‘The Menu’ Director Mark Mylod on Shift From ‘Succession’ to a Twisted Satire on Fine Dining (Video)
thewrap.com“The Menu,” a dark, bloody satire of the one percent and the restaurants that cater to them. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the pretentious, craft-obsessed head chef at an exclusive restaurant on a remote island.
Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy play a foodie and his very skeptical girlfriend who pay $2,500 to attend an exclusive dinner on this island, but soon find themselves ensnared in the dark secret behind this restaurant that slowly reveals itself with each passing course.
Mylod is an Emmy winner as producer of the acclaimed HBO series “Succession” and has directed episodes of that show, along with “Game of Thrones,” “Entourage,” and “Shameless.” He told TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards, Steve Pond, that he signed on for “The Menu” after reading the script while directing an episode of “Succession.” “When I first started to direct, I wanted that theatrical career.
But my early movies weren’t very good, to be honest, so I had a lot of growing up to do,” Mylod said. The script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, he said, “had a unique tone that I knew would be hard to find.
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