Directors Notes - “Guy Pearce faces the dark consequences of isolation and loneliness in Jesse Leaman's ‘Lorne’”

Lorne, in short, is a very personal examination of one’s self affected by self isolation. Our character is a lonely traveller who has set up camp out in the wilderness, seemingly to hide from what the world has become, or what he thinks it has become.

The idea for Lorne came from a restless sleep, I woke up 3am and the idea was there. The most important aspect was to make sure the film was not about a plot twist or anything like that, but instead the absolute sadness and nature of the situation. I met Taylor Adams shortly after having the idea. His writing style was perfect, and our brains were very much in sync on how to develop Lorne into a believable character spurred from our philosophies on life and death, and how we as human beings revolve around this idea. We wanted to analyse what sort of mark is left from someone’s passing, be it courageous or cowardly, which helped us define the setting our story takes place in…

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