This summer has been an exciting one for moviegoers, including record-breaking hits like Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A new family-friendly blockbuster has arrived this weekend with Ben Gregor's The Magic Faraway Tree, which stars Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. The movie is a visual treat, and has some epic sequences, including one that was set entirely in reverse. And the filmmaker spoke to CinemaBlend about filming it, calling "Tenet with 9-year-olds." Let's break it all down.
Christoper Nolan's movie Tenet featured Time Inversion, where entire fight scenes were filmed backwards. Funny enough, a similar scene occurs in The Magic Faraway Tree, where characters enter a reverse room to cancel wishes they made at The Land of Birthdays. As you can see in the video above, I asked Gregor about how he shot that sequence. He told me:
