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Blindness
Interview with director, Fernando Meirelles and Alice Braga
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Pedigree: Meirelles has attracted a top cast, including Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. Estimated budget: $40 million. Predicted box office: $60 million (US gross), $110 million (worldwide).
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It's a harrowing story," says City Of God director Fernando Meirelles of Portugese author José Saramago's novel Blindness. "It's built on such a simple premise, imagining what would happen if we all lost our sight. If we lost that one sense, everything would spiral into chaos."
The story is vaguely reminiscent of John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids, although there are no giant plants stalking the globe here. Rather, it focuses on a group of individuals and their struggle to cope in a world where law and order are defunct. This group has one advantage over everyone else, however, as one of their number, played by Julianne Moore, has retained her sight.
"It's such a wonderful, terrifying story," says Moore's co-star, Alice Braga, who made her debut in City Of God and is currently appearing in her first major Hollywood movie, I Am Legend. "And I'm not sure you can do better than getting someone like Fernando to direct such a brilliant book."
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