Its amazing, he told Deadline.
Ive never produced a film thats been in a conversation to this point.
Im thrilled because so much went into the writing of that.
Jonathan Glazer poses with The Grand Prix Award for ‘The Zone of Interest’Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty Images
Wilson said that it was Glazer who spotted Amis tome first.
There was something about that idea that Jonathan sparked to.
The producer optioned the book in late 2014.
Jim Wilson, ‘The Zone of Interest’ producerBaz Bamigboye/Deadline
We developed it on our own for four or five years, he said.
The Amis book fictionalizes the names of the concentration camp and the name of the commandant.
They also made a point of seeing where Hoss and his family lived.
Its a private home now… and literally on the other side of the garden wall is the camp.
He literally chose to live next door to Auschwitz.
A lot of Polish people worked in the houses of SS officers.
They were nannies, gardeners, cleaners.
Hedwig would pick from the prisoners who had an expertise in gardening.
We set our researchers to look at domestic and private episodes.
Its almost like a ritualistic gathering of documentary material and conforming it into a feature idea.
In essence the dialogue came from that research, Wilson said.
Im thrilled for Jonathan, the whole team, the nominees and my producing partner Ewa Puszczynska.
Its just remarkable what they all did, he stated.
To be honest I panicked at the responsibility and thought he was mad.
Tarn Willers: I am thrilled to receive this nomination!
Im delighted and at the same time humbled that our work has been recognised in such a way.
