A Monster Calls
Stories are wild creatures.
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Country
Production
Budget
$43 000 000
Box office
$47 309 313
Director
Actors
Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Ben Moor, James Melville, Oliver Steer, Dominic Boyle, Jennifer Lim, Max Gabbay
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Belén Atienza, Jonathan King, Patrick Wachsberger, Álvaro Augustin, Enrique López Lavigne, Ghislain Barrois, Jeff Skoll, Bill Pohlad, Sandra Hermida, Patrick Ness
Camera operator
Óscar Faura
Composer
Fernando Velázquez
Artist
Audition
Shaheen Baig
Short description
12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
What's left behind the scenes
- Lewis MacDougall turned 12 years old at the start of filming, just like his character.
- In preparation for the role of Lizzie, Felicity Jones visited several oncologists and spoke with women undergoing chemotherapy.
- Sigourney Weaver's mother was a British actress, so portraying a British accent was not difficult for her.
- Lewis MacDougall's mother died in 2013, shortly before the start of his filming in "A Monster Calls".
- The Monster's height was approximately 12 meters.
- The Monster's head, shoulders, legs, and branches were made of foam.
- The screenplay for "A Monster Calls" was included in the so-called "Black List" of 2013 – a list of the most promising, but unrealized screenplays.
- Juan Antonio Bayona did not allow Lewis McDougall to read the final page of the script in order to elicit the most natural reaction in the final scene.
- The film features the "Blackpool Pleasure Beach" amusement park in Lancashire, one of the largest entertainment parks in Europe.
- School scenes were filmed at a school in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
- The scene where Connor stands at the gates and looks at the mountain was filmed near the village of Rivington, close to the town of Horwich in Lancashire. The mountain's appearance was slightly altered using computer technology, as required by the film's plot.
- According to the book's author, Patrick Ness, the Monster references an English legend called "The Green Man".
- Tom Holland, who had previously worked with Juan Antonio Bayona on the disaster film "The Impossible" (2012), was present on set in case it was necessary to substitute for the monster. The actor receives special thanks in the end credits.
- The film is based on Patrick Ness’s novel “A Monster Calls” (2011).
- Liam Neeson portrays Connor's grandfather in an old photograph, which shows the boy's mother being carried in her father’s arms as a child.
- The Monster's neck was equipped with a hydraulic structure, allowing it to move its head. And at the back, an operator controlled the structure using a kind of steering wheel.
- When animating the Monster, the features and movements of actor Liam Neeson, who voiced the character in the film, were used as a basis.
- Director Juan Antonio Bayona and cinematographer Óscar Faura have already filmed three films together – “The Orphanage,” “The Impossible,” and “A Monster Calls.”
- This is the first film in which Sigourney Weaver has played a grandmother.
- In order to preserve national heritage sites, Eugenio Caballero created exact replicas of the church and cemetery at a studio in Spain.
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