State of Play (film)

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State of Play
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Produced by Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Andrew Hauptman
E. Bennett Walsh
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan
Tony Gilroy
Peter Morgan
Billy Ray
Paul Abbott (series)
Starring Russell Crowe
Ben Affleck
Helen Mirren
Rachel McAdams
Music by Alex Heffes
Cinematography Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Justine Wright
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) April 17, 2009
Country United States
Language English
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IMDb profile

State of Play is an upcoming American political thriller which is scheduled for release in 2009. It is a film adaptation of the award-winning British television serial State of Play, which aired on BBC One in 2003, and on BBC America in 2004. State of Play is directed by Last King of Scotland helmer Kevin Macdonald and is written by Matthew Michael Carnahan. Rewrites were carried out by Tony Gilroy, Peter Morgan and Billy Ray. The music is by Alex Heffes. The film is being produced by Working Title Films for Universal Pictures, which acquired the rights after they were subject to two bidding wars. Andrew Hauptman, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are among the producers.

The film tells of a journalist's probe into the suspicious death of a Congressman's mistress. The plot of the six hour mini-series has been condensed to fit two hours, and the location changed to Washington, D.C. Many of the main characters have been retained. Ben Affleck plays the Congressman who finds his presidential ambitions threatened by the case, and Russell Crowe plays the journalist leading the newspaper's investigation. Support comes from Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright Penn, Rachel McAdams, and Jeff Daniels. Kevin Macdonald said State of Play would be informed by the films of the 1970s, and explore the topical subjects of journalistic independence and the relationship between politicians and the press.

Brad Pitt was to star in the role ultimately filled by Crowe, but he left the production after disagreements with the studio over the direction of script rewrites. Pitt's departure led to the postponement of filming, which was originally scheduled to start in November 2007. The delay meant that Edward Norton could not play the role of the Congressman due to a scheduling conflict, and he was replaced by Affleck. Principal photography started on January 11, 2008 on Los Angeles sound stages which incorporated a large newsroom set and a replica of a Washington, D.C. street. The production moved to Washington, D.C. in March 2008 for a month of location filming, which encompassed shoots at several famous landmarks, on streets throughout the city, and in the the city's subway system. Filming wrapped on April 6, 2008. State of Play was to be released in the United States towards the end of 2008, but the production delay saw the date changed to April 17, 2009.

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[edit] Premise

The plot will be similar to that of the original six-hour program, retaining several main characters, but condensing and changing certain aspects to fit the two-hour format. The film is set in Washington, D.C. and tells of Stephen Collins (Affleck), a fast-rising United States Congressman with ambitions to become his party's presidential candidate. This goal is threatened after his mistress (a former research assistant) is found dead in suspicious circumstances, while right-wing opponents to Collins' campaign for social reform attempt to use the scandal to kill his political career. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey (Crowe), an investigative journalist and Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case, becoming romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife (Wright-Penn) in the process.[1][2][3][4]

[edit] Production

The film is being made for Universal Pictures by Working Title Films. Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are producing for Working Title, alongside E. Bennett Walsh[5] and Andell Entertainment's Andrew Hauptman and Eric Hayes.[6] Mini-series creator Paul Abbott is acting as executive producer alongside Liza Chasin and Debra Hayward.[6] Kristen Lowe and Maradith Frenkel are overseeing production for the studio.[3] State of Play was to be released in the United States towards the end of 2008,[7] but the delayed start to production saw the date changed to April 17, 2009.[8] The studio hopes that the long lead time and lack of focus upon the Middle East will help State of Play avoid the same disappointing box office performance which greeted other politically themed films in 2007 and 2008.[9]

[edit] Development

The original serial was written by Paul Abbott and aired on British television channel BBC One in May–June 2003 and on BBC America in April 2004.[10] Abbott was initially reluctant to sell the film rights to State of Play, fearing a compressed version of his mini-series would be unworkable, but in May 2004 a seven-figure Paramount Pictures-backed bid led by producer Scott Rudin was accepted.[11] The bid prevailed over an offer from Andrew Hauptman's Mission Pictures (backed by Warner Bros.), but the deal fell through before completion. After a second bidding war, Mission acquired the rights for Universal Pictures in December 2004.[12]

