American filmmaker Amma Asante has revealed that she plans to start principal photography in 12 months on the long-awaited project “The Billion Dollar Spy”. Production is currently halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Adapted from David E. Hoffman’s best-selling book of the same name, Benjamin August (“Remember”), the production of Walden Media and Wade Road Pictures will tell the true story of one of the most influential people in the Pentagon’s last years. He had become a valuable spy cold War. Akiva Goldsman is ready to go.
“You know that the aesthetic that I wanted was to cover the snow and cover as much real snow as possible and that would limit the time of year,” Asante said. “I think that will happen in the next 12 months.”
Asante was talking to Scottish radio DJ and TV presenter Edith Bowman, who discussed her award-winning career as part of the Virtual BAFTA Master class, which included the London Film Festival and San Francisco. Sebastian includes two BAFTA as well as Gong.
Asante’s film credits include “A Way of Life,” “Belle,” “The United Kingdom” and “Wherever hands touch“. Television credits include episodes of “A handmade tale” and “Mrs. America.”
A way of life
Asante spoke openly about the obstacles facing the industry, despite winning the Carl Foreman Award in 2005 for highly specialized newcomers to BAFTAs for their first feature “A Way of Life”. “I want to say that when I won my BAFTA, I talked about 10 years before making another film, and there are directors who are not black and there are not women who are the same. BAFTA won – for a debut, producer, or writer – and when I started making another film, I made more films than I did.
“You get into a situation where the industry says, ‘We need experienced people.’ Well, of course, people will be more experienced if they have more opportunities, and you have fewer opportunities. “So we’re in the Catch 22 situation in the industry setup. It’s designed to limit the many of us who look like us while gaining experience like me while giving those who are more diligent, clean, More than us, but those who manage to make the most award-winning films and work with big actors and big names only because they have been able to present their art. “
“We have to be tough and keep changing, and I have a way of doing that, although it frustrates me. Is it that for every film I’m in control of, I make sure I have less There is at least one emerging film. Women filmmakers are casting me over this film, “said Asante.” In my last film, as most people know, I had four films.
