"David, Scott and I know each other professionally, creatively and as friends so the process of deciding what a film should look like or how we should construct the mise-en-scène isn't something that we need to engage in at the same level as I might do with another director. It also became part of the crewing process because it suddenly meant that people were available to do films which they wouldn't have likely had done beforehand. The pandemic informed part of the filmmaking process because the chances of getting any other film going during that period was slim. "The script was written relatively rapidly based on a previous idea that was personal to them. "David and Scott were convinced if the budget was kept really low, which was around $2 million, they could make a film. "Once the pandemic hit everybody put everything to one side," states cinematographer Giles Nuttgens BSC who collaborated for the fourth time with McGehee and Siegel. Production on Montana Story was initially sidelined by COVID-19. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop. From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel ( W hat Maisie Knew, The Deep End) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it.
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