News Summary

• "The Dog Stars" is a movie that’s romantic but not sentimental, dark but hopeful, and frightening but funny.
• Ridley Scott knew that calibrating the film ‘s varied tones would be key to its success.
• The editors struggled with the opening until they were given some needle drops to try out, one of which — “Like Real People Do,” by the Irish musician Hozier — made the scene fall into place.
• “We had electric planes.
• We had the real, and we figured out what we could do with practical planes.”