Just wondering if someone was committed enough to make such a movie
Boyhood was shot over 12 years following the same cast.
Oh wow
It’s a great movie too.
Anything with Richard linklater and Ethan Hawke is usually amazing
It’s not as impressive as some of the other projects mentioned here, but there was a one-year hiatus during the filming of Cast Away to allow Tom Hanks to lose all (and more) of the weight he had gained for the first part of the movie. His beard and tan were earned honestly during that time as well.
the percentage of body weight that Disney made Carrie Fisher lose to come back for the sequels put her at a much higher risk for dying the way she did.
Flight of the Navigator.
David Scott Freeman was 12 at the start, and still with us eight years later…
My favorite Disney movie!
A bit off-topic, but apparently this is one of Denis Villeneuve’s reasons for wanting a hiatus before making a third Dune movie. Besides just wanting a break, he said he would also like to have the actors age a few years for the next one.
Not really what you’re after OP, but sort of similarish - David Lynch’s Eraserhead took about 5-6 years to make due to start-stop funding issues.
The story goes that Jack Nance kept his hair like this throughout that whole period.
“Die Kinder von Golzow” is a documentary following 18 children from 1961 to 2007 and consists of episodes like “Lebensläufe”, which was included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the movie with the longest production period:
Sounds like the movie Boyhood
Benjamin Button
Do flashbacks count?
Yes if it was intentionally and carefully planned according to the actors age. I understand it takes a lot of commitment, but wondering if there is such a movie out there where it is an important part of the plot as well.
Oh. Erm, never mind then. I only know of examples of “I took footage from earlier that wasn’t planned but we realized was usable”.
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Technically, every actor ages over the course of a film and plays a younger and older version of their character 🤓
there was some movie I read about where the actor had a heart attack walking through a doorway while filming, and the second half of the scene was shot much later after his recovery so he looks like he ages 10 years and loses 20 lbs as he walked through the door in the movie. can’t remember what film
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