![]() What’s the first step in taking a short and turning it into a feature length movie? So I returned to Lawrence and said, “Why don’t I join this as a producer and write the script on spec? Then once we get it to a place where we’re all mutually happy, we take it to a studio and tell them that this is the movie we want to make.”Īnd once James Wan stepped on we felt like we had our dream team.Īlexander DiPersia as Bret in Lights Out. I’d been doing some larger budget projects and I’d stayed away from horror after working on a science fiction project – like the one I worked on with Denis Villenueve that’s coming out this September – but I couldn’t shake it. I said that I’d love to do something like this, but my reps saw it as a step back. ![]() He had a lot of really smart things to say about how he saw a feature film version of it and I got very excited because it wasn’t just the conceptual scare that is the gimmick in the short film, there was a lot more to it. The other producer Lawrence Gray said that he’d gotten the rights to the short film and that he’d spoken to the director David Sanberg. If I ever saw that they were off I would turn them back on. Actually, it was more of the fact that I would leave the lights on. The movie did a great job of capitalizing on people’s fear of the dark and wondering if someone is “in there.” Did your wife ever find you turning lights on and off and you just explaining it was “research?“ Gabriel Bateman as Martin and Teresa Palmer as Rebecca in Lights Out. ![]()
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