![]() ![]() I found that each film Ive made has had its budget increased sort of exponentially, and Ive found the process reassuringly similar at every stage. I found the original movie very inspiring.ĭid you find that working with a much larger budget liberating or constricting in terms of having so many choices your third time as a director. I thought I should be free to do whatever inspired me and took my fancy. To be honest I started work on Insomnia some months before Memento was even released in theatres, so I wasnt really having to view Insomnia necessarily as a follow-up in the sense that people would question it because no one really knew the extent Memento would get out there at the time. Was there a lot of pressure to follow up Memento with an original? Were people surprised you were making a remake? A great moral dilemma that is taken one direction in the original movie, and I think its a great movie, but as I saw it, it occurred to me that you could by changing the characters take the same situation, the same intense psychological relationship between the two main characters and take it in a rather different direction and create a different kind of moral paradox. I think it has a fascinating and very evocative psychological situation. Why choose Insomnia for your follow up to Memento? What about the original appealed to you? (The following is from the Archive, 2002) While calling his structure, "Dislinear", his apparently backward storytelling, and dark and noirish tale, was nominated for numerous awards including an Academy Award for screenwriting. Soon after Nolan began drafting a screenplay and gathering the resources for the production of "Memento", a story about a man with a short-term memory problem who must solve his wife's murder. Years later while an independent filmmaker, he was inspired by a story his brother had written and told him about during a cross-country (United States) trip. The show forms part of Paramount+’s global strategy to commission 150 international originals by 2025, and joins UK originals such as A Gentleman in Moscow, The Castaways and The Killing Kind, which launches earlier this month.Known for his uniquely structured stories that often juggle various plotlines and timelines, Christopher Nolan was born in London in 1970, and began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male-action figures. ![]() Left Banks producing in association with All3Media-backed BYO Films and Sony Pictures Television will distribute the series internationally. Pinborough is the writer, adapting her novel for screen. We have a fantastic cast, crew and production team all set for a very fulfilling few months ahead.”Ĭharlotte Essex serves as producer. Sarah Pinborough has written such an exciting script. “Myself and BYO Films are really excited to be working alongide Left Bank on Insomnia,” said McClure. Leanne Best ( Bolan’s Shoes) is Emma’s estranged sister Phoebe, and Corinna Marlowe (Hysteria) is Emma’s mother Patricia. McClure is known for her role in BBC cop drama hit Line of Duty, ITV’s bomb disposal thriller Trigger Point and Shane Meadows’ Channel 4 show This Is England.Ĭullen ( The Gold) will play Emma’s loving husband Robert, while Smylie Bradwell ( Wisting) and India Fowler ( The Nevers) play Will and Chloe, Emma and Tom’s children. A couple of weeks before her fortieth birthday Emma stops sleeping - just as her mother had done right before she suffered a violent psychotic breakdown on the night of her own fortieth birthday. McClure will play successful career woman Emma Averill, who fears she might be losing her mind, when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. ![]()
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