GABRIELLA WILDE as Jade and as David in Endless Love.

There is nothing more overpowering, reckless and (The Three Musketeers, ) in the story of Jade all-consuming than the rush that accompanies first Butterfield and David Elliot, a privileged girl and a love…in all of its intensity and obsession, possibility and charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair promise. It is a timeless theme in modern storytelling, made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them dating back to Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, but apart. Although separated by class boundaries, their one that remains urgently current because it serves as a gravitational pull is undeniable and unstoppable. rite of passage for everyone in every generation. During the months following their high school This Valentine’s Day, one young couple will fight graduation, Jade, a sheltered young woman with a against all odds for love. limitless future, becomes enthralled with David, a Endless Love stars ALEX PETTYFER (Magic working-class boy with a troubled past who in turn falls Mike, I Am Number Four) and GABRIELLA WILDE head over heels for her. Their romance collides with

– 9 – To produce the film, SCOTT STUBER (Ted, Safe House) of Bluegrass Films and producer PAMELA ABDY (Identity Thief, 47 Ronin) of New Regency are joined by (TV’s , The O.C.) and STEPHANIE SAVAGE (TV’s Gossip Girl, ) of Fake Empire. For Endless Love, Feste commands a behind-the-scenes team that is led by director of photography ANDREW DUNN (Precious, The Perks of Being

Jade and David are inseparable. a Wallflower), production designer CLAY GRIFFITH (We Bought a Zoo, Jade’s controlling father’s attempts to steer her clear of Sweet Home Alabama), editor MARYANN BRANDON David, while her mother encourages the relationship to (, Super 8), costume designer STACEY BATTAT thrive and his father advises clear-eyed caution. Over (The Bling Ring, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby) the course of one unforgettable summer, two young and composer CHRISTOPHE BECK (The Hangover lovers will defy logic and allow their all-consuming trilogy, The Muppets). passion to determine their future together. Based on the book by , Directed by (, Endless Love is from a screenplay by Shana Feste and The Greatest), the romantic drama co-stars a cast (Gossip Girl). J. MILES DALE of seasoned and up-and-coming performers, led by (The Vow) and TRACY FALCO (Lions for Lambs) BRUCE GREENWOOD (Star Trek, Flight) as Hugh, serve as the romantic drama’s executive producers. Jade’s overbearing father who never lets her out of his sight; JOELY RICHARDSON (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Vampire Academy) as Anne, Jade’s ABOUT THE romantic and idealistic mother who has the heart of a PRODUCTION poet; and ROBERT PATRICK (Safe House, upcoming Kill the Messenger) as David’s father, Harry, a mechanic Fight for Love: who wants his son to have the life he never did. The Production Begins They are joined by young talents RHYS WAKEFIELD (The Purge, Sanctum) as Keith, Jade’s The idea to draw inspiration from Scott Spencer’s loving, yet rebellious, older brother; DAYO OKENIYI 1979 best-selling novel about teenage lovers and (The Hunger Games, The Spectacular Now) as Mace, bring those themes to young moviegoers in the David’s fantastically reckless best friend; and EMMA 21st century originated with producers Scott Stuber RIGBY (The Counselor, television’s Once Upon a and Pamela Abdy, who, early on, attracted a pair of ideal Time in Wonderland) as Jenny, David’s formidable ex- collaborators. Although this all-consuming territory girlfriend who refuses to give up on him so easily. has been explored in films for much older audiences,

