Life After Beth

Life After Beth (2014)

Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...

Data lansării
2014-08-15
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (750)
Durată
1 h 29 min
Genuri
Romantic, Comedie, Horror
Regizor
Jeff Baena

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Încasări: 254,9 K USD
  • Buget: 2,4 mil. USD
  • A încasat de 0,1× bugetul
  • Filmat în: Los Angeles

Life After Beth is a 2014 American zombie comedy film written and directed by Jeff Baena. The film stars Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, and John C. Reilly. A cameo by Garry Marshall was one of his final film appearances.

Production

Jeff Baena wrote the screenplay for Life After Beth – originally titled Winged Life after a line in a William Blake poem – in two weeks in 2003 as production was wrapping on I Heart Huckabees, his first major film credit. His initial ideas were of a girlfriend suddenly dying, the boyfriend seeing her through a window one day, and the couple trying to make their relationship work.

Not specifically interested in making a zombie film, Baena was thematically influenced by Blake's poem "Eternity" and inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, which also gave the Orpheus-substitute character Zach his last name of Orfman.

In 2004, the film was in development at Fox Searchlight Pictures with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Zach. When this production fell through, Baena put the project down until the agent of comic actress Aubrey Plaza was looking for a role for Plaza to break away from being typecast as characters similar to her role as April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation.

Baena attached producer friend Michael Zakin, at which point the project gained momentum. He said Life After Beth moved into production very quickly; Baena pivoted to focus on the film when pre-production for Joshy, which he had intended to be his directorial debut, had to be postponed by collaborator Adam Pally for personal reasons.

He said that despite some initial "feelings of disappointment and unresolved crap" when the film was picked back up, he discarded those thoughts and got on with making it. He made some technical rewrites, including removing a layer of the film that reflected on the early presidency of George W.

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