00:00It is very hard to make original films right now.
00:03You know, I think everyone, Hollywood especially, is very obsessed with remakes and IP and all these other things, you know.
00:10And I'm very fortunate that I have such an amazing partnership with Blumhouse and Universal,
00:17who are very supportive, I think, of original movies and, you know, especially Blumhouse where I think they're big risk takers.
00:24You know, I think an advantage is that our movies are relatively inexpensive, you know,
00:29and so we can afford to be a little bit more risky.
00:33But I'm really hoping that audiences will come out and support original movies
00:39because otherwise there won't be any new franchises.
00:42You know, we're going to be trapped in old ones.
00:44What were the challenges involved in making this, like, original film?
00:47Yeah. So the producers brought the script to me.
00:51It was based on something that happened to them.
00:55They were at dinner on vacation, and somebody was airdropping them stuff, and they tried to figure out who was doing it.
01:03And they never did, but they walked away with this idea.
01:05And then they found the writers, Chris and Jill, and then they turned it into a thriller.
01:10And then I read the first draft of the script. It was, like, hot off the press.
01:13And they thought of me. And I read it. I loved it.
01:17I immediately sort of put on my writer hat, and I worked with the writers,
01:21and we kind of rolled our sleeves up and got into it,
01:23and then sort of slowly pushed the movie forward.
01:26And then you can do it.
01:44That's pretty stressful.
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