– 10 – they were interested in taking an exploration of a love believed that their Jade Butterfield and David so intense that nothing will stand in its way and making Elliot should discover the beautiful abandonment it relatable for a “PG-13” audience. and repercussions of falling into your first love. Abdy shares the film’s inception: “When Scott and They knew that the intended audience would see I talked about doing Endless Love as a film, we thought and experience a great deal of their own first it would be a good idea to approach Josh Schwartz relationships in this drama. and Stephanie Savage, who are the king and queen “I love romantic movies and love stories,” offers of the teen genre. They have created such wonderful, Savage, “and something that is always a huge part smart work that speaks to that generation: The O.C. in the TV shows that Josh and I do is the theme of and Gossip Girl and now The Carrie Diaries. At that young people falling in love for the first time—losing point, the development process began and we worked themselves, making good and bad decisions and to make the best, most contemporary version of going on a journey—which is relatable for everybody. a teenage first-love story.” You’ve either been in love and had your heart broken Stuber shared his fellow producers’ interest in or you want to be in love. Even when you get older, developing the material. He notes: “I thought this you often think about that teenage love and the was a great way to explore two people who have first time that you fell.” the ups and downs of their first love. The first time Schwartz and Savage developed the script for that you feel those emotions, there’s euphoria to Endless Love with Joshua Safran, one of the duo’s them, and this great love expands who you are. As Gossip Girl writers, with whom they had worked well, there’s a great sadness when it goes wrong. for years. Whereas Spencer’s novel has somewhat You feel it on such a level that you can’t again, as more political and darker elements than this film, the there is only one first time.” producers remain grateful for its inspiration and took For Schwartz, the challenge was to ensure that the liberties with his characters and narrative. Commends film would both honor the classic movie melodrama Savage: “Josh is smart and is a terrific, emotional writer; and feel like a current, relevant romance. “Stephanie and I have worked together for a long time, and we love classic teen drama,” he says. “When you’re telling a story about teenagers, everything seems so heightened and feels like life and death. We wanted to create a modern-day epic love story that still feels grounded, believable and has a bit of a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ quality to it.” With this telling of the classic story, the producers (L to R) David, Mace (DAYO OKENIYI) and David’s father, Harry (ROBERT PATRICK), celebrate graduation.

– 11 – she’s thought through every stage— from working through the story and writing the script to figuring out the characters’ relationships and how they were intertwined.” The writers imagined Jade as a sheltered and inexperienced high- school senior who falls for David, a dangerous young man with a dark history. Her father strongly objects to the passionate relationship that’s blossoming and the newfound freedom that Jade’s discovering with a guy he is

Gabriella Wilde is Jade Butterfield. certain is wrong for her. There’s little he can do about her evolution or David’s we love his voice. We knew he would understand the increasing presence and influence upon her. In fact, elevated world of Jade’s family and bring to this original Jade’s intense feelings for David are a constant, thorny script the story of a family that had suffered and hadn’t reminder to both her father and mother of what has recovered from the loss of their son. As well, he could slowly died in their marriage. As Jade consciously says help the audience understand how David, this scrappy goodbye to her innocent past, she has an awakening kid from the other side of the tracks, comes into their that will change both of them forever. lives and ignites Jade’s heart.” Stuber found soulfulness to Feste’s approach to After organizing the core team and commissioning the material, one that echoed a classic fairy tale. He a draft, the producers approached Country Strong’s explains: “In the way that Jade is articulated, she’s Shana Feste to direct. As Schwartz notes: “Shana came Rapunzel. She’s a girl who had a brother who died of in with such a great sensibility about the material. cancer, which inevitably made her mother and father She has an acute understanding of character and love that much more of helicopter parents. The loss of a stories. Most importantly, she vividly remembers being child is the worst thing that could happen to anyone, a teenager and tapped into many of the things that and that loss manifests itself in different ways. In the appealed to the rest of us about the story.” case of Jade’s father, it turned him into an overbearing Savage agrees with her fellow producer’s man who has limited his daughter’s ability to be a real assessment: “Shana had directed two previous movies person in high school. She’s lost out on those years and that had amazing performances, especially from young is a girl in a gilded cage until David breaks her out of it. actors. We knew that if we could get Shana to direct the He can see her for who she really is.” movie it would feel authentic. Her belief in love and the Feste elaborates upon her interest in the project: “I theme of the movie is imbued in every scene; lightness, wanted to direct this film because I wanted to make a warmth and hopefulness permeate through everything.” contemporary love story. I was immediately drawn to Once Feste signed on to the project, she tailored the idea of making a movie about falling in love and the script to her sensibilities. Abdy explains: “The exploring themes that are important to me—being life of each character is important to Shana, and brave and putting love first. To have that message reach

