The long take has a, ahem, long history in cinema. Some of the most celebrated long takes — a continuous shot that goes uninterrupted and without edits — can be seen in films like Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, and Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, to name just a few. But the ultimate version of the long take comes when a filmmaker chooses to tell their entire movie in one unbroken shot. And that’s exactly what director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Road to Perdition) and cinematographer Roger Deakins (Skyfall, The Shawshank Redemption) are working on for their upcoming World War I drama 1917.
The Oscar-winning filmmakers attended a panel at New York Comic Con last week to discuss their approach to 1917, which takes place over the course of about two hours in real time as two British soldiers (George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) must travel across a dangerous landscape to help save some 1600 of their fellow soldiers.
Source: IGN.com Why (and How) 1917 Was Made With Just One Shot