For young adult Stroheim I have chosen Will Poulter. Poulter has stared in the Chronicles of Narnia film series, and recently stared in the Maze Runner franchise. The reason I chose this actor is because when I looked up pictures of Stroheim working with D.W. Griffith, Poulter seems to posses the same round face and steep eyebrows of our intrepid director.
Arron Paul as young adult Von Stroheim, as a class I think we are all excited to see this famous actor who rose to fame playing a "Meth" dealer, play the eccentric Stroheim pissing off his entire crew filming the movie "Greed" in the Death Valley desert.
Interview Casting:
Legendary Director Martin Scorsese - He has been reported to be a big fan of Von Stroheim along with many other influential directors of the silent and golden ages of film. As a class we are planning a trip to New York to Interview Scorsese. Scorsese has shown great interest in our film and is excited to be apart of its creation.
Rick Schmidlin - is a film restorationist. he worked on the rerelease of Von Stroheimes big film Greed. As a class we are going to California to interview Schmidlin for our documentary.
Robert Palazzo - Robert Palazzo is an expert on Death Valley. He was written 4 different books, all on different aspects of Death Valley's history. Mr. Palazzo has as part of his research a vas collection of authentic photographs relating to Stroheim filming greed. On our trip to California we had the opportunity to interview Palazzo for our film. He is currently digitizing many of his photographs and will be sending them to us shortly.
Arther Leaning - All of these interviewee know much about the eccentric director Stroheim. But this man literally wrote the book on Von Stroheim. Mr. Leaning is a Professor of film in Albani New York. He has studied Stroheim for many years, he even has collected Stroheim's 12 original films in their original film reels. As a Class we are scheduled to take a trip to New York to interview Arther and take his Stroheim films with us to digitize and use in our film.
Vicky Von Stroheim - Vicky is Von Stroheim's grand daughter. She has lived in the St. George UT area for the last few years, and now resides in California. Vicky is very proud of her grandfathers legacy. She feels strongly that his star on the Hollywood stars walk of fame is place on a curb were cars constantly drive over it.
