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- The Oxford-born theater-trained actor says the opportunity presented itself when the film lost its original director before production was set to begin, and it seemed as good a time as any for him to step up, especially because he connected viscerally to the Emma Needell-penned script.
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May 13, 2021 · And once Selma‘s awards season run concluded in 2015, Oyelowo turned his attention to a script on The Black List called The Water Man.
May 10, 2021 · David Oyelowo talks about directing The Water Man, the fantasy films that inspired him growing up, and the filmmakers he screened the movie for.
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May 6, 2021 · David Oyelowo was looking for a very particular kind of project when he read Emma Needell’s script for The Water Man back in 2015. The veteran actor is a passionate fan of a specific kind of nuanced, expansive child-led films that one could argue had their heyday back in the 1980s.
May 4, 2021 · We talk about her adventurous spirit as a child who conjured stories around world-building and myth-making, her journey as a screenwriter to writing and making The Water Man, and her successful collaboration with director David Oyelowo.
May 10, 2021 · But with The Water Man, David Oyelowo, our director, sent me the script. I read it and loved it, and for all the reasons that he's been talking about why he made the film, because he's a big...
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May 6, 2021 · David Oyelowo's first feature film as a director is "The Water Man," about an 11-year-old boy who tries to find a man he's heard has the secret of eternal life. In an interview, Oyelowo talked about creating a mix of magic and mystery, what he learned not to do from other directors, and switching a character's gender in order to cast an ...
May 5, 2021 · So, when The Water Man found its way onto The Black List (the most-liked un-produced Hollywood scripts) and, thankfully, crossed paths with me, it was something I desperately wanted to see in...
