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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Bones And All" Screenwriter, David Kajganich

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

"Bones And All" had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it received positive notices for how well it blended different genres to create a moving, layered and singular work. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, screenwriter David Kajganich is reuniting with director Luca Guadagnino after previously collaborating on "A Bigger Splash" and "Suspiria," and the result has put the film in the awards conversation. David was kind enough to talk about the adaptation process, the themes, the characters, and how he and Luca came up with a different ending than the novel. Please take a listen and enjoy! Thank you.   Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the writer for Bones and All, David Cajanick.

0:07.7

We kill the flame.

0:11.4

You know, I'm thinking of a bad person.

0:12.8

He needy, he, may, me.

0:15.1

All I think is that I love you.

0:17.7

You look like the kind that's convinced himself he's got this under his thumb.

0:21.5

He may need.

0:22.3

Let you pull him on the thread.

0:24.8

I'm ready.

0:28.5

My lord.

0:32.8

All right, everybody.

0:33.7

I'm being joined here today by David Cajanickick the screenwriter for the new film from lucianino

0:39.3

bones and all david how are you today i'm really well how are you met i'm doing great doing great

0:44.9

for those that don't know i'm sure nobody knows this you and i have spoken before we actually

0:51.3

conducted this interview a couple days ago during a new york film festival and by the end of it, I realized, oh, God, this wasn't being recorded.

0:59.5

Conversation was so good, though, that David has agreed to come back again, and I'm glad he has, because I want to definitely express to everyone how intricately layered and complex bones and all is, and it's mostly due to your adaptation.

1:12.8

Can you first talk to me about the discovery of the book and how it came to be in your possession,

1:21.7

if you will, and then how you ultimately came on board the project?

1:25.2

It was sent to me. Thank you for saying all that. It was sent to me by a producer I never met before with a very sort of strongly worded email

1:32.2

that she really thought I was the right person to adapt this. And when that happens, and it doesn't

1:36.5

happen a lot, frankly, that somebody is that sort of passionate about the idea of you're doing a

1:42.2

project. I always take it very seriously and read it.

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