{"id":91254,"date":"2024-10-23T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=91254"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:01:13","slug":"keanu-reeves-gets-honest-about-film-making-very-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/91254\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves gets honest about film-making: &#8216;Very tough&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times) Keanu Reeves has starred in over a dozen films but admits filmmaking is a tough business. Appearing at Southbank Centre\u2019s London Literature Festival, the\u00a0<em>John Wick\u00a0<\/em>star was promoting his novel\u00a0<em>The Book of Elsewhere<\/em>, which he co-wrote with China Mi\u00e9ville. During the conversation, he was asked whether he would play the lead character in his book\u2014an immortal warrior named B\u2014in a film. The<em>\u00a0Toy Story 4\u00a0<\/em>star response was that the character is \u201cvery personal\u201d to him and that he would \u201clove to play the character.\u201d However, the questions did not stop there. The journalist Samira Ahmed, who was moderating the session, probed further, asking whether a movie was being made. Answering yes, Keanu noted the hurdles in the filmmaking business, saying that \u201cmovies are tough to get made.\u201d Explaining the likely movie ideas further, he said, \u201cOne of the ideas for me, from the very beginning, was to take this character and this world and have other mediums and other artists tell these stories. In the comics, we\u2019ve had different writers and different artists work on them, and in the novel, we worked with China\u201d. \u201cWith the film, we are working with a writer called Mattson Tomlin and we have a director\u2019s draft&#8221; .&#8221;So, I\u2019m interested in letting other artists play with the material and see what we can create. Hopefully, some cool stuff can come\u00a0out\u00a0of\u00a0it,&#8221; Keanu concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times) Keanu Reeves has starred in over a dozen films but admits filmmaking is a tough business. Appearing at Southbank Centre\u2019s London Literature Festival, the\u00a0John Wick\u00a0star was promoting his novel\u00a0The Book of Elsewhere, which he co-wrote with China Mi\u00e9ville. 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