I could also pull from my own personal family experience – I have some extended family that have had to deal with mental illness of one sort or another – and all that gets used. ![]() I mean, he had his specific notions and then I did my research. Did you have to do much research on depression or did David supply you with what you needed? Photo by Kerry Hayes – © 2011 Universal Studios. Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Lloyd and Joel Edgerton as Sam Carter in The Thing (2011). Those are the core ingredients that we started with: a laundry list of scares, the heart (because we wanted to have the positive characters that we wanted to root for) and a theme of depression. But there are a handful of my ideas that managed to make it into the film and I’m especially proud of those. He did a lot of the heavy lifting because heck, he’s going to direct and it’s my job to get him the script which he’ll be excited about shooting. So with that in mind, we went down a list. ![]() She represents mental illness and clinical depression, and how keeping that in the dark or keeping that as unspoken within a family can fracture a family dynamic and can even cause harm. David and I sat down and ran through a whole laundry list of scares that either tied-in with the dark or the thematic core of the movie, Diana. So we started with the idea that we’d make something with some heart and then figure out where we wanted to put in our scares. We wanted the audience to cheer when one of our characters managed to escape or survive an encounter with evil, versus having them cheer when a character dies! We weren’t in the business of making the kind of movie where you’re essentially rooting for the monster and all the characters are either disposable or just jerks. Something that David and I agreed on was that we wanted to be able to root for all these characters. The first step was to get the treatment or outline down that gave us the skeletal structure for a feature film and let us know where the scary is, and also where the real heart is. What’s the first step in taking a short and turning it into a feature length movie? So I returned to Lawrence and said, “Why don’t I join this as a producer and write the script on spec? Then once we get it to a place where we’re all mutually happy, we take it to a studio and tell them that this is the movie we want to make.”Īnd once James Wan stepped on we felt like we had our dream team.Īlexander DiPersia as Bret in Lights Out. I’d been doing some larger budget projects and I’d stayed away from horror after working on a science fiction project – like the one I worked on with Denis Villenueve that’s coming out this September – but I couldn’t shake it. I said that I’d love to do something like this, but my reps saw it as a step back. ![]() He had a lot of really smart things to say about how he saw a feature film version of it and I got very excited because it wasn’t just the conceptual scare that is the gimmick in the short film, there was a lot more to it. The other producer Lawrence Gray said that he’d gotten the rights to the short film and that he’d spoken to the director David Sanberg. If I ever saw that they were off I would turn them back on. ![]() Actually, it was more of the fact that I would leave the lights on. The movie did a great job of capitalizing on people’s fear of the dark and wondering if someone is “in there.” Did your wife ever find you turning lights on and off and you just explaining it was “research?“ Gabriel Bateman as Martin and Teresa Palmer as Rebecca in Lights Out.
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