Steven Soderbergh’s Completely Useless Wrap Statistics For ‘The Knick’ Season 2

2023-01-18T01:30:17+00:00January 4th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

The tales of Steven Soderbergh‘s efficiency are legion, but you might make the mistake in thinking he takes an industrial view of filmmaking. Instead, his approach is a product of his years in the game, a process to get the best results without any wasted time or resources, and a method that keeps things interesting for the ensemble of actors he works. But never has this been as pronounced as in the making of “The Knick,” Soderbergh’s superb Cinemax series, which has seen him direct, edit, produce, and act as his own cinematographer across two full seasons.

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“Actors love working with this guy, because they’re not sitting around all day waiting for the set to be lit,”

Clive Owen on The Knick Finale, Cocaine, and the Plan for Season 2

2015-04-02T22:35:04+00:00April 2nd, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

…we shot the thing in 73 days. It was like the length of a really big movie. Apart from the amount we were getting through each day, which was an awful lot. We moved so quickly. I think our record was 13 pages of dialogue in one day.

A record of thirteen pages in a day is amazing in its own right, but a marathon of 73 days resulting in ~600 minutes of screen time is bonkers. To put it in perspective, the extended edition of the lord of the rings is about 650 minutes.

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