• Uncertainty Film //
  • Have you ever been faced with a decision and were certain it would lead your life in two totally different directions?

    UNCERTAINTY is a movie about the life-changing significance of a random flip of a coin in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.

    We're Scott McGehee and David Siegel, and we directed UNCERTAINTY. But we wrote this story, in a way, with Joe and Lynn, improvising all the dialogue through a month of rehearsals in restaurants and subway cars, and on the streets of Chinatown and Queens.

    Now available on good old fashioned DVD. //
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This audition was just Scott and David and me and Lynn — and I still feel like it was some of my favorite acting I’ve ever done. It was just really immediate and resonant. I loved it. As soon as we were done with that, I was like, “I really want to do this. I hope they let me do this. I hope they let me do this with her.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, interviewed in Salon.com
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Uncertainty” was different from a normal rehearsal process because “Uncertainty” is different from a normal filmmaking process. The scenes weren’t written, so you could almost classify the rehearsing as writing. Not that we were writing anything, but we were creating what the movie was going to be, not just practicing what we already knew it was going to be.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, interviewed in Salon.com
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Page 9 from the original script of UNCERTAINTY.  The screenplay was an unusual one: fully plotted, but with almost no written dialogue.  We wanted to leave the characters’ voices open to a process with the actors.  The screenplay is unlike anything we’ve ever written, as a result.  It was finished by the actors, in front of the camera. (Click here to see the finished scenes.)
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Page 38 from the original script of UNCERTAINTY.  The screenplay was an unusual one: fully plotted, but with almost no written dialogue.  We wanted to leave the characters’ voices open to a process with the actors.  The screenplay is unlike anything we’ve ever written, as a result.  It was finished by the actors, in front of the camera. (click here to see the finished scenes.)
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