Tony Tost believes that Americana has been “wolfed up by the zeitgeist”.
The 50-year-old filmmaker’s image – which stars Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser and Halsey – has tanked on the field workplace however he believes that it is going to be appreciated within the long-term.
Tost posted on social media platform X: “One of many nice issues about films is that they outlive the zeitgeist into which they had been launched.
“As somebody whose first movie sorta acquired wolfed up by the zeitgeist, I will be curious to see the way it’ll arise after this second is over. Hopefully pretty nicely!”
Tost additionally shared a screenshot of his Letterboxd put up when Americana was in post-production in 2022 as he defined how he hoped that audiences would uncover the film.
The Damnation creator added: “Even again then, I knew I used to be making a ‘hidden gem’ sort film (versus a blockbuster, or auteur masterpiece).”
Tost had hoped to comply with an identical profession path to legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas by creating smaller gems to go along with massive blockbusters however admits that he might need to rethink his method after the underwhelming response to his directorial debut.
He wrote: “One image in – I do not know if a minor gem profession is possible lately.
“I believe I’ve acquired to swing both greater or smaller. Excited for individuals to search out Americana within the days/weeks/months/years to return. But additionally attempting to internalise the various classes discovered from swing #1.”
The film was launched simply weeks after Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle denims advert generated a social media storm however her co-star Hauser stated that Americana is his favorite film from his profession up to now.
The 38-year-old actor advised The Hollywood Reporter: “I do not know when time is to drop a film like this.
“I simply know – irrespective of whether or not it blows up, and it is the following Every thing In every single place All at As soon as, or if it comes and goes and makes $800K in theatres – it is nonetheless going to be one in every of these films that can have long-term success.
“I do know individuals are going to come across it, and it will change into some 13-year-old’s favorite film in three years, and it will be like what Reservoir Canine was for me at their age.”
Americana truly premiered on the SXSW pageant again in 2023 and Hauser is delighted that it has lastly arrived on the massive display screen.
The Black Hen star stated: “Americana is legitimately my favorite film I’ve ever made, which you’ll print. I am not nervous about any social blowback there.
“I simply assume it is wildly authentic, the script was so enticing. It was all in regards to the writing, and Sydney Sweeney was simply on the come up the place everybody was beginning to discover out who she was due to The White Lotus and Euphoria.
“After we wrapped, we had been advised it will go to a pageant. A yr later, we had it at SXSW in Austin, and we acquired nice evaluations, so we had been like, ‘Oh, we’re sitting fairly.’ Then we had been simply sitting. There was no fairly. We had been questioning what the hell occurred.”
