Director Chris Columbus, known for his heartwarming holiday films, delves into his latest project, the eerie horror film Nosferatu. He discusses his collaboration with writer-director Robert Eggers, his fascination with the macabre, and his decision to produce the film with his daughter, Eleanor. Columbus also shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes about past projects, including his experience with Chevy Chase on Christmas Vacation and Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2.
In fact, Columbus has been helping produce the eerie, unsettling work of writer-director Robert Eggers since the filmmaker’s first feature, 2015’s The Witch, which was followed up by his 2019 madness-at-the-edge-of-the-sea drama, The Lighthouse. “Just because I make a certain, specific kind of film didn’t mean I wasn’t in love with every other genre of filmmaking,” Columbus tells Vanity Fair.
People would expect, based on my surface career, that maybe I would be pushing him away from that sort of thing. But I was pushing him toward as much violence as possible, to make it as bloody as possible. I do love that stuff. But you didn’t push back when Gremlins became more comedic and lighthearted? I felt that, at the time: Who am I? I certainly did not have enough ego or experience to tell Spielberg, “Oh, you’re wrong. We need to make it as violent as possible.” He was absolutely right.
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