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MAMMA MIA 2 SHOOT STORY
IMAGE The ‘When I kissed the teacher‘ song sequence.
WE OCCASIONALLY USED LARGE SILKS TO SOFTEN THE HARSH CROATIAN SUN
hank you for the music’ is what everyone is saying about Mamma Mia!, especially the producers. The stage musical
has banked $1 billion in receipts and it was the first movie to make over $600 million at the box office. The new
movie, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is then a sure-fire hit and it’s perfect for the summer cinema doldrums.
The first movie had a heightened look to go along with the slightly kitsch song and dance sequences, so what could DOP Robert Yeoman add to it? Robert has shot movies as different as Dogma and The Grand Budapest Hotel. We asked him what it takes to make a sequel of such a popular hit movie? Is it limiting, do you pursue making a similar movie or are you encouraged to bring your own aesthetic and vision to the production? “Certainly we were all fans of the first Mamma Mia! movie. Our goal was to capture the joy and spirit of the first film and, hopefully, expand on it to find a fresh approach to the story. There were obvious visual motifs – the sea, the hotel, etc – but we were free to embellish and give a new interpretation to this backdrop.” But would the production be tempted to follow the example set by the Oscar-winning screen version of Les Misérables, for instance, and record live vocals to get nearer the audience? The quick answer from Robert was, “I don’t remember any live vocals for the songs, everything was prerecorded and the actors had to lip sync.”
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