‘I’m used to that’: Baz Luhrmann on polarising critics and his next project | gmaddox
“What happens if I ever get a film where all these critics love it? It’ll probably be a dog.”While admitting he would not mind five-star reviews all the time, Luhrmann recognises that his films cover themes that come out of left field.
While it was warmly received at the Sydney premiere at the State Theatre on Sunday, there were fears the film would never get made when Hanks tested positive for COVID-19 just three days before the start of shooting in March 2020. But he returned to the Gold Coast later that year – going through two weeks in hotel quarantine – to resume filming.
Luhrmann mentioned one possible big story for the future at a Vivid Ideas talk on Sunday – a film about the famous New York nightclub Studio 54 – but won’t decide what comes next for some time yet.: head off for an anonymous solo break somewhere unlikely in the world. Producer Schuyler Weiss, Baz Luhrmann, Olivia DeJonge, Austin Butler and Tom Hanks at the Sydney premiere of ELVIS at the State Theatre on Sunday night.“I’ll spend some time going, ‘I’m 60, what does that mean?’,” he says. “I’ll grow old disgracefully but I don’t feel I’ve really got going yet.
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