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Jul 8, 2021 · Metalhead was the concept of Derek Cianfrance, who was behind the camera and also directing. Derek came to a few shows and became intrigued with how we toured all the time, doing hundreds of shows with our wall of speakers while living in our RV. His idea was to document us while also shaping a fictional story.
Apr 22, 2021 · Inspired by the live show of real-life metal group Jucifer, director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) put together a project called Metalhead about 15 years ago....
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Cianfrance met Darius Marder at a children’s birthday party in Brooklyn in 2008. “I had just gotten back from shooting on Metalhead, and in the first moments of our first conversation, we talked about this story of the drummer,” says Cianfrance. The two men, who are both now in their mid-40s, hit it off. Marder had just made documentary feature Loo...
It did not help that Sound Of Metal was hardly the easiest sell. “Hollywood didn’t want to hear about two things — heavy metal and deaf people,” says Marder. “Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back for representing this, that or the other, but when you’re trying to do it, man, it got no love. It was the end of a conversation before it even began...
Ahmed spent seven months preparing for the role, learning American Sign Language and how to drum — a commitment that might not have been matched by another actor. With rising UK star Olivia Cooke also on board, and Mathieu Amalric in a small role towards the end of the film, Sound Of Metal secured financing and moved towards a summer 2018 shoot, ne...
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Jan 9, 2021 · “Sound of Metal'' was inspired by “Metalhead,” a scrapped film project by co-writer Derek Cianfrance (“I Know This Much Is True”) based on a true story about a drummer who loses his...
Since the early 2010s, Cianfrance had been working on a fictional documentary called Metalhead, which centered on a metal drummer who becomes deaf. The film featured the members of the band Jucifer portraying themselves.
Apr 1, 2021 · In 2007, Derek Cianfrance, a former drummer who contracted tinnitus, started shooting a docu-style drama called Metalhead. Cianfrance followed the metal group Jucifer on tour and asked the two-piece band to play themselves – only with a fictionalised subplot involving deafness.
Feb 2, 2021 · However, Marder had Cianfrance as a guide: “Sound of Metal” emerged from Cianfrance’s “Metalhead,” his unfinished documentary-narrative hybrid about a heavy-metal drummer with ruptured...
