DIRECTOR JOE WRIGHT TAKES US BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF HIS ADAPTATION OF THE EPIC LOVE STORY.
Last spring, Joe Wright had a big perplexing idea. After having scouted locations in St. Petersburg and Moscow for his screen version of Anna Karenina, he decided to start all over—two months before shooting began. “I was in danger of doing things I’d done before,” explains the British director, who’d already made two literary costume dramas, 2005’s Pride and Prejudice and 2007’s Atonement, both with Keira Knightley, who signed on to play Anna.
Instead, Wright devised a novel way to shoot Tom Stoppard’s screenplay. Nearly every scene, through a combination of creative staging and postproduction magic, would appear to be set on a stage: the opera, a ball, horse racing, ice skating—all of it contained within a theater. “It allowed me to explore the idea that society life in late-19th-century Russia was very much a performance,” he explains.
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