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Dec 26, 2017 · Darkest Hour writer-producer Anthony McCarten was understandably intimidated when he set out to tackle Winston Churchill, Britain’s great wartime leader. “He was a bit of a wordsmith, old...
Feb 1, 2020 · Two years later, Darkest Hour again garnered McCarten an Oscar nomination as producer for best picture. An invitation for him to take a stab at Bohemian Rhapsody , the biopic examining...
Dec 23, 2019 · Catholic-raised Anthony McCarten tells Ben Dalton how the process led him to reassess popes Francis and Benedict XVI.
Dec 8, 2017 · We interview Darkest Hour writer Anthony McCarten about his approach to tackling biopics and how he wrote the character of Winston Churchill.
Anthony McCarten (born 28 April 1961) is a New Zealand writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing big-budget biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), The Two Popes (2019), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022).
However, he hesitated before taking on the legendary Winston Churchill for Darkest Hour, feeling somewhat daunted by the momentous period when Mussolini and Hitler threatened Europe. It took McCarten awhile before he felt he…
Dec 1, 2017 · Screenwriter Anthony McCarten on the challenge of writing Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's 'Darkest Hour' and his script for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with Rami Malek.
