![]() Three years later, Edward discovers that Amos is secretly a werewolf but shows no ill-will towards his employer. Karl and Edward get jobs in the circus where the ringmaster Amos Calloway reveals to Edward one detail about the woman at the end of every month. Returning to his reminisces, Edward reunites with Karl and they visit the Calloway Circus, where Edward falls in love with a beautiful woman. In the present day, Joséphine speaks to the bed-ridden Edward and asks him to tell her the story of how he met his wife Sandra, with Will listening outside the door. However, Edward leaves Spectre, unwilling to settle down but promises Jenny he will return. There, he befriends Ashton poet Norther Winslow and the mayor’s daughter Jenny. Edward follows a path through a swamp and discovers the secret town of Spectre, the cheery locals claiming he was not yet expected. As he grows into adulthood, he finds his home too confining, and sets out into the world with a misunderstood giant, Karl, who has come to town with a traveling circus.Įdward and Karl find a fork in the road and travel down separate paths. She shows him his death but he reacts to it without fear. Edward’s life is told through flashbacks, beginning with his encounter with a witch in his hometown, Ashton. Three years later, Edward is stricken with cancer, so Will and his pregnant French wife Joséphine return to his childhood home in Alabama to spend time with his father. Will, having heard these stories all his life, believes them to be lies and falls out with his father. The set for the town of Spectre still remains and can be found in Wetumpka, Alabama, at Jackson Lake Island.Īt Will Bloom’s wedding party, his father Edward recalls the day Will was born, claiming he caught an enormous catfish using his wedding ring as bait. The film received award nominations in multiple film categories, including four Golden Globe Award nominations, seven nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, two Saturn Award nominations, and an Oscar and a Grammy Award nomination for Danny Elfman's original score. It garnered mostly positive reviews from critics and was an underwhelming box-office success, grossing $122.9 million against a $70 million budget. Big Fish premiered on December 4, 2003, at the Hammerstein Ballroom and was released in limited capacity on December 10, 2003, by Columbia Pictures followed by a wide release on January 9, 2004. Big Fish was shot on location in Alabama in a series of fairy tale vignettes evoking the tone of a Southern Gothic fantasy. The film's theme of reconciliation between a dying father and his son had special significance for Burton, as his father had died in 2000 and his mother in 2002, a month before he signed on to direct. Zanuck took over after completing Planet of the Apes (2001) and brought Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney on board. ![]() Spielberg considered Jack Nicholson for the role of Edward Bloom, but eventually dropped the project to focus on Catch Me If You Can (2002). August began adapting the novel while producers negotiated with Steven Spielberg who planned to direct after finishing Minority Report (2002). Screenwriter John August read a manuscript of the novel six months before it was published and convinced Columbia Pictures to acquire the rights. The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in the life of his father, a teller of tall tales. The film stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi, and Danny DeVito. ![]() Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy drama film directed by Tim Burton, and based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. ![]()
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