He doubts that making movies, or going to see them, will happen anytime soon.
“They ain’t doing a thing until the vaccine,” said Lee. “I know I’m not going to a movie theater. I know I’m not going to a Broadway show. I know I’m not going to Yankee Stadium.” He urged caution on resuming productions, despite the economic hurt: “Corona is a bitch. Corona is not playing. You fuck around, you’re going to get killed, you’re going to die. I’m not ready to go.”
As a producer and director, Lee’s been thinking about ways to make production safe, but doesn’t see a feasible solution. “How are you going to do a love scene anymore, or an intimate scene? I mean, are you going to do a movie by remote, like Saturday Night Live?… I don’t know how you do that,” he said. “So, we’re on pause now.”
Jennifer Lopez recently experimented with remote filmmaking to shoot a scene for her film Marry Me, opposite Colombian singer Maluma. “It was remote moviemaking with social distancing, with people in your house and on Zoom and Maluma in Colombia and us reading the scene together,” she said. “And then somebody [was] on his side shooting his [lines] and they set up a camera in my house that was static and shooting me.”
“It was crazy. But it was kind of an amazing feat,” she added.
It worked, said Lopez, because it was a simple scene: “I wouldn’t recommend this is how we do movies from now on."
But she’s not expecting a return to normal anytime soon either. “At the end of the day, it's safety first,” she said. “You would hope that there’s a vaccine, but I think that’s not something that pops up overnight. That’s going to take time for people to figure out.”
Tests and Isolation
Masks, temperature checks, and daily COVID tests feel like a certainty. And even then, a positive test could upend the whole production, so producers believe that even more isolating measures are necessary.
Among the most likely proposals is a new modular structure to crews. Construction crews do their work and leave. Then lighting crews come in and set up for the next day. The actors have their private makeup and costumers. The camera crews keep their distance from the actors. At the end of the shift, everyone would also be sequestered from any social interaction outside their pod, for the duration of the shoot.
It’s not a perfect system, and it could sap some of the flexibility and morale from the crew, but it may be the fastest way to get them back to work in a way that’s safe. If someone gets sick, the whole pod might be out of work and need to be replaced. But the rest of the crew could go on.
Roland Emmerich, the director-producer behind Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and last year’s Midway, plans to start shooting his new sci-fi epic, Moonfall, sometime this fall with Halle Berry, Josh Gad, and others, so he is following all the proposed safety guidelines as they take shape. He hasn’t lost any cast to fears of the coronavirus, although he admitted he felt a little worried himself. “When you’re a little bit older—and I’m turning 65 this year—you get a little bit more careful about things,” he said.
He wants to make movies again, but foresees a very different landscape.
“I’m so used to being at the set and having everybody on standby which probably you cannot have anymore,” he said. “There are also ideas that also will make movies more expensive.... They want to have safety people on staff. They want to have necessarily more people on staff, but you also have to keep everybody in groups,” he explained. “Like a makeup person can only do one actor. She cannot do two or three actors, which is normally what makeup people do, so that costs money.” It also means separate trailers for each makeup person, which adds to the price tag.
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