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- Surprising even herself, Burch followed up May December by writing something completely different: Coyote vs. Acme, starring Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, and John Cena. "That's something I never thought I would get hired to do, and I got hired off May December 's script," she explains. "I didn't think I'd write for kids.
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- The movie was shot in just 23 days, meaning that there were "no Plan Bs" for if certain things didn't work. Director Todd Haynes told Deadline, "Nothing about this was spontaneous.
- The script, written by Samy Burch, was partially inspired by a real-life case. She told AwardsWatch, "I didn’t do much outside research at all because I grew up in the '90s, I grew up in tabloid culture.
- The script was initially set in the present day, but Todd moved it back to 2015. He explained to Vulture, "The original script for May December was set in the present, and I simply wanted to remove it from the Trump years and put it in the less intensely divisive years of the end of the Obama era.
- The music from The Go-Between by Michel Legrand was decided before the shoot and would sometimes even be played out loud on set. Todd said of their first scene, "I pointed to Ben, my assistant, I said, 'Hit it.'
Nov 20, 2023 · Screenwriter Samy Burch wrote the “May December” script to attract an agent—now it’s being hailed as one of the best of the year.
- Lisa Wong Macabasco
Feb 22, 2024 · Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik had a busy 2023. The pair got married, and in May, a film they had plotted together, and which Burch had scripted, premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
May December is a 2023 American black comedy drama [4] [5] [6] [7] film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik.
Jan 11, 2024 · Screenwriter Samy Burch explains the background to the Netflix film May December and the different reactions and questions it has inspired.
Dec 4, 2023 · Screenwriter Samy Burch on Building to That Final ‘Funny Punchline’ of ‘May December’. The writer of the Netflix melodrama reveals how she and director Todd Haynes found humor within their...
Nov 21, 2023 · The female antiheroes in Samy Burch‘s Nesting Doll of a script evoke identity-swapping psychodramas like Persona and Mulholland Drive, while Haynes’ cheeky direction twists the melodrama tropes he employed in the comparatively refined Safe, Far From Heaven, and Carol. It’s fun to unpack what’s said — and, more crucially, what’s left ...
