Writer-director partners Scott Beck and Bryan Woods dive into the biggest spoilers of their new Hugh Grant thriller.
, putting a pair of Mormon missionaries on a journey to test their faiths is both fascinating and effed up. It almost demands a deeper discussion of what happened and how the film got there. We’re happy to oblige., Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. You can click here to read about their development of the film, its influences, and what it’s like seeing their franchisespoilers. We talk about how and when they came up with several elements of the ending.
We’re doing some interesting things in this movie, and it’s going to be really fun for us to see how these individual things hit audiences. We literally cannot wait. We’re so excited. We’ve already gotten a taste of it a little bit with premieres, but we’re using this tool of anti-climax. This tool of, you know, Reed’s drum-rolling this big reveal.
io9: Oh that’s so cool. Now, obviously you can go on the internet or anywhere and find a lot of things making fun of Mormons, but I think your movie is pretty respectful towards Mormons. As a musical fan though, I was happy you dropped a little joke in there towards the beginning. Are you guys just fans? Was there any thought behind it? Tell me how that got in there.Honestly, you know what? It’s more organic than that. It’s from us knowing Mormons and Mormon missionaries.
io9: Yeah, that was it was fantastic. I loved it. I’m also curious, how much backstory did you come up with for Mr. Reed? Like in your mind, has he done this before? Tell me a little bit about that, and also if that even matters.Well, it doesn’t necessarily matter to the full audience experience of watching the movie, but it matters to us as filmmakers and it certainly matters to Hugh Grant, who wrote, frankly, an autobiography of Reed. I mean, we talked about a lot about the broad strokes.
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