Director Kevin Macdonald has long been attached to the project, though an early report suggested screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan was set to make the film his directorial debut.[13] Macdonald was a fan of the original mini-series, saying it would be a "hard act to follow". He said it was the blend of fiction and the topical subjects of journalism and politics which attracted him to the project, adding that he "wanted to do something that tackles the way we as a society in America and Europe learn what's going on, and how much we can trust newspapers and the nightly news." He said that in an age when people read fewer newspapers, he wanted to explore the necessity for reliable information and the threat to the journalistic profession from the collusion between reporters and politicians,[1] and that the film would "[ask] questions of how independent the press is, how much real investigating is conducted, and how much is taken on faith from lobbyists or PR sheets."[14] Macdonald cited the films of the 1970s, All the President's Men in particular, as major influences, saying that while he was scared of comparisons with the film account of the Watergate scandal, State of Play would primarily be a piece of entertainment.[1]

[edit] Writing

Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan praised Paul Abbott's original mini-series script, calling it a "wonderful story". The core issue for Carnahan, and the key factor behind his desire to write the adaptation, was the question the story raised about whether a person would be justified in doing "a pretty awful thing" if they were performing great deeds in other areas of their life.[15] Carnahan began working on revisions to his script with Kevin Macdonald,[14] but this process was disrupted when Carnahan's daughter fell ill. When he chose to concentrate his time on his family, the task was handed to Bourne series screenwriter Tony Gilroy, who performed a small rewrite based upon Carnahan's notes. In September 2007, Carnahan said he didn't rule out participating further in the development of the film, and was "excited to see what it [had] become".[15] Further rewrites have been carried out by The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan[16] and Shattered Glass writer/director Billy Ray.[17]

[edit] Casting

"I wanted to explore the ambiguity of journalism... It's a kind of a conceit that journalists live under, that they remain objective. That's never been my experience. They're all too human, all too emotionally affected. Someone could write absolute rubbish about you because their aunty's having a problem with cancer or something. It's the way they re-balance themselves. So I think examining that conceit and examining the true input of human experience in the journalism that we read, it was very interesting for me."
Russell Crowe explains his attraction to the role of Cal McCaffrey.[18]
  • Russell Crowe plays Cal McCaffrey. The character is a "street smart" reporter,[4] described by Kevin Macdonald as "[representing] the old world journalist, the shining knight who is after the truth".[14] Macdonald traveled to Australia to court Crowe's involvement,[19] which averted the film's abandonment after Brad Pitt dropped out of the role citing concerns over the script. Crowe (who is reportedly happy with the script) also had to negotiate with the studio over shooting dates to avoid a conflict with Nottingham, which he is due to star in for director Ridley Scott in March 2008.[20] The majority of Crowe's three hours per day in hair and makeup preparation was spent hiding his "extremely long" hair, which he grew for Nottingham.[18] During filming in Washington, D.C., Crowe acquired an education in journalism from The Washington Post's Metro editor, R.B. Brenner.[9] British newspaper The Independent noted that hiring an A-list American actor for the lead role was sidelining original McCaffrey actor John Simm, who it said was "widely considered one of the best television actors to emerge in recent years" and that the recasting was "the latest example of the trend for British actors to be replaced by Americans". The Stage television writer Liz Thomas said that while it was frustrating for British actors, such casting made good commercial sense, expressing hope that the film's high profile would be a "huge advert" or "shop window" for other such projects to come out of the UK in recent years.[13]
  • Brad Pitt had a long association with the part.[13] He was initially attracted to the project after watching Macdonald's documentary Touching the Void (2003),[21] and had enjoyed the director's film adaptation of The Last King of Scotland (2006). Macdonald had also been working with Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment on a potential future project.[14] Pitt officially committed to star in State of Play in August 2007 after a Tony Gilroy script rewrite was completed.[22] He visited the newsroom of The Washington Post with Macdonald in September 2007 to research the role, spending four hours at the site "talking shop" with political and investigative reporters,[23] but one week before filming was to begin in November 2007, he indicated he was leaving the production.[7] Producer Eric Fellner attempted to convince Pitt to remain in the film,[24] but Pitt was in disagreement with the studio over changes which had been made to the script since he originally agreed to star.[7] Talent agency CAA (which represents Pitt) maintained that he never officially signed off on the changes;[25] Pitt preferred a version closer to the original Matthew Michael Carnahan draft and wanted to postpone filming until the after the resolution of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, which would have enabled a further rewrite. The studio preferred to press on with production, and initially said it was to sue Pitt for reneging on his "pay or play" deal,[7] which would have earned him $20 million.[26] Settlement talks later led to a thawing of relations between the parties.[25] Pitt later said of the situation: "I had definite beliefs of what [the film] should be, and the director had his definite beliefs [and] we got up against this writers' strike where we couldn't fuse the two."[27]
  • Helen Mirren plays Cameron Lynne. Mirren was cast as the ruthless editor of the Washington Globe (the newspaper investigating the story) in September 2007.[31][6] Producer Andrew Hauptman said of the character, "She's the one in control [...] she makes it known that she's strong, old school—a real Fleet Street type." Mirren indicated that Lynne would be English.[32] The delay to the production caused by Pitt's departure initially put Mirren's participation in doubt, as she was due to appear in the film Love Ranch for husband Taylor Hackford in March 2008, but a revised production date enabled her to remain attached to the project.[33][34] Mirren filmed all her scenes during the first eight weeks of filming in Los Angeles.[35]
  • Jason Bateman plays Dominic Foy. Bateman joined the production in September 2007.[36] He described Foy as a "bisexual fetish club promoter",[37] and a "weirdo with blonde highlights".[38] He said that the character was "very different" to his original mini-series incarnation.[39] McAdams said Bateman was "experimenting with his dark side" with the character, but that "it has a lot of humor and he'll bring levity to the story."[40]
  • Rachel McAdams plays Della Frye. McAdams was cast in September 2007 as a junior political reporter who finds herself in the midst of the career-making story.[6][31] McAdams described Frye as a "star blogger" who is mentored by Crowe's character.[41] Crowe described Frye and McCaffrey's relationship as one "constantly at odds" and said that the characters "fundamentally see the story [differently]". He said McCaffrey is more concerned with the corporate viewpoint, with Frye seeing it from a more personal position: "There's a consistent battle between the two of us to try and find out which one of those points of views is right."[18] McAdams said she was fascinated with the evolution of journalism in the United States, and that she said she was curious to examine whether her character's "new breed" of journalism was as accurate as more traditional forms.[18] McAdams visited The Washington Post in October 2007 in order to research the role.[42]

