1917 - Krysty Wilson Cairns (Screenwriter) Interview

Please follow me on Social Media Bonnie Laufer Krebs - Click here to subscribe    / moviegalz.  . Follow me on Twitter:   / movi_boni   Follow me on Instagram:   / boneb   Follow me on Facebook:   / bonscelebint.  . An online source for movies and interviews Visit http://www.smartentertainmentgroup.com 1917 is getting a ton of attention and for very good reason. It's an 2019 epic war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The film stars George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, with Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The film is based in part on an account told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes, and it chronicles the story of two young British soldiers at the height of WWI during Spring 1917 who have been given a mission to deliver a message which will warn of an ambush during one of the skirmishes soon after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich. 1917 hits select theatres on December 25th and opens wider on January 10th Bonnie Laufer @movi_boni spoke with screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns about her experience writing the film and her experience working on it.