Edward Douglas from Coming Soon caught up with Keanu Reeves at the press junket last week and talked about Side by Side with him. This was a great interview in my opinion.
The questions were such that they resulted in answers that actually glean information on how this film was conceptualized and structurally put together. Keanu and crew started the project off by speaking with cinematographers at the Camerimage and from there moved on to cameras. The start point led them down the path of following the work flow of a film. Keanu also discusses how interviewees were chosen. In talking about interviewinf the participants, Keanu said:
Yeah, it’s very personal, this documentary, in a sense, so I wanted to be part of it, and I wanted to get the answers. These questions that I ask are my questions and it’s Chris’s interest. Chris and I wanted to make a film that would be interesting to the specialist, but more importantly also the general audience, sort of a movie about movies.
When asked about Passengers at the very end of the interview, Keanu shared the following:
Yeah, “Passengers” is a great project. I hope we get to make it. Yeah, starting making movies sometimes has its challenges, and right now we’re trying to answer the questions of how can we make this movie? It’s just a really ambitious film production-wise, and it’s just about raising enough resources to try and be able to make it. So, but I’m glad, yeah, Spaihts is a great writer, and “Passengers” is a great project.
The entire interview can be read here.