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Greengrass on confronting the alt-right in '22 July'

By JAKE COYLE microscope. You see the
TORONTO (AP) — With world writ large, the DNA of
handheld cameras in tow, where we are today.
Paul Greengrass has head- AP: What initially led you
ed straight into real-life hor- to making a film about the
rors to make visceral, im- Norway attacks?
mersive fiction films: a 1972 Greengrass: I had wanted
massacre in North Ireland to make a film about the
("Bloody Sunday"), the Sep- migration crisis. I looked
tember 11 terrorist attacks at the runs by which they
("United 93") and the Soma- come in through Europe:
li hijacking of a cargo ship through Greece and Les-
("Captain Phillips"). bos, from Syria and the
His latest, "22 July," recre- North African ones. I spent
ates the 2011 attacks in quite a bit of time with the
Oslo and at the Norwe- boats and the rest of it, try-
gian summer camp Utoya ing to figure out a movie
where 77 were killed and with that as a backdrop.
110 were injured by far-right But the more I did it, it be-
terrorist Anders Behring came overwhelmed by
Breivik. While Greengrass the bigger story, which was
opens "22 July" with the Brexit in my country — and
bombing and shooting, the This image released by Netflix shows Isak Bakli Aglen, left, and Jonas Strand Gravli in a scene from the rhetoric of Brexit — and
movie is really about the "22 July," a docudrama about the 2011 Norway terrorist attack. Trump, obviously. It be-
attack's aftermath. Breivik's Associated Press came obvious to me that
trial — and the intolerant, the film was not about the
anti-multiculturalism ideol- "22 July," which debuted said. "Democracy doesn't those people, by your craft, migrant experience. The
ogy he espouses — tests Wednesday on Netflix and just happen. It has to be to make the best, most re- story was about what was
Norway's democracy. in select theaters, is for the won on the level of ideas. It sponsible, most serious happening to the politics in
"It's about how Norway 63-year-old British filmmak- has to be fought for." film you can make once the West. We were witness-
fought for their democ- er about a growing, global AP: Do you consider "Unit- you've said to yourself and ing a huge counter-reac-
racy in the shadow of a battle, in microcosm. In ed 93" and "22 July" linked answered the question: tion to globalization.
right-wing insurgency," an interview last month, in any way? Is this a necessary film to AP: So you turned to Breivik
says Greengrass. "It's a film Greengrass spoke about Greengrass: They're tough make? I've tried my best as a symbol of this shift.
about Norway then but it's "22 July" and the future of making these films. "22 July" to be dispassionate and Greengrass: What he
actually about us today or democracy. and "United 93," in my mind compassionate. Whether thought he was doing was
tomorrow." "We're being tested," he I saw them as different films it's '93' or this, it's an isolated striking a blow and raising
but related. I'm not saying, moment and if you look at the standard of rebellion
'Poor me.' You try to do the it in its granular detail, it's and that people would fol-
absolute best you can by like looking at it through a low him. q

'Wonder Woman' sequel pushed

back to summer 2020

open on June 5, 2020. The
film starring Gal Gadot as
the Amazonian superhero
had been slated for a No-
vember 2019 release.
Patty Jenkins is returning as
director and has teased
fans with tidbits about the
series' time jump to the
1980s.
The first "Wonder Woman"
was a major blockbuster for
Warner Bros.' DC Comics
franchise. The film earned
more than $800 million
This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal globally. The original be-
Gadot in a scene from "Wonder Woman." Warner Bros. came the most successful
Associated Press live-action film directed by
a woman.
Associated Press will now arrive in theaters in The sequel would have
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The summer 2020. been released a month
world will have to wait a Warner Bros. announced after the "Joker" which is
little longer for the "Won- Monday that "Wonder scheduled to open on Oct.
der Woman" sequel, which Woman 1984" will now 4, 2019.q