Yesterday, Thursday, February
28 at the Sundance Film Festival director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World)
partook in a panel titled Power of Story: The Art Of Film alongside fellow
filmmakers Christopher Nolan (Interstellar), Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip),
and cinematographer Rachel Morrison (Fruitvale Station).
The theme of the panel was
celluloid and its appeal to filmmakers, and among the discussion (which
inevitably ended on film vs. digital), Trevorrow, who dabbles in both formats,
revealed that he will shoot Star Wars: Episode IX on film because it is similar
to a period piece.
"If we’re going to have
any kind of conversation about film versus digital, the only place where I tend
to not be able to attach myself to something shot digitally is when that’s a
period film," he said. "There’s something in my brain that says ‘well
they didn’t have video cameras then, they couldn’t do that.’… We found as we
were cutting [The Book of Henry] that there’s a sense to the importance
of every shot, there’s things that if they were digital maybe we might allow
but because they’re on film we have to honor it and make it filmworthy. That’s
where it comes for me, not so much how film looks but how film feels and how it
tends to remind us of our memories, of our childhood, the way we used to see
films…"
…
"Star Wars gets
back to my issue about shooting digital for period films," says Trevorrow.
"I could never shoot Star Wars on anything but Scope 35 and 65, because
it’s a period film, it happened a long time ago."
It's worth pointing out that of
the seven Star Wars movies, two were shot using digital cameras (Episodes II
and III), one used both processes (Episode I), and only the Original Trilogy
and The Force Awakens used only film.
Star Wars: Episode IX opens in 2019.
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