– 12 – hundreds of thousands of people in this generation that love again, believing that no matter what age you is an amazing opportunity.” are, everyone can feel love and passion.” The writer/director aimed to create an experience that would have the audience rooting for our couple. Her goal was to expose the intensity and passion of Instant Connection: first love, and she was determined to put that into Casting the Drama each frame of the movie. The director shares: “I wanted a happy ending for this story. I wanted our Finding talented young actors who could provide the characters to win, and I wanted love to win. That’s essential chemistry of David and Jade was the filmmakers’ the story that I wanted to tell: that real love, your top priority. They discovered the ideal performers in first love, can be the most powerful.” Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde. Shares Schwartz: She continues: “I thought a lot about ‘Romeo and “In a love story, this is the whole ball game. The first Juliet’ when I was writing and was also inspired by time we saw Alex and Gabriella on screen, everyone the photography of Ryan McGinley. The connection was very aware of their chemistry. You just felt it was to teenagers in his work feels inclusive, fun and young there. Beyond the fact that they are both very attractive and . I didn’t want the characters’ love to feel people, you felt this real connection between them.” portrayed from a distance. I wanted it to feel like we Schwartz admired his director’s knack with the were experiencing it. McGinley’s photography lets you talent. “Shana is wonderful working with young actors be in the world of his subjects, and that’s how I wanted and getting them to open up to one another and letting to feel when I was watching Jade and David. David the audience into that love story,” he says. “She spent is a brooding, yet charming, guy who awakens this so much time in rehearsal with Alex and Gabriella wonderful, ethereal girl for the first time.” helping them forge that connection and open up The self-described romantic admits that what also drew her to the project was her personal experience of seeing a love story told on screen for the first time. “I want what I experienced when I saw my first love story,” she says. “I walked away from that theater thinking, ‘I cannot wait to fall in love. I can’t wait to meet that guy and have all of that.’ That’s what I want every girl in the audience to think when they watch this movie.” Abdy was moved by how Feste and Safran had so beautifully captured the intimacy and explosiveness of first love. She offers: “The script gave us a Jade and David who were feeling something they’ve never felt before: this love and passion and desire to be happy. But there are other people that don’t understand that feeling, who may have once found that feeling with someone but have lost it now, so David and Jade have to be brave and fight for it.” Agreeing with her director’s sentiment, Abdy sums: “The movie is about embracing Alex Pettyfer is David Elliot.

– 13 – interesting place of wanting people to relate and connect. It’s not so much about a sole performance; it’s about collaboration. She’s given me a new look into how to connect with who I’m playing and where I’m going in the story.” Stuber adds that the care his director put into the on-screen couple finding comfort in one another was one of the virtues of the production: “There’s a complete and utter believability to all of their interactions. Gabriella and Alex are natural and organic; they have

Hugh (BRUCE GREENWOOD) confronts David. chemistry and feel like people in love. That’s a testament to their work as not only to each other, but to the camera as well. It’s such actors, as well as Shana and the time she put in so that a challenge for an actor to be exposed, and her patience they could talk through the places that they were going to and guidance have resulted in terrific performances.” have to go with each other.” As part of the rehearsal and bonding process, Feste When David connects with Jade, he finds a girl who says Pettyfer and Wilde spent a good deal of time has suffered a loss in her family that has taken her out of together off set and did a lot of fun exercises, including the social world of school. Even though she’s beautiful dancing to loud music. As filming started, the director and bright, she’s not outgoing and hasn’t become a felt inspired by the talent and commitment of her young part of the high school. While he encourages her to see actors. She shares: “They came to respect each other that she is a free spirit and that someone could so much. When you’re doing a love story, you have to fall in love with her, she gives him the confidence know that the other person has your back.” to believe in himself. When they meet, the temperaments of the soon- The filmmakers found that the British-born Wilde to-be young lovers are as different as their cultural embodies many of Jade’s traits. Feste explains: “I and economic status. Feste praises her leading man, pictured Jade as gorgeous, and Gabriella definitely who plays David as a young man you root for: “Alex is that. But how Gabriella wears her beauty is her is a total romantic. What struck me the first time I strongest suit. She has no idea how gorgeous she is. met him is how open he was talking about the love he As we were starting to rehearse, I saw Gabriella open wants to find. Most 23-year-old guys are not talking up. She is close to the character of Jade: aware of what openly about love! David believes that he deserves people think of her and quite shy. She’s an introvert, love and Alex believes that he deserves love, and and I imagined that Jade would be an introvert. Seeing that translates in the movie.” Gabriella as Jade let love change and inspire her has Pettyfer discusses his director’s process: “We did been fun to watch. Her arc is so strong in this movie, some interesting rehearsing, and that helped. Shana and that’s when you forget how beautiful Gabriella is guided us along the path. She comes from such an and just realize that she is an amazing actress.”

