Jason Hall - Writer, Director

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE 61 - JASON HALL - Writer, Director

Team Deakins has a great conversation in this episode with writer and director, Jason Hall (THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, AMERICAN SNIPER). He takes us through the experience of writing the script for American Sniper. He literally had to wrestle for it! He talks about finding the story and dealing with the changes in the script during the course of find its way to the screen. He also walks us through the making of Thank You for Your Service, a movie that is a favorite of ours. We talked about how he approached it as a first time director and how he prepped for the movie. We learn about the casting of the movie and that he worked to surround the actors with things that resonate the truth. And the very important piece of advice that Taylor Hackford gave him during the editing period. He also talks about working with Spielberg, balancing commercial appeal with a meaningful story and the idea of directing a script he hasn’t written. We covered a lot of ground!

RECOMMENDED EPISODE VIEWING: Thank you for your Service

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This
0:07.5	podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James Deacons often joined in the
0:12.2	conversation by a guest.
0:14.6	It's very informal, and we never know where it will go.
0:18.6	We're connecting through Zoom, so bear that in mind
0:21.1	when you hear the audio.
0:23.5	If you'd like to submit a question or topic,
0:26.0	please do so by emailing pod,
0:29.1	p-o-d at Roger Deacons.com. This episode is sponsored by Otto Nemitz Camera Rental,
0:36.2	newly located in Culver City. Otto Nemitz is known for its premiere service
0:41.4	and support to productions for 41 years.
0:44.0	years.
0:45.0	Today we have a guest who's been an actor or writer and a director,
0:50.0	so you could say he knows many sides of movie making.
0:54.0	He wrote the screenplay for American sniper and directed a movie that's a favorite of ours.
0:59.0	Thank you for your service.
1:01.0	We'd like to welcome Jason Hall today.
1:03.7	Jason, thank you for doing this.
1:06.1	Thanks so much for having me guys.
1:07.7	Great to be with you.
1:10.1	We want to start and ask how you got to where you are now.
1:14.4	Obviously you went down a couple of different paths, so let us know.
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