{"id":2018,"date":"2022-01-07T03:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/01\/07\/guillermo-del-toros-friendships-with-spielberg-and-george-miller-got-him-through-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T03:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:01:01","slug":"guillermo-del-toros-friendships-with-spielberg-and-george-miller-got-him-through-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/01\/07\/guillermo-del-toros-friendships-with-spielberg-and-george-miller-got-him-through-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s Friendships with Spielberg and George Miller Got Him Through the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/del-toro-friendships\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/nightmare-alley-and-other-stories-from-guillermo-del-toro.png?itok=nxiqeN6v\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friendships can sustain us, even in the most trying times. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe pandemic was a brutal time for everyone. It was so hard to find those friendships that mattered and even harder to sustain the ones you had with little to no contact.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs filmmakers, we know the circle of friendships we have can be the most crucial part of our success. They&#8217;re the people we go to for feedback, confidence, and overall creative support. Famous filmmakers are just like us, with bigger budgets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Guillermo del Toro set out to make <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em>, there was no pandemic. He and his now-wife, Kim Morgan (also an amazing film critic), worked on the screenplay after reading the novel. They incorporated things from other sideshow movies like <em>Freaks<\/em> and even took from the original <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> film from 1947.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe movie began shooting and all was going well. Then the pandemic hit. Hard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> had half the movie shot when it happened. And del Toro was forced to head home. While he was happy to have his wife, he missed his friends.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/del-toro-friendships\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Author: Jason Hellerman<br \/>\nThis article comes from <i>No Film School<\/i> and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/del-toro-friendships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>read on the original site.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendships can sustain us, even in the most trying times. The pandemic was a brutal time for everyone. 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