00:00In fact, I'm in my house in New Hampshire right now, and I have my sweet, sweet grandmother
00:06who would tell these stories and scare the hell out of all my football player friends,
00:11you know.
00:23We spoke for Escape Room 1, and you told me that you wanted to make a franchise.
00:32This is it.
00:33So how does it feel?
00:37Be careful what you wish for, right?
00:40No, it's good.
00:41You know, I think there's some pressure on the sequel, because if the sequel performs,
00:46then you get to make more, you know.
00:48So I feel like I was lucky with the first one that it was successful, but now we're coming
00:53out during a pandemic, and so, you know, you hope that the audience, A, likes it, but then
01:00B, wants a third, you know.
01:02So I never assume anything, but they're hard.
01:06I found the sequel was really hard because we, you know, we used fire and gas and gravity
01:13in the first movie.
01:14There was very few ways to kill people in this movie.
01:17I don't know what they're going to do for the third.
01:18They'll have to tickle people to death.
01:20You know, it'll be like death by cotton candy, you know.
01:24Yeah, one escape room in space and one with dinosaurs.
01:28So for the third one, please make those rooms.
01:33And in this one...
01:35I mean, dinosaurs are cheap.
01:38We can do that.
01:41In this one, there's a lot of teamwork.
01:45How important is teamwork for you?
01:48In the movie or in life?
01:50In life, but it's also in the movie because they have to work as a team to survive.
01:57Yeah, look, teamwork is the name of the game.
01:59You know, I always try to hire people that are better than me, and then they make me look
02:05good, and so filmmaking is the ultimate team working sport, you know, and I have such an
02:11amazing, amazing crew around me.
02:14You know, Ed Thomas, who is my production designer, he's just a genius, and he and his team,
02:20Cecilia, who designs the rooms, and all the way down through the art department, they're
02:25just tireless in terms of the way they work, and then my cinematographer, Mark Spicer, he
02:31just makes the frames look so beautiful, you know, and then I have an amazing editor named
02:35Peter Pav, just, you know, so all along the way, because I get, directors are really
02:42exhausted by the end, and then, you know, the editor carries you, and then, you know,
02:46and then my composer, Brian Tyler, I mean, that guy does massive Marvel movies, you know
02:51what I mean, and so he did us a favor to do this, and he's like a Nordic god, you
02:56know,
02:56and he, and he, the music, the music just carries it, the music, and then our sound design,
03:01so to answer your question, I, it's all about teamwork, and it's all about just really having
03:06great people around.
03:09You now know all the tricks to scare people, so when you watch a movie, what scares you?
03:18That's a great question, I'm getting older now, you know, I lost a parent, so health stuff
03:24is scary to me, you know, the body starting to break down, it's scary to me, you know,
03:32Alzheimer's, like we're doing, I'm doing a Netflix show about addiction, and addiction
03:38is scary to me, so I think the real world stuff that we deal with that, that is, that cuts
03:43to the bone, and then if I can turn it into a genre show, or a genre, some sort of
03:47genre
03:47of bend onto that, that's what excites me the most, but I also love, I love ghost stories,
03:54I don't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I, I know they're scary, and I was raised on
04:02ghost stories, my grandmother told me a lot of them as a kid, in fact, I'm in my, I'm in
04:06my house in New Hampshire right now, and I, my, my sweet, sweet grandmother who would tell
04:12these stories and scare the hell out of all my football player friends, you know, and they
04:17wouldn't want to even go to the bathroom alone, you know, so, so there's something about the
04:21ghost story that I think, I think it's still really scary.
04:24So you, you love to scare people, thanks to your grandmother.
04:29Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, yeah.
04:33If you have to, if you have to do, make a room for her, what would you do for her?
04:41For her?
04:42For your grandmother.
04:43Yeah.
04:45You know, she, she was always, she always liked to be cultured, and, and so I would put
04:50a bunch of people in a room with her that didn't speak, that spoke bad grammar, you know,
04:55and, and, and, uh, like, didn't have their shirts tucked in, and, you know, weren't, like,
05:00proper, like, that would, that would freak her out the most, I think, and she, and she loved
05:05books, she loved books, so I think a room where books are burning, or, like, she's gonna save
05:10the books from being, that, that, that would, that would be her biggest nightmare, is burning
05:14a book.
05:16Amazing.
05:16Thank you so much.
05:17Great work.
05:18I hope you do many more secrets.
05:20Oh, grazie.
05:22Ciao, grazie.
05:26Ciao, grazie.
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