Scott Stuber discusses which films are in development, what sequels to look out for, which original movies they're working on, new IP, and tons more.
The Big Picture While attending the grand reopening of the American Cinematheque at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood, Collider’s Steve Weintraub sat down with the head of Netflix film, Scott Stuber, to discuss the feature future of the streaming giant. Since its conception in the late ‘90s, Netflix has celebrated membership milestones, expanded its reach across the globe, evolved to fit the needs of its subscribers, earned Academy Awards, and so much more.
SCOTT STUBER: Well, the one thing that's interesting is people expect so much because it's such a big company and you forget we're a five-and-a-half-year-old film company. So if you apply us next to other companies in terms of what we're trying to build to, what our success module is, and how we get there, you want to get there.
So, I'm feeling good. I think what's exciting is we have a ton of great filmmakers. We're really pushing to get Kathryn Bigelow's next movie and working with her on a couple of things. She’s one of the greats, and we all need another Kathryn Bigelow movie. We need it so badly. So we're trying.
STUBER: You've got to find the right thing. I think the second one was so good because it was emotional and complex. It kind of reminds me of when I worked on the Bourne movies, right? Tony Gilroy did such a good job on the second one of making it emotional and making that kind of activate around Franka death. So, this one had the same kind of familial background around Chris motivation. Getting Idris into the franchise was an interesting way to kind of evolve it.
STUBER: We've got one that we're working on, so we're gonna get that script relatively soon. The key to that is to try to make it– You know, Rawson did a really good job of kind of misdirecting in that movie, right? So now you've established personality in a heist, so now it's like, “How do we get that plot right? How do we get that storytelling right?” So, you know, I wanna make sure that we're hitting the highest bar possible when we’re making these things.
STUBER: Yeah. Obviously, there's a lot of books. There's one stand-alone that we're working on right now that we're once again trying to get the script right, but I like it very much, and so does the team. So I feel like if we can get that script right there would be a great kind of extension of that franchise.
I have. Thumbs way up. I think every David Fincher release should be a national holiday. So my question is, have you spoken to David about doing another project together?
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