Additional scenes not found in the book involving politicians and generals negotiating the ceasefire were added to the new film
As a world triathlon champion, Leslie Patterson he knows more than anyone what endurance means. “The dedication that comes from playing sport at this level, the obsession you need. You don’t get as good as I did at sport and you stay for so long without really loving the process,” Patterson told the BBC.
With the same determination, she focuses on her other passion, screenwriting. In 2003, Leslie Patterson and her husband moved to California, and she began to wonder if she could adapt a book she remembered reading for the first time at school in Stirling, Scotland, into a film.
All Quiet on the Western Front first appeared in newspaper in 1928. Author Erich Maria Remarque channeled all the despair and frustration of his own experience as a German soldier in the trenches of World War I. War, reports the BBC. It was made into a Hollywood film in 1930 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
“I reread it with my then-partner, writer/producer Ian Stockel, and we said, ‘Why hasn’t it been remade? Especially with the use of the technology we have now,” he stressed.
Ian Stockel and Leslie Patterson approached the Remarque Foundation to acquire the rights to the book. But that was not the only obstacle.
“Everything in the film industry is about timing and 16 years ago, World War I was not in the spirit of the times. It was not a popular war to cover on film and certainly not on the German side,” he explained.
Their original script was in English, as they felt it was the only way to finance a war film. Gradually, however, the cinematic landscape changed.
“Streaming platforms have appeared. Films like the Korean Oscar-winning Parasite helped. The movie “1917” was released, he said.
After meeting director Edward Berger, they presented the film in 2020 as a German-language project and were delighted when Netflix picked it up. The film was shot in the Czech Republic in 2021 with Daniel Bruhl and Felix Kammerer in the cast.
The new film has added additional scenes not found in the book involving politicians and generals negotiating the ceasefire. The result is a very different war film, one about loss and shame rather than glory and pride.
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