Live by Night (2016) - written and directed by Ben Affleck. Hey TrueFilm! Just saw 'Live by Night' (2016). I'd be interested to read the shooting script for Live By Night, because it's only 2 hrs and 9 minutes, and feels like a story that should be a 3 hour epic. It would go from subversive/clever/profound in one scene.
Live By Night Script Scratch Scene Video
Some mediocre movies just don’t make sense; you can never understand why they went into production in the first place. The script was clearly a mess when someone bought it, it was never going to be profitable, and no one involved had the skill to pull it off. Why did they even bother?
Live By Night Script Scratch Scene Download
“Live by Night” makes total sense. On paper, it seems like a can’t-fail proposition. Not only is director Ben Affleck coming off a Best Picture Oscar for his last directorial effort, “Argo,” but he started his already-impressive directorial career with an adaptation of a novel by the same author of the source material, Dennis Lehane, who not only penned “Gone Baby Gone” but “Mystic River,” “Shutter Island,” and others. The cast is talented from top to bottom, including Oscar winners and charismatic actresses to play opposite Affleck. The sprawling gangster story was given more than enough budget to pull it off, and even landed a release date that typically coincides with awards attention. So, the key question behind “Live by Night” isn’t so much “Why did they bother?” as “What went wrong?”