Director Debra Granik shouldve conceivably been able to make whatever she wanted after 2010sWinters Bone.
But that didnt happen, and Granik isnt quite sure why.
This is hard to talk about, really, the filmmaker admits during a lengthy phone conversation.
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I dont have the answer.
Buther adaptation of Russell BanksRule of the Bonefell apart.
Granik then wanted to bringAmerican High Lifeto HBO as a miniseries, but that didnt pan out either.
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Hollywood doesnt always like to take chances on fresh faces, especially ones untested in the American marketplace.
A role is never just a ready-made thing, she says.
They were really people of their word.
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They were very honorable people in the film-finance world, and thats kind of exciting.
And she just might have the Times Up movement to thank for that.
In January,Leave No Tracecame to the Sundance Film Festival in search of a distributor.
I think we realized it wasnt just gender stuff that had become toxic.
It was dealmaking, Granik recalls.
It was big, big Trumpian characters.
It wasnt just Harvey [Weinstein].
Theres other people in the streaming world that like to act like that too.
Its about the potential for the film not the cost.
Some of us are even in it for the slow returns, she says.
But Granik, in a way, has always operated outside the mainstream.
