{"id":2116030,"date":"2025-10-26T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2116030"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:55:18","slug":"gus-van-sant-on-his-comeback-film-dead-mans-wire-the-unintentional-movies-hes-made-and-why-he-still-thinks-about-river-phoenix-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gus-van-sant-on-his-comeback-film-dead-mans-wire-the-unintentional-movies-hes-made-and-why-he-still-thinks-about-river-phoenix-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Van Sant on His Comeback Film \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire\u2019, the Unintentional Movies He\u2019s Made and Why He Still Thinks About River Phoenix All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gus Van Sant<\/a> is still moving.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of the films I\u2019ve made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things,\u201d Van Sant says with his familiar mix of understatement and curiosity. \u201cThat\u2019s a genre, I guess. I\u2019ve always been drawn to what makes people do what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>,\u201d Van Sant\u2019s latest film, which premiered at AFI Film Festival on Saturday, that fascination becomes electrified \u2014 literally. The historical true-crime drama, based on the real-life 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage case, unfolds like a pressure cooker between desperation and spectacle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I read the script,\u201d he recalls, \u201cthere were links embedded in it \u2014 you could click them and hear the real 911 calls. Tony talked so fast, like Scorsese<\/a> on a cocaine bender, cracking jokes and losing his temper. I thought, \u2018This is an amazing character.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Sant\u2019s words carry a quiet thrill,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gus Van Sant is still moving. \u201cI think a lot of the films I\u2019ve made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things,\u201d Van Sant says with his familiar mix of understatement and curiosity. \u201cThat\u2019s a genre, I guess. I\u2019ve always been drawn to what makes people do what they do.\u201d In \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2116030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gus-Van-Sant-on-His-Comeback-Film-\u2018Dead-Mans-Wire.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116032,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116030\/revisions\/2116032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}