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<div class="tl4-overline">A Production Diary · Calendar Year MMXXV</div>
<h2 class="tl4-title">The Last <strong>Lighthouse</strong></h2>
<div class="tl4-credits">Dir. Helena Vance · Prod. Auteur Pictures · 35mm</div>
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<div class="tl4-n">I</div>
<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Dev</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Development</strong>
The script arrives in seventeen drafts, each <em>quieter</em> than the last.
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<div class="tl4-slate">FEB 2024 — SEP 2024 · 7 months</div>
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<p>Vance options the Carrigan novella in February. By May, the first treatment removes nearly all dialogue from Act II. Greenlit at $4.2M.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"I want it to feel like the audience is also a guest at the lighthouse, unsure if they should be there." — H.V., production notes</div>
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<div class="tl4-n">II</div>
<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Pre</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Pre-production</strong>
A coastline is chosen for its <em>refusal to behave</em>.
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<div class="tl4-slate">OCT 2024 — JAN 2025 · 4 months</div>
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<p>Location scouting along the Orkney archipelago. Eilean Mòr cleared with Trust for Scotland after three rejections. Cast: McTavish, Okwukwe, Andersson.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"The lighthouse keeps its own counsel. We adjust to it." — Production designer Imani Royle</div>
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<div class="tl4-n">III</div>
<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Shoot</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Principal Photography</strong>
Forty-two days, nineteen of which are <em>unusable for weather</em>.
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<div class="tl4-slate">FEB 2025 — APR 2025 · 60 days scheduled</div>
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<p>Generator failure on day 8 destroys eight reels of magic-hour exterior. Reshot under impossibly similar light on day 31 — a small miracle credited to gaffer J. Sallows.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"Day 31 was a gift. We do not deserve day 31." — H.V., daily journal</div>
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<div class="tl4-n">IV</div>
<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Post</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Post-production</strong>
Six months of <em>cutting silence</em>.
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<div class="tl4-slate">MAY 2025 — OCT 2025 · 6 months</div>
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<p>First assembly runs 187 minutes. Final cut at 104. Sound designer L. Mbeki records 38 distinct varieties of wind on a custom rig.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"You don't edit toward a runtime. You edit toward a heartbeat." — Editor Sofia Larsen</div>
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<div class="tl4-n">V</div>
<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Score</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Scoring</strong>
A composer who promises <em>almost no notes</em>.
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<div class="tl4-slate">AUG 2025 — NOV 2025 · 4 months overlap</div>
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<p>Hildur Stefánsdóttir records with 14 strings and a single bass clarinet. Final score is 31 minutes against a 104-minute film. The silence is the score's instrument too.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"Most films use music to fill. We use it to make the silence audible." — H.S.</div>
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<div class="tl4-num-lbl">Out</div>
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<strong class="tl4-phase">Phase · Release</strong>
A premiere in <em>October light</em>.
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<div class="tl4-slate">11 OCT 2025 · London Film Festival</div>
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<p>World premiere at the BFI Southbank. Standing ovation: 9 minutes. Picked up by A24 for North American distribution within the week.</p>
<div class="tl4-director">"For two hours, the audience was a fourth keeper at the lighthouse." — Variety review</div>
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