– 14 – Wilde walks us through the story’s beats: “David Feste to have the audience also see the warmth of his awakens Jade to her own voice and to her youth. At character, so as to not have Hugh appear as a clichéd the beginning, she’s quite serious and burdened by a villain. His on-screen daughter reflects on Greenwood’s sense of guilt toward her family following the death talent. “Bruce is a brilliant actor,” lauds Wilde. “There’s of her brother Chris. She’s someone who’s trying to a danger that Hugh could have just been a villain, but make it all okay all of the time, and this is where David Bruce has kept the humanity in Hugh. While he is a gives her license to be herself. She finds her voice in villain—what he does is frightening and wrong— the movie as she’s falling in love. Jade goes from being you can understand where it all comes from; he’s suppressed to putting everything aside to fight for love done that brilliantly.” and what she believes in.” Producer Schwartz was taken with Greenwood’s Feste wasn’t the only one impressed with Wilde’s performance and ability to bring an incredible humanity demeanor. “Gabriella is amazing,” praises Pettyfer. to stoic Hugh. Schwartz shares: “When you see Bruce “She has this beauty that takes you aback. She looks on screen, you sense a strength and integrity to him. like a supermodel, but she also is grounded and actually This makes the fact that he’s the antagonist of the movie quite shy—the most beautiful girl mixed with the very interesting. Hugh will go to great lengths to keep quiet girl. She was perfect for Jade.” his daughter from David in ways that the audience may To play Jade’s parents, the production cast the not agree with, but can always understand.” accomplished veteran actors Bruce Greenwood as Feste shares that they conceived of the parents by Hugh Butterfield, a father whose desire to protect his seeing them in shades of gray. Both Hugh and Harry daughter leads to awful results, and Joely Richardson protect their children the best way they can. The as Anne Butterfield, Jade’s sympathetic mother who is director explains: “Do either one of them understand just as romantic as her only daughter. the love that David and Jade have? I don’t think so. I Greenwood, an award-winning actor who has starred think maybe toward the end of the film they start to. in such acclaimed films as Star Trek Into Darkness and Are they afraid of it? Yes, sure, because that intensity Flight, brings to life Jade’s menacing, if well-meaning, is frightening to see because it’s all-consuming. father. Discussing the part, the actor offers: “One of the foremost things that interested me about the character was that he was a father learning to let go of a child that he loves beyond all measure, after having lost a child. Trying to keep her from harm, but at the same time guide her is a tremendous struggle for him; he begins to overreact and becomes rigid in the way he looks at his daughter’s aspirations.” Hugh is a successful surgeon in Atlanta who strongly objects to the relationship that’s blossoming between

Jade and David. It was important to Sabine (ANNA ENGER) and Keith (RHYS WAKEFIELD) get the party started at his family home.

– 15 – “She has that mother’s instinct that picks up that he’s a good guy. But the big thing that wins her over is that David has this enormous love for her daughter, and that melts her heart.” Savage compares the character of Anne to Richardson’s real-life persona, a woman inspired by love. She notes: “Joely is elegance personified. Anne is a character who is very observant. She is the glue that holds her family together and Joely is great at playing all those small moments, the looks, the gestures.

