Network | movie | 2018 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

A stage production with the similar plot of the 1976 film of the same name but uses stage devices and audio visual techn | dG1fRVdjaGcyTnpXNkU

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00:00Even when I was a kid and watching Walter Cronkite deliver the news, I didn't realize

00:07that they had to decide what news to tell us.

00:12There is an agenda on the table and it's not even subtle anymore, it's very clear.

00:19Network just feels so unbelievably topical and kind of creepily foreshadowed a lot of

00:28what we're dealing with right now, even back in the 70s.

00:31Although Paddy was writing about network television in the 70s, he'd written a play about the

00:39internet age.

00:40It's a very simple story, but it's a very, very complicated moral, ethical, political

00:48debate that the play is involved with.

00:51The Sidney Lumet movie is beloved and is undeniably a classic.

00:57This is a completely different deal.

01:00Ivo van Gogh's approach to this feels so alive, so vibrant.

01:06He creates a world that's at once faithful to the original and yet is a completely its

01:10own absolutely contemporary experience.

01:13I wanted to create a feeling of community, of a real democracy in the theater.

01:19So I have also Brian interact with audience sometimes.

01:23We have even audiences on stage, there is a real restaurant on stage.

01:27You can book special tickets for that.

01:30What is thrilling is to see an actor of Brian's experience and skill at the top of their game.

01:39All these beats, all these elements resonate so strongly with today's audience that it's

01:47going to have a great impact here in New York.

01:51Two hours of bat out of hell entertainment and social commentary and human drama.

01:59It's just very incredibly alive.