You know, writing this post is a little bitter sweet. It's bitter because a bunch of you don't know who Wally Pfister is and by merely writing this news I come off like a pretentious asshole who knows more than you. I mean, it's probably true, as far as strange facts about film goes, but that's cause it's my job. So I'm sorry. I promise I'm not judging you for not knowing things. I'm here to help, people.
The sweet news is Wally Pfister is going to be making his directorial debut. Who is this guy that I'm so fondly writing about? He's the Oscar winning cinematographer who works primarily with Christopher Nolan (as well as Moneyball, The Italian Job and the awesome Scotland, PA). Nominated for Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight and finally winning for Inception, this guy is on fire and the fact that he's moving to directing feature films is really, REALLY great news. Especially because he gave me the heebie-jeebies in those Montana Meth commercials.
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And he won't be without his good buddy Nolan. Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas (who's pretty awesome herself) are going to be executive producers on the currently untitled film, along with Alcon Entertainment.
My hope is in the future people will know cinematographers' names just as much as they know directors, actors and big name producers. But right now, I'll settle on just a few of you walking away from this post and saying to yourself, "Hey, that Wally guy seems pretty cool."
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