you can't do something as major as what Brandon did at our high school and not have a huge impact
I remember my first day at bearstone Academy it was junior year day one classroom door opened and
there he was so basically all those classmates were kind of waiting for this film to appear
we were always aware you know Brandon had written this Memoir back in the day and had sold the movie
rights and it was going to be this film it's going to be called younger than Springtime it was going
to be directed by and Starr Alan [ __ ] as Brandon um so when that um never appeared you know for
whatever reason you know films fall through and they don't happen um we were all kind of slightly
disappointed decades pass and nope still nobody had told this story on film certainly nobody had
reached out to the classmates and the teachers in the way that we ended up doing is the first
time it's been told by so many people who were there at the time not just by Brandon himself
I knew that it was a bit weird that our lead actor would be a name actor so you'd know up
front that it was Alan coming so that's why we explained at the start of the film Allen's
connection to the story his take is that it's the beauty of growing older is when things come
back into your life that you thought you would never see again um and in a film about going
back in time and reconnecting with your younger self then I just it just felt perfect that the
person who should play the present day Brandon should be the man who who was meant to do that
all these years ago police found that Lee had two passports people thought he might be a spy
and that was when he said my name isn't Brandon Lee and I'm not who you think I am oh what
big big part of why we bought the story was the North American thing we were used to seeing
90210 in Greece and all those TV shows and movies were 30 year olds played American
teenagers so I think subconsciously or or overtly we thought that's what North Americans looked like
so you know and he named himself after the character from 90210 you know there was a
fake there's lots of stitching into kind of popular culture and the name Brandon
Lee in that whole debate we have about why choose that name two months after
the death um of Brandon Lee on the certainly cruel like all of that is so fascinating and it's so 90s
as well and that's really the aesthetic that I wanted to kind of capture in the film and with
the music and all that kind of stuff is you know we we're certainly hitting a 90s kind of zeitgeist
it's a story which is seemingly never ending basically every high school movie is sort of
the same plot a stranger arrives in a high school and things will never be the same
again that's the plot of the service love it's the plot of Gregory's girl
um and you know even Romy and Michelle that Alan was in is about people who go back to school
and create entirely new lives for themselves as inventors of the poster so um you know I felt like
I wanted to reference all that for me this was the ultimate high school movie that happened in our
class and so you know that's basically what I've made I think possibly maybe some people hear the
outline of this plot and they think they're coming to see the Tinder swindler or the Imposter but
I've I I've kind of made the Gregory's girl like kind of high school movie and I wanted to capture
kind of that sort of sweetness if you really want to Prevail you have to do the unimaginable
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