REBORN SUPREMACY
Located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Studio Babelsberg has been operational since 1912, making it the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. In the 1920s, it homed Fritz Lang’s towering sciencefiction masterpiece Metropolis, while it’s recently played host to Bridge Of Spies, Captain America: Civil War and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life.
It is, however, debatable whether its studio area of 270,000 square feet has ever seen more carnage than it’s now witnessing on this overcast day in November 2019. Producer-star Michael B. Jordan and director Stefano Sollima are a month into shooting , and a ginormous gunfight has just taken place at the intersection of four Russian streets. Torn-up police cars stand at zig-zagging angles, and many of the surrounding buildings are, to use the technical term, shot to shit. wanders into one of the buildings that look down on the crossroads, and climbs the staircase to a room that’s littered with bullet holes. Jordan’s character, John Kelly, earlier exchanged fire from this room, and
