I mean, you're both right to some extent. The way the article is written implies that it will be filmed over many years, in the same way that "Boyhood" was. Reducing it to "the films spans multiple years" is not true to the spirit of the reference; knowing Linklater's body of work, which has delighted in telling stories that span decades (see also the "Before" trilogy), we have to go out of our way to presume that the way the film spans time will *only* be in the body of the story, rather than the process as well.
At the same time, the article does not specify exactly how long the filming will take place, and 20 years seems a notably long time, considering that the only comparable span of time is in the "Before" trilogy, which resulted in three films, rather than one. Considering that Linklater is nearly 60, a 20 year filming span is questionably ambitious, even if we exclude other factors that make banking on 2039 as a good time to release obscure musical movies seem optimistic. |
