Hugh Grant stars along with Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher in the latest film from the creators of A Quiet Place.
as templates for a conversation about religion,” Woods told io9. “There’s a lot of ‘religious horror.’ I put it in quotes because there’s a lot of Catholic horror that uses Catholicism as justification for some kind of supernatural threat in a movie. There’s a lot of those movies, but very rare is the movie likeChloe East} in his house and asks them to play a game.
And then seeing the other side of the spectrum in that movie of Jake Busey’s character, kind of this fundamentalist point of view. Then all of a sudden, like discovering “Oh, I have a friend who has a family member that was in the Jonestown Massacre.
io9: Thank you. Thank you. But to that point, it’s one thing to say that, right? “We’re gonna write this movie about religion.” Actually doing it seems like a whole other thing. Just a massive, overwhelming, and impossible amount of research. So how did you approach gathering information and different points of view for the film?Yeah, I mean, the interest of all things: religious or cult or otherwise, that feeds into it.
io9: I agree with that. But I’m curious how that impacts the process. Do you guys have debates amongst yourselves when you’re writing something like this as you conjure up each side? Because, yes, you are in the middle but you still have to write both sides.Yeah, that’s something I can’t say we’ve quite reflected on because I feel like Bryan and I have known each other since we were 11 years old. And so, by virtue of that, so much of our outlook on life is in step with each other.
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