Eddie Redmayne‘s upcoming collaboration with Kore-eda Hirokazu is still at the screenplay stage, the Japanese filmmaker said Wednesday at a Busan International Film Festival press conference for his manga adaptation “Look Back.” “Right now, I am writing the script,” Kore-eda said about the Searchlight Pictures film. Please look forward to it.” The director did not disclose a title. He expects to go public formally next year at the earliest and hopes to bring that film to Busan as well.
The festival has kept inviting Kore-eda back since his debut, and the opening ceremony even featured a piece of music named after him. He was joined by “Look Back” cast members Deguchi Natsuki, Makita Aju, Mori Nana and Ishikawa Ruka. Kore-eda stumbled on the manga in a bookshop rather than through its serial run.
As soon as the adaptation was confirmed, Kore-eda pushed for 35mm across all four seasons, in line with his longstanding conviction that anything that can be shot on celluloid ought to be. After a competition win, Fujino remarks that her dream was to see her manga animated, a comment that temporarily splits the two central characters. Kore-eda said the animation Fujino later makes stands in for a future the pair never got to share.
For the last of these, she said, Kore-eda instructed her, “Show Kyoko through your back.” After a long stretch shooting in Akita with her co-star, Deguchi found herself filming alone. Makita, who plays Kyoko, is at Busan for the first time. Mori said she had done the Venice red carpet too, though the mood in Korea struck her as different.
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