro also
served as president of production at Aaron Russo Films, supervising
independently and co-financed projects that included a first-look deal at Orion
Pictures.
A native New
Yorker born in Brooklyn and a graduate of Ithaca College, with a degree in film
and photography, Carraro began his career in the com mercial film industry
before moving on to feature film production.
Carraro is a
member of both the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of
America and, in addition to his various producer credits, has worked as a
second unit director.
CHRIS MOORE (Produced by)
recently codirected and executive produced the Howard Zinn documentary The People
Speak. His
filmography includes the highly successful series of American Pie films, Reindeer
Games, Joy Ride, the
documentary Pop & Me and the
Academy Award®-winning Good Will Hunting. Moore was co-creator of HBO’s Project
Greenlight, and in
2008, he directed his first feature film, Kill Theory.
Moore
received a B.A. in American History from Harvard University.
ISA DICK
HACKETT (Executive
Producer), daughter of Philip K. Dick, is founder and CEO of Electric Shepherd
Productions, LLC, which is dedicated to the stewardship and adaptation of the
Philip
K. Dick
library, which Dick Hackett jointly owns with her two siblings.
Dick Hackett
is credited for her work on Richard Linklater’s adaptation of “A Scanner
Darkly,” starring Keanu Reeves. Dick Hackett is credited for her guidance on
and participation in DVD special features for Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Minority
Report and A Scanner
Darkly. Dick
Hackett spearheaded and oversaw a graphic-novel project based on the Philip
K. Dick novel
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” the source novel for the film Blade Runner. She also
produced a graphic novel adaptation of “The Electric Ant,” with Marvel comics.
Dick Hackett is currently serving as a consultant on the Disney
animation adaptation of “The King of the Elves.” Her other projects for which
she’s currently serving as producer include adaptations of “Flow My Tears, the
Policeman Said” and a limited series co-production with Ridley Scott’s Scott
Free Productions of “The Man in the High Castle.”
JONATHAN
GORDON (Executive
Producer) is an independent producer who, through his Jon Gordon Productions,
is also producing (with Peter Guber’s Mandalay Pictures and Michael Bay’s
Platinum Dunes) a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. He recently
produced Kevin Smith’s Red State.
Prior to
setting up Jon Gordon Productions, Gordon was president of production at
Universal Pictures, where he oversaw the development and production of The Kingdom, starring
Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, and The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon. He moved to Universal after a 16-year
career at Miramax Films, where he began as an assistant to Harvey Weinstein
and ultimately served as copresident of production.
During his
tenure at Miramax, Gordon oversaw the development and production of more than
50 films. He served as executive producer on more than a dozen Miramax movies
including multiple Oscar® winner Good Will
Hunting; Flirting With
Disaster, directed by
David O. Russell and starring Ben Stiller; Derailed, directed by
Oscar® nominee Mikael Håfström and starring Clive Owen and Jennifer
Aniston; Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind, George
Clooney’s directorial debut starring Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts and Drew
Barrymore; The Yards (Official
Competition, 2000 Cannes Film Festival), starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin
Phoenix and Charlize Theron; and several films by writer/director Kevin Smith
including Chasing Amy and Dogma.
Some of
Gordon’s current projects in development include Side Effects, a thriller
written and to be directed by Scott Burns (Ocean’s 12, The Bourne
Ultimatum) and
produced with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) at Miramax; an untitled comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, who
will also co-produce; Killing
Ground, a Deliverance-style
thriller to be directed by Håfström and produced with Nick Wechsler; Turbulence and Columbian
Gold, both in
collaboration with Mirage Productions; The State Within, a film adaptation of the Golden Globe-nominated BBC
miniseries; The Brigade, based on
Howard Blum’s best-selling nonfiction book; and Exoneration, a drama in
the vein of Erin
Brockovich, based on
the true story of a woman who spent eight years trying to overturn her
husband’s life sentence for the murder of her mother.
Gordon is a graduate of Northwestern University
and sits on the National Advisory Council for Northwestern’s School of
Communications. He is also the founder of the Kenny Gordon Foundation, a
charity that raises money for the prevention of sudden cardiac arrhythmias, as
well as for full four-year scholarships to Skidmore College for economically
and educationally disadvantaged young men and women who desire to attend
college, and to provide inner-city children the opportunity to attend summer
camp.
