The whole film was in Martin’s head before we began the process.” We go in, block the scene, Martin had a good idea of how he wanted to shoot it, and we would end up doing that. “It was organic in that way although we weren’t bashing the script around. There was room to improvise when shooting scenes. Even though we may not refer to the storyboards on the day, they were pretty much what we shot for the entire film.” Some of them I would look at and go, ‘What’s that supposed to be? Is that a rabbit?’ ‘It’s a deer.’ ‘Oh, right.’ Martin and I talked through every scene.
“Martin draws storyboards for the entire movie for what you could understand of them! They were there like stick drawings. “I came straight from another film so we did about five weeks of prep and a seven-week shoot,” notes Davis. Principal photography took place from May and June of 2016. The town was very much in his head and Sylva was exactly what he was looking for.” “What was extraordinary about it was that all of our places were in the one town or within a stone’s throw. The biggest influence on the visual look was the principal setting of Sylva, North Carolina which took over a year to find as Martin McDonagh wanted everything to fit geographically, from the house that Mildred lives in overlooking the town, to the placement of the police station.
Points of reference for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri were Don’t Look Now, Paris, Texas and Americana. It doesn’t particularly fit into genre or style.” I remember saying to them, ‘The thing about Martin is I can’t pick a particular film.’ I try to explain to them that with Martin’s scripts it is difficult to do that because his work is of its own. “What happens, particularly on the independent films during the preproduction period, is the DP will be asked to come and sit down to let the financiers know what your goal is and what you’re trying to do. “Working with Martin is a joy and his scripts are always brilliant,” notes Ben Davis. After collaborating with McDonagh on Seven Psychopaths cinematographer Ben Davis BSC returns with a deep admiration for his friend and colleague. The source of all of the commotion is Mildred Hayes portrayed by Frances McDormand other cast members in the independent production distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures includes Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, and Caleb Landry Jones.
"Buckskin Stallion Blues" (Performed by Townes Van Zandt) The score was nominated for Best Original Score at the 90th Academy Awards.Īll tracks composed by Carter Burwell unless stated.
In addition to the score, it features tracks from Joan Baez, The Four Tops, Monsters of Folk and Townes Van Zandt (also sung by Amy Annelle). Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a soundtrack album of the 2017 film of the same name and features the score by composer Carter Burwell.