Release the white smoke! Academic voters have assigned ”Conclave“Oscar too Best custom script. Written by Peter StraughanAdaptation of a Robert Harris novel 2016 with the same name, the papal election drama has now sweated almost every major screening to to which it was eligible, including Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA AWARDS and The The The BAF USC Scriptter Awards.
First premiere 2024 Telluride Film FestivalThe Edward Berger film with Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini Got a reputation for being one of the most crowd -suffering watches in 2024.
The film adaptation of “Conclave” remains particularly very faithful to the book, even sticks to its unpredictable twist end. Oscar winner Straughan told IndieWire in November 2024 That he took that method because “the book, it is very accurate and controlled. It worked within a kind of emotional bandwidth. It worked well as a thriller plot. “He added,” sometimes I have worked with books where you really restructure them tremendously. This was one of those who ended up being quite faithful. So it felt more like there was a certain keyhole surgery in different places rather than ripping out the attachment. “
As someone who grew up Catholic, the screenwriter was particularly interested in how the book Duva deep into “the world’s largest patriarchy. It is told from within a believing pov, “he said, referring to the character of the enemy Cardinal Lawrence. “The book is silently subversive by Lawrence ending up deconstructing the pieces completely. It is to pieces when done. If Lawrence, at the beginning of the film, had seen where it would end up, he would have been frightened. I thought it was an interesting idea, that the Lord works in mysterious ways, and you may not like the direction he takes in things. “
Straughan could also already see the parallels between the story “Conclave” told, and the global political landscape as a decisive choice in places that the US and Germany approached. “There is a moment where Lawrence gives his home. I remember reading it in the book and reached it in the book where he says: “God, give us a pope that will doubt.” And I really liked it, and I found it quite electrifying because it was a few years ago, but things were already terrible polarized in the world, ”he said. “And even more now, the idea that the silent revolutionary attitude is to embrace doubts rather than security. It felt like a character I wanted to come behind. ”
“Conclave” got Straughan his first Oscar, although the British screenwriter had been a previously best adapted script Oscar -nominated for the 2011 filming of John Le Carré’s “Tinker tailor -made soldier Spy.”