JOHN TOLL, ASC (Director of Photography)
is one of only two cinematographers to win consecutive Oscars®—one
for Legends of the Fall (1994) and the other for Braveheart (1995). He was also
nominated for an Oscar® for The Thin Red Line in 1998. Toll has been
nominated for five American Society of Cinematographers Awards and has won two.
He is also the recipient of a BAFTA and a New York Film Critics Circle Award.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,
Toll began his career as a camera operator on such films as The Last Waltz, Norma Rae and Urban Cowboy. His additional credits as
director of photography include The
Rainmaker, Almost Famous, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, Elizabethtown, Seraphim Falls, Rise, Gone Baby Gone, Tropic Thunder and The Burning Plain. He was also DP on the
pilot episode of the acclaimed AMC television series Breaking Bad, for which he received an
Emmy nomination.
Toll
recently lensed the feature It’s
Complicated, starring Meryl Streep,
Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
KEVIN
THOMPSON (Production
Designer) served as production designer on Tony Gilroy’s Oscar®-nominated Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. For his work on the film, the Art
Directors Guild nominated Thompson for Excellence in Production Design for a
Contemporary Feature Film. Thompson also designed Marc Forster’s acclaimed
fantasy-drama Stranger Than
Fiction, starring
Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah and Dustin
Hoffman. He previously collaborated with Forster on the 2005 thriller Stay, starring
Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.
Thompson
recently designed Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson. Thompson’s other
film credits include Did You Hear
About the Morgans?, starring Sarah
Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant; Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen; the 2007 remake of
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games; the sleeper
hit Igby Goes
Down, starring
Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Jeff Goldblum; Bart Freundlich’s Trust the Man
and World
Traveler; Birth, starring
Nicole Kidman; The Yards, starring
Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix; 54, starring
Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayek; Down to You, starring Julia Stiles and Freddie Prinze, Jr.; Kicked in the
Head, with Kevin
Corrigan and Linda Fiorentino; James Toback’s Two Girls and a Guy, with
Heather Graham and Robert Downey, Jr.; Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer; Ismail
Merchant’s The
Proprietor; Larry
Clark’s controversial film Kids; Little Odessa, with Tim
Roth and Vanessa Redgrave; Party Girl, starring Parker Posey; and David O. Russell’s Flirting With
Disaster.
Prior to his
work in feature films, Thompson began his career as an architect and went on to
design sets for short films, commercials, theater and music videos. His short
film credits include Spike Jonze’s Dog Boy, Tom Kalin’s Urban Legends and Tamara Jenkins’ Family Remains.
JAY
RABINOWITZ, ACE (Edited by)
has enjoyed a long creative collaboration with Jim Jarmusch. Their work
together includes The Limits of
Control, Broken Flowers, Coffee and
Cigarettes, Ghost Dog:
The Way of the Samurai, Year of the
Horse (for which
Rabinowitz received an American Cinema Editors [ACE] Award nomination), Dead Man, Night on
Earth and the Int. Trailer
Night segment of
the Ten Minutes
Older: The Trumpet series of
short films.
His other credits as film editor include Terrence Malick’s The Tree of
Life, Todd
Haynes’ I’m Not There, Curtis
Hanson’s Academy Award®-winning 8 Mile, Paul
Schrader’s Academy Award®-winning Affliction, Keith
Gordon’s Mother Night, Lodge
Kerrigan’s Clean, Shaven
and Sara
Driver’s When Pigs Fly.
The Phoenix
Film Critics Society and the Online Film Critics Society cited Rabinowitz’s
editing for Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream as the year’s best; subsequently, the latter group cited his
editing for Aronofsky’s The Fountain as the year’s best.
Rabinowitz
also functioned as music editor on Explicit Ills, Bomb the
System, Weapons, Big Bad Love, Requiem for a
Dream, When Pigs Fly, The Limits of
Control, Broken
Flowers, Coffee and
Cigarettes and Ghost Dog:
The Way of the Samurai.
For Barry
Levinson and Tom Fontana, Rabinowitz edited numerous episodes of the television
series Oz and Homicide:
Life on the Street. He worked
with legendary photographer Robert Frank on Frank’s film Last Supper.
He is currently at work editing Rampart, the new
film from writer/director Oren Moverman.
