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Knowing
Director: Alex Proyas
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Language: English
Country: United States
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Knowing is an 2009 science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment, which will also distribute the film. Knowing was filmed in Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the film’s setting, Boston. The film is released in March 20, 2009. Nicolas Cage stars in Summit Entertainment’s apocalyptic thriller Knowing, a tale concerning a father who finds a time capsule at his son’s school that predicts the end of the world and their direct connection to it. Dark City’s Alex Proyas directs the film from a script he worked on with a group of screenwriters, including book author Ryne Pearson.
A professor (Cage) finds that the contents of a time capsule at his son’s elementary school makes predictions of the future that have come true. The predictions lead the teacher to believe the world is ending, and that he and his son are involved in the apocalypse. Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the futureand sets out to prevent them from coming true.
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.
Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules contents and the girls cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB MYLES. But it is Calebs father, professor TED MYLES (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional eventsthe last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Teds attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of DIANA WHELAN and ABBY, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, Teds increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disasterand the ultimate sacrifice.
Knowing was originally written by novelist Ryne Pearson, and the project was set up at Columbia Pictures. Both Rod Lurie and Richard Kelly were attached as directors, but the film eventually went into turnaround. The project was picked up by the production company Escape Artists, and the script was rewritten by Stiles White and Juliet Snowden. Director Alex Proyas was attached to direct the project in February 2005. Summit Entertainment took on the responsibility to fully finance and distribute the film. Proyas and Stuart Hazeldine rewrote the draft for production, which began on March 25, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. The director hoped to emulate The Exorcist in melding “realism with a fantastical premise”.
The film is set in Boston, and to represent the city, filmmakers used Australian locations such as Camberwell High School, Geelong Ring Road, Melbourne Museum, Mount Macedon, and Collins Street. Filming also took place at Camberwell High School, which was converted into John Adams Elementary, set in Boston circa 1958. In addition to practical locations, filming also took place at the Melbourne Central City Studios in Docklands.
Proyas used a Red One digital camera, marking the film the first time the director used digital cameras. He sought to capture a gritty and realistic look to the film, and his approach involved a continuous two-minute take in which Cage’s character sees a plane crash and attempts to rescue passengers. The take was an arduous task, taking two days to set up and two days to shoot. Proyas explained the goal, “I did that specifically to not let the artifice of visual effects and all the cuts and stuff we can do, get in the way of the emotion of the scene.
Cast:
- Nicolas Cage as a professor
- Rose Byrne as the daughter of the woman who buried the time capsule
- Chandler Canterbury as the professor’s son
- Ben Mendelsohn … Phil Bergman
- Chandler Canterbury … Caleb
- Terry Camilleri … Cashier
- Adrienne Pickering … Allison
- Nadia Townsend … Grace Koestler
- Liam Hemsworth … Spencer
- Danielle Carter … Miss Taylor
- Angie Diaz … Female Reporter
- Sally Anne Arnott … Rioter
- Lara Robinson … Lucinda / Abby
- Anna Anderson … Anchorwoman
- Tamara Donnellan … Lucinda’s mother
- Jake Bradley … Caleb’s friend
- Jayson Sutcliffe … Business Man
- Brett Robson … University Teacher / Parent
- Giovanni Bartuccio … Transit cop – Ryan
- Clement Tang … Businessman
- Bianca Cutrona … Lucy
- Clem Maloney … Rioter
- Andrew Lyons … Transit Cop
- Luke Calder … New York Artist
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