{"id":124125,"date":"2025-09-09T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124125\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:50:11","slug":"nuremberg-writer-director-james-vanderbilt-rami-malek-and-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124125\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nuremberg’ Writer-Director James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek And Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith an unusually-long-for-Toronto <\/a>standing ovation at its premiere, Sony Pictures Classics film Nuremberg has made a big impression at TIFF. Director James Vanderbilt and his cast came by the Deadline TIFF studio to discuss their work on the film. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn Vanderbilt\u2019s adaptation of Jack El-Hai\u2019s book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Rami Malek stars as real-life army psychiatrist, U.S. Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley. Charged with evaluating Nazi second-in-command Hermann G\u00f6ring (Russell Crowe) ahead of the Nuremberg trials, Kelley grapples with the concept of determining inherent evil, while trying to resist G\u00f6ring\u2019s narcissistic manipulations. <\/p>\n

\n\tVanderbilt explained that one of the key factors of creating the claustrophobia of Kelley and G\u00f6ring\u2019s meetings was the way they shot the cell scenes. \u201cIt was a set, but we built everything to scale,\u201d he said. \u201cDariusz Wolski, the cinematographer, and I made a deal with each other that even though we could pull the walls, we weren\u2019t going to do it. So it meant it\u2019s not going to be as pretty a shot, and the camera operator is going to be up here, but you\u2019ll feel the claustrophobia of it. We wanted to make sure that we did it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMalek said of the role: \u201cI prepared by reading this delicious script that Jamie wrote. Simply put it was one of those things that you fly through immediately. Those are the things I\u2019ve responded to in my career, and I know that\u2019s a no-brainer. And then we got on the phone. I read Jack\u2019s book, and when there\u2019s something original to revert back to, there\u2019s a wealth of knowledge there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMalek also pointed out that this year is the 80th anniversary of the trials and the 50th year of TIFF too. \u201cI think having those things co-align is quite poignant at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Shannon plays U.S. Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson, who must put together the international tribunal. \u201cI have no business playing a Supreme Court justice,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you know, you find yourself in these situations as an actor. The thing about Jackson that Jamie reminded me of the other day, is he didn\u2019t even go to law school. So he was an autodidact. He taught himself everything he knew. He was kind of a fearless individual and very intelligent individual. I think people that accomplish things like Jackson accomplished, they just take the word \u2018impossible\u2019 out of their vocabulary. There\u2019s nothing that\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Jackson is British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe \u2014 a role taken on by Richard E. Grant. He said of his preparation process: \u201cThe combination of the script and the gift of YouTube is that you have the entire trial on YouTube so you can see the character that you\u2019re playing, the real person in the real set, which was recreated by Eve Stewart, the production designer, to within a millimeter of what the original was, and that verisimilitude was extraordinary in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t Also on the panel at Deadline\u2019s TIFF studio was John Slattery, who plays Burton C. Andrus, a U.S. Colonel and commandant of the Nuremberg prison. \u201cWith the question of the inherent evil,\u201d Slattery said, \u201ceverybody had very strong opinions by the end of World War II about this regime, but it was their job to put those feelings aside and handle the assignment given. And so that\u2019s what the Colonel did. He had a very decorated, illustrious military career, and then was assigned this very difficult task at the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLeo Woodall also stars as Howie Triest, a german-speaking Sergeant serving as a translator for Kelley.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo watch the full conversation, click on the video above.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deadline Studio at TIFF is hosted at\u00a0Bisha Hotel<\/a>\u00a0and sponsored by\u00a0Cast & Crew<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Final Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNUREMBERG<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:\u00a0Gala Presentations<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector:\u00a0James Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenwriter: James Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

\n\tLogline:\u00a0Featuring powerhouse performances from Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, this gripping historical drama from writer-director James Vanderbilt (TIFF \u201915\u2019s\u00a0Truth) chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice in the wake of World War II.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanelists:\u00a0James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant and John Slattery.<\/p>\n

Distributor:\u00a0Sony Pictures Classics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With an unusually-long-for-Toronto standing ovation at its premiere, Sony Pictures Classics film Nuremberg has made a big impression…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,20487,58952,20484,20485,2839,58228,20483,47091,20482,19495,14160,5840,44277,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-james-vanderbilt","tag-john-slattery","tag-leo-woodall","tag-michael-shannon","tag-movies","tag-nuremberg","tag-rami-malek","tag-richard-e-grant","tag-russell-crowe","tag-sony-pictures-classics","tag-tiff","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}