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Marc Forster, who directed \u201cA Man Called Otto,\u201d built his American version of the Swedish story with different creative elements from three Hanks family members, including Tom Hanks starring as the central character and his son Truman portraying the younger version of Otto.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately when you\u2019re dealing with flashbacks, the ins and outs [need to] feel very seamless and feel like you\u2019re still in present-day with Otto, with Tom Hanks. When you go into the flashback with Truman and Sonya (Rachel Keller), it [needs to feel] like you\u2019re not being taken out of the movie,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I always wanted to connect Tom into those scenes and feel like you\u2019re almost still in present day, but you\u2019re with him on this journey [where]he\u2019s going into his memories, but then you emotionally don\u2019t detach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA Man Called Otto\u201d the adaptation of the best-selling book \u201cA Man Called Ove\u201d by Frederik Backman, tells the story of Otto, a grumpy older man who doesn\u2019t see a reason to live following the loss of his wife Sonya. He tries to take his own life multiple times in the film, but his efforts get interrupted, and his new neighbors warm their way into his legitimately oversized heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrederik Backman wrote the book and it was a great foundation. Hannes Holm the Swedish director, who did the Swedish movie (\u201cEn Man Som Heter Ove\u201d) also laid a great foundation,\u201d Forster said of his predecessors. \u201cWe are very close to the book and also even to the Swedish movie. Certain things are slightly different, but overall I think we\u2019re all telling the same story with same character in the same spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forster asked Rita Wilson, Hanks\u2019 longtime partner and fellow producer on the film, to write a song for the story, resulting in \u201cTil You\u2019re Home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI mentioned to Rita, \u2018I would love for you to write a song\u2019 because I was listening to her songs. And then she said, \u2018You really mean It? Seriously? and I said, \u2018Yes, please.\u2019 And I was thinking, \u2018Oh maybe I just made a mistake. I hope that song is gonna be good,’\u201d he recalled. \u201cThen she wrote a song and one morning I woke up and she texted me the song. I was listening to it, and it was so beautiful and touching that it was like, \u2018Yes, this encapsulates really what the movie is about.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe use the song multiple times in the movie, where her co-writer is singing it and then at the end, she sings it in a duet. It\u2019s really was sort of spirited where our emotional journey was going at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cat that Otto desperately tries to shake from following him before it sneaks into his heart and home also played an important role on set. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been taken out of movies when the animals or the cats are too CGI. So I said we really have to get the cat \u2014 the cat\u2019s name is Sm\u00e9agol \u2014 that Sm\u00e9agol really performs, and sometimes Sm\u00e9agol\u2019s on set and performs perfectly well and then sometimes Sm\u00e9agol just walks off and is gone to the trailer or wherever.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe did ask the producers for a green screen day with the cat, so I would say what you see on screen is 90% the real cat and probably 10% a CG cat but most of the time we actually shot the cat either on green screen or location and then and then comp the cat into the movie, depending on Sm\u00e9agol\u2019s mood \u2014trickier than any movie star.\u201d<\/p>\n
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