The cast also includes Robin Wright Penn as Anne Collins (Stephen Collins' estranged wife),[6][31] Jeff Daniels,[43], Rob Benedict,[44] and Michael Berresse as a "sociopathic assassin".[45] In a scene shot at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.,[9] the production employed the presence of several real-world journalists amongst the extras in order to lend verisimilitude to a scene in which Wright-Penn's character makes a statement to the press. The group included Bob Woodward, Margaret Carlson, Bob Schieffer, John Palmer, E. J. Dionne, Katty Kay, and Steven Clemons.[46]

[edit] Filming

Principal photography took place between January 11, 2008[47] and April 6, 2008.[9] Filming was originally scheduled to start in November 2007,[2] but was postponed due to Brad Pitt's unexpected departure from the production.[19] Eric Fellner indicated that the film was close to being abandoned, but that Universal's chairman and co-chairman (Marc Shmuger and David Linde) were "100% determined to get it made, and [to] do whatever it took to make it stay together."[25]

Director of photography Rodrigo Prieto indicated that the film was be shot in two distinct visual styles: scenes featuring the media were captured using a standard widescreen picture on 35 mm film, while scenes focusing on the world of politics were shot using digital cameras. Hand-held cameras have been used.[48] For color management, Prieto employed Gamma & Density Company's 3cP color management and correction software,[49] using the American Society of Cinematographers' Color Decision List to keep color consistent throughout shooting, dailies, post and DI.[50]

The exterior of the Department of Housing and Urban Development building in Washington, D.C. doubled as a hospital entrance.
The exterior of the Department of Housing and Urban Development building in Washington, D.C. doubled as a hospital entrance.[51]

The first eight weeks of filming took place in Los Angeles,[18] which accounted for the majority of the shooting schedule.[52] A "massive" newsroom set was built to act as the hub of operations for the fictional Washington Globe newspaper.[32] Costume designer Jacqueline West indicated that she looked to the newsroom of The Washington Post for inspiration, and used photos of The Baltimore Sun's newsroom to help her develop the journalists' looks.[53] The production moved to Washington, D.C. for five weeks of location filming towards the end of the shoot,[52][54] commencing on March 6, 2008.[35] More than a third of State of Play was shot in Washington, D.C.,[18] with filming taking place throughout the city.[35] The filmmakers estimated that State of Play may have set a record for the longest studio shoot in the city.[9] Locations included the neighborhoods of Shaw,[55] and Mount Pleasant.[56] Scenes set on Mount Pleasant Street were also filmed at the Los Angeles studio, where a full replica of the strip's facade was built.[57] In Georgetown, menswear store The District Line was transformed into a household goods store to shoot a chase scene for the film's opening sequence.[58] Filming took place on various streets in Washington, D.C.,[59][60] including the U Street Corridor,[61] and at "practically every major landmark",[9] including outside the headquarters of the World Bank on Pennsylvania Avenue,[59] around Capitol Hill,[62] at the Supreme Court building,[63] outside the Library of Congress,[46] and at the Washington Monument.[9] Other locations included landmark restaurant Ben's Chili Bowl,[61] where restaurant workers were employed as extras,[63] and the Maine Avenue Fish Market.[61] The exterior of the Department of Housing and Urban Development building was used to double as a hospital entrance. In preparation for filming, eighteen two-foot by three-foot photographs of Secretary Alphonso Jackson were removed from the entrance.[51] The production's "working week" was Wednesdays to Sundays, because several of the government buildings featured could not be used for filming during regular work days.[64] The Harbour Square Owners Cooperative complex in Washington, D.C. doubled as the home of Affleck's character.[65]

