After premiering out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, Friedkin’s final film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, will air next month on Showtime
Based on the 1954 play by Herman Wouk, who adapted it for the stage from his 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the movie follows court-martialed Lt. Steve Maryk , who stands accused of mutiny after relieving his mentally unstable commanding officer, Lt. Queeg , of duty. But the trailer is teeming with actors putting on a clinic.
producer Annabelle Dunne revealed the “state secret” that Guillermo Del Toro served as a contractually-mandated back-up director for Friedkin due to his age because “Hollywood is ageist.” Dunn recalled raising the issue with Friedkin, who told her he needed to consider it. The next day, Friedkin called her and said, “Ok, honey, I have the guy. Get a pen: It’s Guillermo Del Toro, you got that?” Del Toro, busy promoting his Oscar-winningat the time, told Dunne, “I am going to come to set every single day and sit next to you.”
“It was a joy for all of us, including the actors, to have his presence there,” she said. “He made it abundantly clear it was Billy’s movie. He said he was our mascot.”Following Friedkin’s death, Del Toro wrote of his experience on set with Friedkin and how masterfully he worked. The production was short on time, so Friedkin expected everyone to be off-book by the time cameras rolled.
“The business tends to enthrone the rough and blustery gestures, but here we had a master - one loved by cast and crew, knowingly and wisely turning a checkmate into a victory solely with gentle empathy: he knew,” del Toro wrote. “Great men are rare. Good men are even more so. I am grateful to have met Billy and to have shared many an evening with him and Sherry and my Kim. He has barely left, and I already miss him horribly.
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