Duo behind 'X,' 'Pearl' and 'MaXXXine' open up about Hollywood, horror movies, recreating the sleazy 1980s, and their amazing three-film collaboration.
time in 1970s Texas, a group of filmmakers traveled to a remote farmhouse to shoot what they hoped would be theof porno flicks. Only one of them would leave that quaint rural residence alive. Cut to: that same “Final Girl” close to a decade later, when she has not only endured another round of related homicides but has been christened Hollywood’s Next Big Thing.
I was waiting for something like that to come along. I was being patient; I really do believe that things happen when they’re supposed to happen. And then this script came along, and it was scary. Not just in terms of the story — there were things about it that were really intimidating. But the fact that Ti was making it and A24 was behind it, I felt fully supported, I didn’t feel that anything was going to be done in a gratuitous way. I knew I was in good hands.
So off to New Zealand we went, with a raised eyebrow from A24, and two weeks in quarantine to figure out how to not let them change their mind. “I almost got them on the hook for this. They’re almost crazy enough to make both movies.” So yes, I pitched them all three — it was very much, “We could just keep doing it!” And they were like, “Well, we love the ‘80s movie idea… but why don’t we see howdoes first? And then you know, if that works, we’ll go make the ’80s one.
I also think that what you’re saying comes up quite a bit sometimes with Elizabeth ’s character, because she’s playing a director and you see how she functions in the movie. But even when I was writing her part, I was always just trying to write someone who’s trying to do something rather than have her be some sort of symbol of everything that’s wrong in the industry and society.
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