![]() ![]() “We put our heads together in this little bubble and didn’t really think about the outside world,” Zhao said. (Her fictional character’s name, Fern, may as well be McDormand’s road name.) But the 38-year-old Zhao, who wrote the screenplay, made the story her own: She has crafted a mesmerizing immersion into the American West, populating the canvas with its real inhabitants and capturing the ecosystem so well that McDormand’s own star power melts into her surroundings. McDormand has long admired the liberation of the nomadic life, and optioned the book with producing partner Peter Spears. How to Make a Modern Period Piece for $5 Million: Behind the Scenes of ‘BlackBerry’Ī sensitive and nuanced portrait of a transient life, “Nomadland” pulls from Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” and the project originated with its star. ![]()
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