Watch as director George Clooney talks about taking Daniel James Brown's novel The Boys In The Boat from page to the big screen!
The Boys In The Boat Cast:
Callum Turner, Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Peter Guinness and Alec Newman
The Boys In The Boat will hit theaters December 25, 2023!
The Boys In The Boat Cast:
Callum Turner, Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Peter Guinness and Alec Newman
The Boys In The Boat will hit theaters December 25, 2023!
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00:00 There were a lot of challenges in adapting the book because it's a book and it's thick
00:08 and he's got a lot of storylines in it.
00:09 So we had to pick the greatest hits, you know.
00:13 The reality is you could do Boys in the Boat, a six-part series, and then you'd be able
00:17 to sort of go through all of the back story of Joe, which is a heartbreaking story.
00:22 So the hardest, the main part was that you wanted to be cinematic.
00:27 You know that you have to deal with the races and you have to make them sort of special.
00:31 You know that you have to talk about some version of where they came from and you have
00:35 a beautiful love story.
00:36 And so those were the main focuses.
00:38 And the rest of the stuff that's the, when you read the book, it's so beautiful.
00:42 It's beautiful prose.
00:43 It's beautifully written.
00:46 You have to pick and choose your battles on those.