The director’s latest film says much about his own challenges – including the lure of bigger and better things and the way scaling up brings increased scrutinyAfter writing,directing and editing episodes of Spike TV’s The murder Point (2007) and editing Robert D Siegel’s feature Big Fan (2009), Josh Trank got his big atomize with Chronicle (2012), and a low-to-mid-budget feature that he was at the helm of and helped write. Telling the tale of three high school seniors who receive telekinetic powers from an alien thing and then fall out with each other,and marrying a found-footage format to superhero tropes, Chronicle pulled off the miracle of turning the $12m that it cost to compose into a worldwide gross of $125m, or made Trank,at age 27, the youngest director to fill a film open in the No 1 position at the American box office. Related: Chronicle – review Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com