The Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron stated that Disclaimer is a miniseries of seven chapters based on the novel by Renée Knight.
At a press conference, within the framework of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the Mexican director expressed that although he does not know how to make television because it is not in his DNA, he had the opportunity to develop characters in depth. However, it is urgent to return to the hour and a half of a movie.
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Usually, in his films, Alfonso Cuarón explained, there is little narrative, and television and series are based on narrative, so he wanted to do something completely like that and learn, however, he recognized that it is not his thing, nor by Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki, who assisted in the photography.
“We don’t know how to make television, so the methodology was film, so what you see on television is normally done faster, and I don’t say with pride that I don’t know how to make television, it is a methodology, a job that I don’t know how to make.” “he said, you have to take very quick solutions, film very quickly and that is not in my DNA or in that of Chivo, so it took us a long time to film each scene,” he expressed.
The Mexican director pointed out that since he started writing the idea for Disclaimer, he already had the multi-award-winning actress Cate Blanchett in his head.
“Once she said yes, I was terrified that she would say no, but since she said yes, she got involved as a producer and it was a mutual decision process, we discussed each of the parts,” he added.
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There can be a very great compatibility between cinema and television, said the director of Children of Man; However, one of the reasons why the most cinematic part is lost on television is when on television, which is a writer’s medium in general, the directors are interchangeable, different directors come in to make different episodes, he said.
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