The Rosslyn Metro station is the setting for a scene in which a character is struck by a train. The station was chosen by the filmmakers for its long escalator which leads directly onto a platform.
The Rosslyn Metro station is the setting for a scene in which a character is struck by a train. The station was chosen by the filmmakers for its long escalator which leads directly onto a platform.[5]

A key scene in which a character is struck by a train takes place on the Washington, D.C. Metro. Filming for the scene took place at the Rosslyn Metro station in Virginia. The Rosslyn station was chosen because it was the only station in the Metro system to have a long escalator leading to a platform, with trains passing at the same times on upper and lower levels.[5] Filming also took place at night aboard two railcars at the Forest Glen Metro station in Maryland.[66][5] The railcars cost the production $1,000 per hour, for at least 10 hours use. Permission to film at the stations was granted after the script was vetted by the Metro's media relations office, which is notoriously discriminating about which productions it allows to film on the Metro. After the deaths of three Metro employees in 2006, the office was reluctant to allow filming of the scene, but because the script didn't explicitly show a death, the office assented. Scenes on the Metro had to meet strict standards for logistics and safety. The portrayal of anything illegal in the system was not allowed, nor was showing characters eating, drinking, jumping over fare gates, or running on the tracks. The production also had to agree to film scenes at the busy Rosslyn station at times when the system was least busy: late at night and after rush hour. Producer E. Bennett Walsh said that the production chose not to shoot on the less restrictive Baltimore subway, which has substituted for Washington, D.C. in other films which have come up against the Metro's rules, because "To shoot any other subway, you would know you're not in Washington."[5]

Scenes were filmed at the Watergate complex, for which the production was granted permission to use the roof of a George Washington University campus building.[59] Scenes were also filmed in the morgue of the St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, California.[67] Washington, D.C. police officer Quintin Peterson was employed as a consultant on the film. Peterson, who has acted as a script consultant and technical adviser on numerous productions in the city, helped the production to accurately depict the city's police force.[63]

Filming took place on the steps of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry temple in Washington, D.C. Maryland's Montgomery Blair High School provided a marching band for the background. They were joined by players from the school's production of the Beauty and the Beast musical and students from Paint Branch High School's Winter guard to act as Color guard for the scene.[68][69] Macdonald's aim was to recreate a famous 1970s Canadian photograph, which depicts rifle-twirling majorettes, in order to emphasize militaristic themes and to comment upon the place of guns in American society. The aesthetic also appealed to Macdonald: "it's just very colorful and beautiful and very American—like a piece of anthropology in America."[18]

The majority of filming over the last three weeks of the shoot took place at night. Filming for these scenes usually began at 5:00 p.m. and finished at 5:00 a.m.[64] A scene filmed under the Key Bridge in Georgetown on April 6, 2008 was the last in the principal photography stage.[9]

[edit] Music

Macdonald's regular musical collaborator Alex Heffes is scoring the film. Heffes, who provided the music for Macdonald's One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland, is recording the music in the United Kingdom. He indicated his preference to "score around the words", rather than through the dialogue, and said that (as he did on previous works) he would conduct the orchestra himself to enable re-scoring as the recording session proceeded. Macdonald prefers to involve Heffes early on in production; unusually for the film industry, for State of Play he had Heffes write some of the music in advance of principal photography based upon the script, to "give a flavour of where [the film] is going". Heffes said that he and Macdonald had decided to take the score in "quite an unusual direction" and that the idea of "going off the beaten track" with the music was an exciting prospect and "liberating". Grammy Award-winning record producer "Flood" (aka Mark Ellis) is working with Heffes on the film. Heffes said that working with Flood "opened his mind" and that they were "trying to push the boundaries a little bit". He said that in producing the score, Flood brought an aesthetic to recording the instruments that was atypical for film recording sessions.[70]

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