We all only have one wild and precious life to live, and while James A. Garfield couldn’t spend any of his watching a Netflix miniseries, director Matt Ross wants any story we do spend two or four or 10 hours on to be worth it. Ross immediately knew he’d found such a story on reading Mike Makowsky’s script for “Death by Lightning,” which follows both Garfield (Michael Shannon) and his eventual assassin Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen) from the former’s surprise nomination for President at the 1880 Republican National Convention through the latter’s hanging for murder. He wanted to take on the challenge of making the visual storytelling feel as immediate, surprising, and modern as Makowsky’s script read.
Much of that work, Ross told IndieWire, has nothing to do with the cinematic apparatus itself. “I want to be taken away and not the whole time think,…
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