Jade visits David at work. She’s always taking care of her family, concerned about where everybody is Anne is the one character who is not afraid of that love, emotionally and how to keep them together. Joely is but is drawn to it and wants to celebrate it.” tuned into that in a great way.” Anne is a published author who hasn’t written in On the other side of the tracks, David’s father Harry, years. Like Hugh, she mourns the loss of their eldest an automotive mechanic who works in the shop he owns, child, but while her husband’s grief pushes her away, hasn’t considered love in a long time. His wife walked she wants to hold on to their marriage. Stuber explains out on him a few years earlier, and he’s closed his heart. why this character is so pivotal to Jade and David’s arc: Unlike his co-stars (Pettyfer, Wilde, Richardson) who “Anne has a husband who’s cheating on her, and she’s are British and Canadian (Greenwood), veteran actor aware of it. She’s living a lie. But seeing this young Robert Patrick is from Georgia. “With his Southern man who’s being honest with who he is and authentic roots,” says Savage, “Robert brings texture and a in his love for her daughter…that’s a big deal to Anne. completely different flavor. The Butterfields are a very That’s something she respects to the point that she gives refined family, and Harry represents this whole other David information she likely shouldn’t.” aspect of David’s world.” For her part, Richardson was impressed with Feste’s Patrick sheds some light on the background of his directorial style, one that allowed her to play Anne as character: “Harry is raising his son the best way he a forgiving character who operates from a base of love knows how. It’s a loving environment. When you meet for others—as well as a woman who has lost herself Harry, you know that he’s a good, salt-of-the-earth guy. to a controlling husband. Richardson shares: “Shana He’s a man’s man who is used to getting dirty, and is precise, thinks outside the box and knows exactly he’s raised his son that way—to stand up for himself what she wants. As an actor, you can be used to self- and be who he is.” directing. With Shana, she thinks of these imaginative The actor recalls his first meeting with his new scenarios to get you to do the scene the way she’d like.” son: “When I met Alex, it just felt great; we had an While Greenwood’s Hugh feels immediate disdain instantaneous chemistry. He even looks like my son, for David, Richardson’s Anne feels drawn to the young which was funny to me, Alex and my son. They’re man’s spirit from the beginning. Richardson explains: so similar that we actually used pictures of my little

– 16 – boy as David when he was younger.” which is something that the whole family is The energy and versatility that Patrick brought to in great need of.” the story and his role was put to good use. Pettyfer It was important to Feste that Keith and Jade’s felt that in spades: “It was so crazy. Robert came on relationship was based on support for each other. She set, I hadn’t met him yet, and I wanted to seem very shares: “Rhys is an incredible actor. He’s mischievous professional and I’m nervous: ‘I’m...I’m Alex. Very and has this wonderful smile. The minute Rhys and nice to meet you. I play your son.’ And he gives me a Gabriella got together, I knew they would be perfect massive hug and says, ‘This is my son, everybody.’ It because they genuinely support each other as actors. was exciting to work with him.” I feel incredibly lucky to have cast Rhys because After assembling the two leads and their parents, he adds so much to Keith that the audience will be the team got to work building a stellar up-and-coming celebrating when he embraces this message to be brave supporting cast. As there is darkness in Jade’s past and and fight for love.” David’s background, there was a potential of making David’s best friend, Mace, is played by Nigerian- the film too serious. The talented young actors brought born Dayo Okeniyi, who is best known for his role in humor and liveliness to the project. The Hunger Games. “Dayo is incredibly charismatic,” Filmmakers encouraged the entire cast to hang out says Feste. “Mace represents David’s old world— and get to know each other off camera, which helped peaking in high school. Dayo is one of those actors who to enhance each relationship on camera. Abdy offers: brings such a fresh, fun energy to the film. Most of what “In rehearsals, they got to know one another, become he does is all improvised. I love his improvisation— friends and learn to tell truths about each other so he’s so clever and so funny.” that you feel that there’s a life behind the movie. Okeniyi shares what drew him to the role of Mace: We encouraged them to go do fun things by “Before Endless Love, I’d come off projects where I themselves. Shana brought all that to the table as a was sci-fi intense, with a lot of death and destruction, director who is very character-driven. Because she’s and for the first time, a character came my way that a writer, too, she’s very much into the context and was down to earth, if a bit on the wild side. When I the life of each character.” Australian Rhys Wakefield plays Keith, Jade’s flippant, charming and protective older brother. “What I like about Keith,” says Wakefield, “is that he has this deep-seated pain within him. There’s this history of a father-son relationship gone awry. His purpose in this film is to help Jade along in her journey and to welcome David into the household, acting as a bridge between the parent and this outsider. David represents healing to Keith as well, coming in as he does and mixing things up, Hugh, Jade, David and Anne (JOELY RICHARDSON) at the Butterfield lake house.

