Sunday December 05, 2021

‘The Power Of The Dog’ Producer And Cinematographer On “The Charm Of Jane Campion”

Producer Tanya Seghatchian and cinematographer Ari Wegner took to the stage Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event to discuss how they put together Netflix’ The Power of the Dog.

“It wasn’t immediately that we knew we were going to try to make it into a film,” Seghatchian said, relating that writer-director Jane Campion “found that it started to haunt her, and then she looked into whether or not the rights were available.” Although the rights were about to be sold to someone else, “After a brief meeting together, [book author Thomas Savage said] ‘You can have it if you want.’ [ Original Story ]