One of the many challenges Noah Baumbach faced adapting Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel was creating the 'airborne toxic event' at the story’s heart.
have featured plenty of relationship disasters and emotional blow-ups. But there have been no actual explosions, no big car crashes, no visual effects.
“It is sort of a meditation on death wrapped in a love letter to the ’80s and sometimes a screwball comedy,” Don Cheadle, who co-stars alongside Driver and Greta Gerwig, offers by way of description. “I was really interested in adapting the tone and the particular strangeness of the book, which is also very familiar,” says Baumbach, who has earned two Oscar nominations for original screenplay but had never before adapted someone else’s work. “There are many movies that have these unreal tones to them, where you’re like, ‘This is totally not what I expected but also feels very much how the world feels to me.’ There are filmmakers like David Lynch who have made whole careers out of that.
“During those evacuation scenes, you would hear the AD say, ‘OK, now, everybody take off your masks and put on the period masks,’” says Baumbach. “You didn’t feel the remove from the craziness we were all experiencing.”
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