Director Shawn Levy and writer Steven Knight on All the Light We Cannot See, the film's unusual love story, and the importance of hope in dark times.
The Big Picture From director Shawn Levy and writer Steven Knight, and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr, the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of a blind teenage French girl named Marie-Laure LeBlanc , who finds herself transmitting radio broadcasts to help the Resistance on a mission to stop the Nazis.
SHAWN LEVY: It’s exactly what you just alluded to, we were both in uncharted territory. I literally was teaching Aria how to act for the camera from scratch, and she was teaching me about the experience of living life and navigating the world without sight. Every day, we illuminated things for each other. Early on, she invited candor and wanted me to be fearlessly and ruthlessly honest in directing her, so that she could learn and become great.
Steven, how and why did this end up as four episodes? It seems like this would have been impossible to turn into a two-hour movie, but it also seems like it would have been challenging to tell as a four-hour story. Do you wish you’d had more time to tell this in, or did this just feel like the right amount?
Was there anything that you had to change or wanted to change, in adapting from book to television? Were there events or characters that you had to cut or combine or change in some way? LEVY: We took the book as our cue. The truth is that it’s a fictional story set in World War II, but it is not specifically a holocaust story. It is not a carnage of war story. It’s about a backdrop of evil and darkness that informs and frankly defines the character journey. The book puts the war in the backdrop, so our show positions them accordingly.
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