Post by Hey Man on Mar 17, 2024 21:08:13 GMT -5
Iconic Australian filmmaker Peter Weir hasn’t shot a film since 2010’s “The Way Back” and, from his own comments this week, he’s now confirmed he’s fully retired from filmmaking.
Appearing as the guest of honor at the Festival de la Cinematheque in Paris this week (via Telerama) as part of a retrospective on his works, he was asked about his near decade-and-a-half absence from cinema.
The 79-year-old director’s answer was short and succinct and finally made it official: “I am retired. Why did I stop cinema? Because, quite simply, I have no more energy.”
It follows comments in late 2022 to SMH when he teased he was done: “For film directors, like volcanoes, there are three major stages: active, dormant and extinct. I think I’ve reached the latter.” He also wished the next generation of filmmakers good luck.
The last project Weir was ever attached to was a film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ novel “Shantaram” starring Johnny Depp. That project ultimately got retooled and done as a TV series with Charlie Hunnam that released in 2022.
Weir leaves an astonishingly legacy of film which includes countless film classics – “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “Gallipoli,” “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Witness,” “The Mosquito Coast,” “The Year of Living Dangerously,” “The Last Wave,” “The Cars That Ate Paris,” “Fearless,” and “Green Card”.
Appearing as the guest of honor at the Festival de la Cinematheque in Paris this week (via Telerama) as part of a retrospective on his works, he was asked about his near decade-and-a-half absence from cinema.
The 79-year-old director’s answer was short and succinct and finally made it official: “I am retired. Why did I stop cinema? Because, quite simply, I have no more energy.”
It follows comments in late 2022 to SMH when he teased he was done: “For film directors, like volcanoes, there are three major stages: active, dormant and extinct. I think I’ve reached the latter.” He also wished the next generation of filmmakers good luck.
The last project Weir was ever attached to was a film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ novel “Shantaram” starring Johnny Depp. That project ultimately got retooled and done as a TV series with Charlie Hunnam that released in 2022.
Weir leaves an astonishingly legacy of film which includes countless film classics – “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “Gallipoli,” “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Witness,” “The Mosquito Coast,” “The Year of Living Dangerously,” “The Last Wave,” “The Cars That Ate Paris,” “Fearless,” and “Green Card”.