In his new film “Stillwater,” co-writer/director Tom McCarthy wanted to present the image of an American hero – and then turn it on its head. The film, now in theaters, stars Matt Damon as Bill Bak…
McCarthy talked withabout Knox, how longform podcasts affected their structure, and the people of Oklahoma who helped bring “Stillwater” to life.With all my stories, I’m a bit of a magpie. I joke about my 8-year-old daughter being a magpie because she picks up everything she finds on the street and turns it into something. And I feel like that’s what I do with a story. I pick up bits and pieces that I start to accumulate and thinking, “Oh, that’s interesting.
I’m sure you’re aware Amanda Knox has taken issue with the film, saying it’s based too closely to her own story. What’s your response? One entry point for the screenwriting, for example, is the relationship that a relative of mine had with her father who was absent and struggled with addiction. I had a series of phone interviews with her as she carefully laid out the painful dynamic and dysfunction of their relationship and those conversations were core to the relationship between Bill and his daughter Allison and the film.
I mean, part of the reason I wanted Matt in this role is because it’s Bill Baker’s story, right? I knew I was going to have to get that character right and ultimately with the writers, we wanted to subvert the iconic hero. It’s a guy going over to help save his daughter. And in America in 2016, the world had changed and we wanted to invert that sort of cinematic stereotype in a way that maybe a thriller would.
Some people want a certain thing out of a movie or they go in thinking or knowing what a movie should be. Sometimes it’s based on a trailer or their own preconceived notion. And we wanted to play on that. At the time, the writers and I were listening to these great longform podcasts like “Serial” and “S-Town” and noticed how the stories took really unexpected journeys and had moments that came out of nowhere.
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