I was wondering if any of you guys have watched this new film by Luca Guadagnino called "A Bigger Splash". On top of it being a great movie, there's lots and lots of Stones references in it. Ralph Fiennes plays a producer who has supposedly worked with the Stones, his character says stories about them, Stones songs are in the soundtrack and according to IMDB, our guys were involved in it:

Before David Kajganich started the first draft of the script, he read every official and unofficial book about The Rolling Stones and watched every official and unofficial documentary about them. He needed to build a space in the factual world of 1990s rock-n-roll that Marianne Lane and Harry Hawkes could have occupied. What Rolling Stones albums, for instance, could Harry have produced. Once he decided that, he found as many first-person accounts of being in the studio during the recording of those songs as he could. Incidentally, he had a very interesting email forwarded to him during prep for the shoo, it was to the film's music supervisor and it was from Mick Jagger. At some point The Rolling Stones read the script. The filmmakers wanted their blessing since they were asking for the rights to some of their music and they gave it to them, but in this email Mick Jagger was asking how Kajganich knew the story Harry tells in the film about recording "Moon Is Up" and having Charlie Watts play a trash can instead of a drum. Kajganich had read the substance of that anecdote in one of Stanley Booth's books about The Rolling Stones. But he'd used it in the script in this sort of ball-out way and was a little concerned at first that Mick Jagger might be annoyed about it, but he couldn't have been more game. He was essentially writing to correct a detail in that scene as Kajganich had written it. Kajganich told that he was very happy to have the adjustment, because you're not going to get a better fact-checker for a story about The Rolling Stones than Mick Jagger. Kajganich also listened almost exclusively to The Rolling Stones for a year.

The Rolling Stones helped with the script. Work with the band began with the filmmakers screening Io sono l'amore (2009) for Mick Jagger and the rest of the band to introduce them to Luca Guadagnino's work. Jagger was intrigued. Ralph Fiennes was also friendly with Jagger and the duo went on a pilgrimage to a Stones concert in Rome to pitch A Bigger Splash. According to the film's producer Michael Costigan, it went even better than they could have ever hoped. Mick and Ronnie Wood, particularly, were so excited about the movie and about Ralph's character, he actually got a couple of notes back from Mick and from Ronnie so that the dialogue would be so authentic, in terms of describing the recording sessions that Harry discusses. When he puts the record on, Harry is now relaying some authentic details from the original recording sessions that the Stones provided.



Definitely worth watching, and Tilda Swinton gives a great performance as a Bowie-looking/influenced rock star.

FotiniD wrote on Aug 10^th, 2016 at 3:42pm:


I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. I'm not sure if Watts ever worked in a recording studio with Tom Waits. [Besides, probably  "Dirty Work"] Maybe in spirit, of course.