![]() ![]() The death of Emperor Charles IV left Christians divided into factions supporting either King Wenceslas of Bohemia or the king of France as the next Holy Roman Emperor. Unlike West's previous directorial effort, Pearl boasts a vibrant, colorful look that makes it feel, as West recently remarked during a conversation with Digital Trends, like a "live-action Disney movie from the 1940s, '50s, or '60s." The film's playful Technicolor aesthetic, when combined with its tale of madness and murder, helps cement Pearl as the second great horror movie that West has released this year.MEDIEVAL starts with some on-screen text that briefly explains the 14th century state of the Holy Roman Empire. Together, the two films have cemented Goth and West as one of the most exciting director-actor pairs working in Hollywood right now.ĭespite their obvious similarities, Pearl is also strikingly different from X. The new film, which is a prequel set 60 years before the events of X, reunites him with star Mia Goth, who reprises her role from the first film and plays Pearl's titular killer. The writer-director made waves March when he released X, his A24-produced love letter to 1970s slasher flicks. Not many filmmakers are having as good of a year as Ti West. I want to do it.” After he joined, it was easy to get the others since everyone wants to be in a film with Michael Caine. He called me and said, “Hey, you’ve got a lovely screenplay. Also, Medieval is a Czech/American production and I really wanted to do it in English, so I needed actors like Ben.Īnd then when I got Ben, I thought I try to get Michael Caine because I love him. What I liked about Ben was that he looked and felt exactly like how a young Jan would look and feel. What made you cast an American (Foster) to play a Czech hero? Medieval has an impressive cast with Ben Foster, Michael Caine, and Matthew Goode, among many others. ![]() But the personal story of them is partially fiction because we don’t know much about those times. ![]() ![]() All the costumes, all the things around that are right. And everybody remembers that Mel Gibson as Wallace had an affair with a French princess who wasn’t even born yet in real life.īut at the end of Braveheart, everything comes together. In Braveheart, the warriors had those famous blue war paint on their faces, which wasn’t historically accurate, but they used them because they looked great. but at the same time, you have to put all of that into a two-hour film. With films like that and Medieval, you always have to feel that it’s real. I couldn’t sleep much because it was a very intense three months of shooting.ĭid you find that there was sort of a delicate balance between portraying the reality of Medieval and its real-life historical figures versus making an entertaining and comprehensible two-hour film? Also, the shoot was physically exhausting. In the evening, I was talking to actors like Matthew Goode, who was not on board at that time, and trying to convince him as a producer to join our film. So that was the biggest challenge because when I was preparing as a director, I also had to rewrite some parts of the movie because Michael Caine wants to change a line or Ben Foster wants to change something else. This is my third movie as a director, producer, and writer, and it’s always difficult to do all these roles at the same time. What were some of the challenges involved in directing such a huge film? I read that Medieval is the most expensive film ever for the Czech Republic. I wanted to capture the mood of medieval times and how rough and beautiful it was. The movie concentrates on a very short time of his life, over a period of just several weeks. I chose a time when he was young and becoming the hero that he is now remembered as. But those films were more about the Hussite Revolution than about Jan. They were spectacular for those times because they were really big productions. When I was young, I watched those movies and they were already old. Jan was already the subject of a number of films, the most famous being the Hussite Revolutionary trilogy by Otakar Vavra that was released about 60 years ago. I had always dreamed about doing a movie like Braveheart, so once I got a chance, I decided to make an epic about Jan.ĭid you look to similarly scaled epic movies like Braveheart or Gladiator for inspiration when you thought about making a movie about Jan? I was very interested about who he was and what happened around him. And I had already learned a lot about him in my youth. Petr Jákl: Jan is my country’s big hero, one of the most famous people of all time, because he was never defeated in battle. What made you want to make a film about him? Note: this interview has been condensed for length and clarity purposes.ĭigital Trends: Medieval is based on the true story of Jan Žižka, who is something of a folk hero in the Czech Republic. ![]()
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