– 17 – Capturing the Passion: Design and Locations

The paths of David and Jade’s story are reflected in the design of the film. Feste assembled a stellar behind-the-scenes team—led by cinematographer Andrew Dunn, production designer Clay Griffith and costume designer Stacey Battat—to bring her vision from script to screen. For Griffith, the inspiration for the

Hugh refuses to listen to Anne. colors of the production began by sitting down with Dunn, Battat and was testing for the role, Shana said that he should Feste, and pulling photographs that would reflect be the light of the movie. Whenever Mace comes on their shared, desired palette. Griffith recalls: “It’s screen, he should just be that breath of fresh air, the not often that the director, director of photography, reaffirming friend. At the same time, she didn’t want costume designer and production designer sit down him to be a caricature.” and conjure up the look of the film. But we did, and When David meets Jade, he has just broken up with it was fantastic.” his girlfriend, Jenny, played by British actress Emma Because they were on location in Atlanta for 34 Rigby in her first American feature-film role. Jenny and of the 37 shooting days, and not on a soundstage, Jade are complete opposites: she’s overtly sexual and the color palette was more difficult to control. But flirtatious with David, which makes us understand why Griffith worked with costume designer Battat to Jade feels threatened. As David and Jade’s relationship create the film’s signature look. The costume designer develops, Jenny refuses to watch passively. Her act of describes the style evolution of Jade’s character revenge succeeds in separating them—possibly forever. progressing from girl to woman: “We wanted Jade Feste wanted to explore the character of Jade by to be more of a little girl at the beginning and then contrasting her with Jenny, while also making sure progress into being a woman. The fact that she’s still that there was a genuine relationship between Jenny a kid means she might want to wear her dresses with and David. “Emma has a tough role,” says the director, Converse high-tops. Jade’s color scheme is what I “because Jenny is the girl that you want to hate. Still, there like to call a ‘1920s color palette’—soft, muted pale were takes where I said, ‘Emma, it’s just making me too pinks, peaches and minty greens with occasional sad, you are too good right now; just do less, because I’m reds when she’s being defiant of her father. When feeling too much for you. You look too heartbroken that she chooses David, she’s in red.” David has chosen someone else and we always have to On the opposite end, it was important that be thinking that Jade and David have the strongest bond.’ David’s wardrobe reflect his demeanor of little But Emma is such a strong actress that sometimes you change. Shares Battat: “David is a stable force can’t help but have your heart go out to her.” in the movie, so his wardrobe always remains

– 18 – constant; his look remains consistent, like a we created together.” James Dean-type character.” Endless Love’s set was located almost entirely One of Feste’s priorities was to find a romantic in and around Atlanta, from May to July 2013. to shoot the film. Enter BAFTA Award-winning “Josh and I had never shot in Georgia before,” director of photography Andrew Dunn, who allowed says Savage, “so this was our first time here. There for specific spacing of the characters to reflect are so many different places to shoot—from the Feste’s vision. “We initially created a tightness of beautiful Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead, where space around Jade,” notes Dunn. “As she becomes a the Butterfield house is, to the more urban spot woman, develops her own point of view and finds her where we found an amazing old garage for Harry’s place in life and in love, we created more freedom place, to the gorgeous lake house on Lake Jackson of space around her. She becomes more the outside of the city. From the diversity of looks, the mistress of her environment and her space becomes freer.” Something of critical importance to Feste was having a team that was very open to love. Reflecting on Dunn, she compliments: “He is so incredibly generous and calm and his spirit is so giving that I knew he would be perfect to shoot a love story. It’s great that he’s so open and not cynical. When I explained what I wanted in a scene or how I wanted a kiss to go and he said, ‘Oh, that’s beautiful,’ I knew that he meant it. On top of that, he’s made the actors feel so free with their emotions.” The camaraderie was felt between Dunn and Feste. “Working with Shana was an energizing and uplifting experience for me. She has such a special view,” notes Dunn. “She is wonderful with the actors, understands the story so well—and it all comes from her heart. Shana is very inspiring. She’s a writer, she understands her subjects and what she is trying to get from the story, which has inspired me to go on a journey with her and draw out that story through the images, through the lighting, camera placement, movement that Nothing will keep David and Jade apart.

