Slipstream (2007 film)

Slipstream is a 2007 American film starring, written, scored, and directed by Anthony Hopkins, which explores the premise of a screenwriter who is caught in a slipstream of time, memories, fantasy and reality. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Hopkins composed the music for the film, while British composer Harry GregsonWilliams scored and produced it.

Im fascinated by time. Ive written a script about the nature of reality ... Its about reality and the illusion of life because life to me, as I get older, is so illusionlike, so dreamlike, that I think its all a dream. Its about a man, whos caught in a slipstream of time falling back on itself and he remembers his own future. My own interpretation is if theres a God, that God is actually time. Im fascinated by the fact the older I get every moment just slips past. What is real? You grasp this moment and then its gone. I was talkingminutes ago but thats all gone, its all a dream. Maybe the puzzle of life is asking what its all about. Ive got a theory that at the moment of impact of death well wake up and say, Ah, that was it all along. My life has been governed a lot by those thoughts and feelings.Hopkins initially shopped his script to studios for whom he had been bankable. Executives expressed interest as well as input for the script, but Hopkins refused to take the input. Hopkins showed the script to directorproducer Steven Spielberg, who praised the dialogue but warned that financing would be difficult. He proceeded to begin production, initiating filming on June 12, 2006 in Los Angeles and moved to the California desert. Hopkins rejected studios who wanted to have a final cut of the film, and he instead found a new, unidentified patron to finance the film for undermillion. During production, filmmakers invited six graduate students from Northern Illinois University to assist with the film for college credit. Hopkins also composed the score for Slipstream and conducted the orchestra for the music. In postproduction, Hopkins used quick editing and digital technology to edit a fastpaced cut of Slipstream to speed audiences through the film. ........

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