"We made this movie to be on the big screen": Director Jon Chu Bets On a Post-Pandemic Hollywood
Inside the Hive by Vanity Fair
English - May 22, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MB - ★★★★ - 891 ratingsNews Society & Culture interview business entrepreneurship health leadership politics fitness news technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this week’s episode, Joe Hagan talks to Crazy Rich Asians director Jon Chu and film editor Myron Kerstein to discuss the wrenching decision to push their new tent-pole film, the Lin Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights, to summer 2021 instead of opening on a streaming service. With movie production in Hollywood halted, studios and the producers, directors, actors and film crews they employ are groping for answers as to how films get made again, where their next paychecks will come from, and whether audiences will ever return to theaters in the numbers they once did. Jon Chu is betting that theater-goers will come back once the crisis has passed: "I have to believe in that. I can't give up. I can't give up on that dream. And so our job is to give reasons for it to exist."