It plays well on a big screen, but if it just goes to television, I’d be more than happy. Whoever wants it theatrically is welcome to it. We show it first in Venice, which is a good place to start, but we have to make the best distribution deal in the United States. This is the kind of film you just hope for the widest possible audience over a period of time. STONE: This is not a film you make for profit, unfortunately. My sense is they don’t wanna make a big deal of nuclear right now before the midterm elections because they want to keep their party together and not highlight the issues that divide the Bernie Sanders wing of the party from the Biden wing.ĭEADLINE: How are you thinking about distribution for Nuclear ? Do you want it to be theatrical? However, there is some division within the Biden administration. GOLDSTEIN: The extraordinary thing about nuclear power is that it has support from both parties. I would love to see the United States government put the same amount of money into nuclear as they put into renewables. I’ve spent two years on this, which I don’t like to do. STONE: Well, the worst thing that can happen is we do nothing. There’s a huge ‘what if’ audience out there.ĭEADLINE: Are you nervous about how the film will be received? To not have any errors in it because people would jump down our throats if there were any mistakes. I think the film is clear for a large audience, but because it’s so controversial, it was really important to get the story right. I mean, nitpicking, it’s the kind of stuff that makes you go crazy, like a graduate student in some college. I’d send them a cut, and you can’t believe the notes. I’ve never had to make so many changes because I couldn’t get it right. This has been the most difficult thing I’ve worked on. STONE: From my point of view, it’s been a pain in the ass. Nothing compares to it.ĭEADLINE: How was production on the doc? How long have you been working on it? There’s nothing worse than climate change. What I saw in recent pictures of the rivers in Germany and France and it’s the worst drought in 500 years. It’s obviously clear that something is going on. I wanted to do this because I’ve been bothered by climate change ever since I saw the Al Gore film in 2006. OLIVER STONE: This is a highly technical subject that’s not my forte. I asked him about making it into a film, and that’s where it all started. Oliver saw that op-ed, and then he read my book. And out of that, we wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. I then teamed up with a Swedish nuclear engineer called Staffan Qvist and wrote a book that came out three years ago about how France and Sweden quickly decarbonized their grids by using nuclear. GOLDSTEIN: I’m an international relations professor, and I got into climate change about eight years ago and quickly realized nuclear power was the key.
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