THOMAS NEWMAN
(Music by) is
widely acclaimed as one of today’s most prominent composers for film. He has
composed music for more than 50 motion pictures and television series and has
earned 10 Academy Award® nominations
and five Grammy Awards.
He is the
youngest son of Alfred Newman (1900–1970), the longtime musical director of 20th Century Fox
and the composer of scores for such films as Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback
of Notre Dame, The Diary of
Anne Frank and All About Eve. As a child,
Thomas Newman pursued basic music and piano studies. However, it was not until
after his father’s death that the younger Newman, then age 14, felt charged
with the desire to write.
Newman
studied composition and orchestration at the University of Southern California
with Professor Frederick Lesemann and noted film composer David Raksin, and
privately with composer George Tremblay. He completed his academic work at Yale
University, studying with Jacob Druckman, Bruce MacCombie and Robert Moore.
Newman also gratefully acknowledges the early influence of another prominent
musician, the legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, who served as a
great mentor and champion.
A turning
point in Newman’s career took place while he was working as a musical assistant
on the 1984 film Reckless, for which
he soon was promoted to the position of composer. And so, at the age of 27,
Newman successfully composed his first film score. Since then, he has
contributed distinctive and evocative scores to dozens of notable films
including Desperately
Seeking Susan, The Lost Boys, The Rapture, Fried Green
Tomatoes, The Player, Scent of a
Woman, Flesh and
Bone, The Shawshank
Redemption, Little Women, American
Buffalo, The People
vs. Larry Flynt, Oscar and
Lucinda, The Horse
Whisperer, Meet Joe
Black, American
Beauty, The Green
Mile, Erin
Brockovich, In the
Bedroom, Road to
Perdition, Finding Nemo, Lemony
Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Cinderella
Man, Jarhead, Little
Children, The Good
German, Revolutionary
Road and WALL·E. Newman also
composed the music for HBO’s acclaimed six-hour miniseries Angels in America, directed by
Mike Nichols. He received an Emmy Award for his theme for the HBO original
series Six Feet
Under.
In addition to his work in film and television, Newman has
composed several works for the concert stage including the symphonic work Reach Forth
Our Hands,
commissioned in 1996 by the Cleveland Orchestra to commemorate the city’s
bicentennial, as well as At Ward’s Ferry, Length 180
Ft., a concerto
for double bass and orchestra commissioned in 2001 by the Pittsburgh Symphony.
His latest concert piece was a chamber work entitled It Got Dark,
commissioned by the acclaimed Kronos Quartet in 2009. As part of a separate
commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the work was expanded and adapted
for symphony orchestra and string quartet, and premiered at Walt Disney Concert
Hall in December of 2009.
KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE’s (Costume Designer) recent film credits include The Switch, with Jason
Bateman and Jennifer Aniston, and Bennett Miller’s acclaimed Capote.
Her other
credits include Little Manhattan; Jesus’ Son; The
Opportunists; HBO’s Hysterical
Blindness; Mira Nair’s
segment, India, from September 11; and Songcatcher. She also
designed the costumes for Ang Lee’s BMW short, Chosen.
Her opera projects include Philip Glass’ Les Enfants
Terribles and The Sound of
a Voice. Walicka
Maimone has also participated in elaborate experimental theater pieces by
Robert Woodruff (Oedipus Rex) and Richard
Foreman (Maria del
Bosco and King Cowboy
Rufus Rules the Universe). She has also collaborated with choreographers Susan Marshall,
Twyla Tharp, Donald Byrd and David Dorfman.
After
graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in acting, MARK RUSSELL (Visual
Effects Supervisor) began his career in film production at DreamWorks in Los
Angeles, working on groundbreaking films such as Saving
Private Ryan, Minority
Report and A.I.
Artificial Intelligence. Since then, he has applied his breadth of experience to visual
effects in other major films such as Hellboy and The Italian
Job, as well as
independent projects like Incident at Loch Ness, with Werner Herzog, and several major national commercials.
Russell
supervised the visual effects on the Para mount Vantage film Carriers and the
independents Sleep Dealer and Please Give, as well as
the critically acclaimed Synecdoche, New York from writer/ director Charlie Kaufman.
Russell also
directs commercials including a series of viral spots for WebVet that was
featured on TNT’s America’s
Funniest Commercials in 2009. He
is currently in production on Universal Pictures’ Tower Heist, directed by
Brett Ratner and starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, scheduled for release
in fall 2011.
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