The Marsh King's Daughter's Director Knows His Movie Won’t Please Every Fan of the Book

In The Marsh King’s Daughter, Daisy Ridley stars as Helena Pelletier, a wife, a mother, and the daughter of an infamous criminal mastermind known as the Marsh King, played by Ben Mendelsohn. It’s been years since Helena escaped from her abusive father, and she’s since made a life all her own, but in an instant, her security and safety all come crashing down. Jacob Holbrook, the Marsh King, has escaped from prison, and he’s never given up the need to possess her. To protect everything she holds dear, Helena is forced to confront her past, no matter how dangerous.

The movie is adapted from Karen Dionne’s bestseller, and Burger tells Collider’s Steve Weintraub that it’s a story “where the past comes back to haunt the present,” which is ultimately what drew him to make this his next feature. That, and the fact that Burger was looking for something that could make nature a central focus, “almost a character” itself. He certainly found it. According to the director, in spite of others’ opinions, Burger was intent on capturing the visual themes of the movie by filming in some pretty “brutal” and remote locations. That meant crew and cast, including Ridley, Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince, and Garrett Hedlund, had to be game for anything – except dressing rooms and bathrooms.

During their interview, which you can check out in the video above or the transcript below, Burger also talks about the challenges faced when adapting a bestselling novel, and why sometimes movies have to veer from the original narrative. He also discusses the editing process, deleted scenes, and how test screenings helped balance the character development and the suspense he was looking for. Check out all of this and more on his next movie, Inheritance, with Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor, in the full interview.

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