Sometimes the best things about films is the links between them. Not only links in stories and working out the references, Kevin Smith films for Star Wars, etc but links between cast & crew. JJ Abrahms often reuses actors for different projects, so does Aaron Sorkin, Martin Scorsese and you can see why. You get a continuity between films and obviously it’s easier to work with people you already know.
After watching The Damned United Kate and I had lots to talk about, it was a great film and needs no knowledge of liking of football to enjoy and Martin Sheen was as always eerily great at portraying and real life character. We were thinking that a Martin Sheen / Peter Morgan (screenwriter of The Queen, Frost/Nixon and Damned United) would be a great watch. Another example of reusing people in projects.
I also like it when you get a sort of apex of talent coming together in one great project. We were re watching State of Play this weekend (still not sure about going to see the film – American rewrites not the most appealing although I did end up liking High Fidelity – but would I like it more if it were still set in London?). So many people you recognise in it – Bill Nighy, John Simm, Paddy & Debby from Shameless. All of course there because it was written by Paul Abbot.