– 19 – Writer/Director SHANA FESTE and GABRIELLA WILDE as Jade on the set of Endless Love. great local crews and the good restaurants— To compose the film, Feste sought out we really enjoyed our time here.” award-winning artist Christophe Beck, who has scored such beloved teen movies as Pitch Perfect and Crazy, Stupid, Love., not to Sounds of Romance: mention drafted the signature sounds for the Building the Soundtrack teen series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Of his interest in the project, Beck shares: “What Little is more important in a romantic made Endless Love fun was the challenge drama about the fight to keep the one you of scale. Young love isn’t a soaring, operatic love than the music that encapsulates those adventure; it’s a much more intimate experience. intense emotions. To create a soundtrack that So in approaching the music, Shana and I had incorporated each mood experienced by Jade to find balance between keeping the size of the and David, Feste worked closely with producer musical ideas appropriate for the self-discovery Schwartz. She shares: “Josh and I wanted a and introspection that are central to the story, young, fun soundtrack for this film, but it but still evoke the timelessness that people feel was also important to utilize music that takes when they reflect on their earliest experiences us through the ups and downs of David and of falling in love.” Jade’s relationship and their intense growth.” Brought aboard to perform the film’s theme

– 20 – was a beloved duo. Over the past 13 years, felt by our hero and heroine, especially twin sisters TEGAN and SARA QUIN have faith, hope and love.” built an avid global fan base with songs such as “Walking With a Ghost” and “Alligator.” **** The duo’s hit singles have been covered by the likes of The White Stripes and Passion Pit. With production wrapped, the cast and Intimately familiar with teenage angst and the crew reflect on lessons learned from the shoot. power of falling in love for the first time, Tegan Concludes Stuber: “In the film, there’s a and Sara have appeared on The CW’s 90210. beginning love story between Jade and David, Schwartz, however, became a big fan of the duo who are figuring out who they’re going to be after seeing them perform at Coachella in 2005. in the world. Then there is this decaying love Discussing the filmmakers’ choice, story between Jade’s parents, and we wonder Schwartz enthuses: “Coming from Gossip if they can possibly figure it out. Love is a Girl and The O.C., I knew the importance of complex thing; it’s a muscle that has to be courting musicians that speak intimately to worked out. Shana has shared so much of the our core audience. Tegan and Sara understood complexity of love in this film. It’s not just the tone we were going for with the music and about the people you meet here….it’s about delivered in a manner that knocked us out.” love in its broadest terms.” In addition to the contributions of Beck and Tegan and Sara, the soundtrack—brought **** together by accomplished music supervisor RANDALL POSTER—features fun-loving Universal Pictures presents a Bluegrass songs including FRANZ FERDINAND’s Films/Fake Empire production: Endless Love, “Right Action,” NONONO’s “Pumpin Blood starring Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce (The Jane Doze Remix)” and CULT’s “Go Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick. Outside,” and such romantic ballads as LORD The film’s music is by Christophe Beck, and HURON’s “Ends of the Earth,” ECHOSMITH’s the music supervisor is Randall Poster. The “Surround You” and THE BIRD AND THE costumes are designed by Stacey Battat. Endless BEE’s “All Our Endless Love,” featuring Love is edited by Maryann Brandon, ACE, MATT BERNINGER. and the production designer is Clay Griffith. Feste sums up the contributions of the The film’s director of photography is Andrew multiple artists who brought to life Endless Dunn, BSC. The executive producers are J. Love’s soundtrack and themes: “Our goal with Miles Dale, Tracy Falco. The romantic drama is this movie was to seamlessly merge David and produced by Scott Stuber, p.g.a., Pamela Abdy, Jade’s feelings for one another into a cohesive p.g.a., Josh Schwartz, p.g.a., Stephanie Savage, soundtrack. From the incredible talents p.g.a. Endless Love is based on the book by of Randall and Christophe to Tegan and Sara’s Scott Spencer, and its screenplay is by Shana recording of our theme song, ‘Don’t Find Feste and Joshua Safran. The film is directed Another Love,’ I know that we have taken the by Shana Feste. ©2014 Universal Pictures. audience along the gamut of the emotions www.endlesslovemovie.com

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