Prince Avalanche
Prince Avalanche is a 2013 comedydrama film starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. It was directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the screenplay based on the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way annan veg. The film was shot in Bastrop, Texas, after the Bastrop County Complex fire.
The idea of making Prince Avalanche came when the band Explosions in the Sky proposed the idea of making a movie with director David Gordon Green at Bastrop State Park, which was being restored following the 2011 Bastrop County Complex fire. Adapted from Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurssons 2011 film Either Way, the script for Prince Avalanche consisted of roughly 65 pages aboutpages short of an average featurelength screenplay. From development onward, the film was fast tracked to completion. We really didnt have time for proper or traditional development, said Gordon Green. We had the idea in February of 2012, we were filming in May, and sound mixing in July. It was an unusually tight production schedule. Paul Rudd joked to an Entertainment Weekly interviewer, I found the biggest challenge of working on this was trying to stifle my alphamale masculinity.The films entire production was done in secret it was only announced to the public after completion in June 2012. This was at the request of the director, David Gordon Green, who wanted to get back to his independent roots after his last three films were completed by a major film studio. Principal photography for Prince Avalanche began in May 2012 and lasted fordays in Bastrop State Park. Because of its scale, the film was shot with a small 15person film crew. While already midshoot, the film crew came across Joyce Payne, a resident of the area whose home was destroyed in the fire. Fascinated by her story, Gordon Green included her in the film. It wasnt scripted at all it was something very real for her that we documented, said Gordon Green. It ended up being pivotal. I couldnt imagine the movie without it now. ........
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