Opus is an Ambitious Debut + Interview With Writer/Director Mark Anthony Green
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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On the March 14, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Bill Bria to talk about the new movie Opus and present an interview with writer/director Mark Anthony Green.
In Our Feature Presentation: Opus Review: This Cult Horror Comedy Is Too Familiar For Its Own Good [Sundance]
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- Interview with Mark Anthony Green
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| 0:56.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, March 14th, 2024. On today's episode of the show, |
| 1:01.7 | we're going to be talking about the new movie Opus, and we'll present an interview with that film's |
| 1:05.4 | writer and director, Mark Anthony Green. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's |
| 1:11.2 | episode by Slashfilm staff writer Bill Brea. Greetings, earthlings. Greetings, Bill. Okay, so let's dive |
| 1:18.1 | right into this movie. Before we get into some spoilery aspects, I just wanted to know, actually, |
| 1:23.7 | I'll lead in this way. So did the music in this film work for you? |
| 1:28.2 | Because John Malkovich plays a pop star who has disappeared for about 30 years, and he makes a grand return. |
| 1:36.0 | And the whole premise of the movie is he invites a select few group of people to a sort of isolated compound for a listening party for this new album that he's going to be dropping on the world. |
| 1:49.4 | So I kind of feel like this movie doesn't work unless you really buy that that music actually sounds like real pop music that people in our world would listen to and love. |
| 2:02.4 | So did the music for this movie work for you? |
| 2:05.2 | Absolutely, 100%. |
| 2:06.7 | In fact, I would say that the music in this movie is the number one best thing about it. |
| 2:12.9 | And it stands to reason that it would be because these songs are co-written by the likes of Nile Rogers, the co-founder of Sheik and The Dream, who works on all of Beyonce's albums. |
| 2:26.2 | So, yeah, the film and director, writer Mark Anthony Green went out and used to, I assume, his contacts. |
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