![]() ![]() We were playing around with the version of Sadie, it felt a bit too modern. ![]() She’s a bit of a go-between, between those two worlds. I wanted to put the audience back in that feeling and I wanted to reframe the movie about being more about the kids, being about these two sisters and specifically Sophie’s character – she’s no longer a kid, but she’s not quite an adult. I started with all of King’s short stories as a kid and I remembered how that story and all those stories made me feel and how dangerous it made my bedroom after dark feel and every single dark corner and closet. ![]() It took place in the world of adults and it was about this disbelieving father and I came on board and I’d read the short story. They came up with this great idea of having that as the inciting incident that basically sets up this new family who are then going to be infected by the evil of this creature. It’s just these two characters having a conversation in a therapy office. ![]() They cracked the code of how to adapt this very contained short story. I came onboard just after “Host.” There was already a script by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods that ended up being… Our movie ended up being very different, but they’ve laid the groundwork. Just as it was being resuscitated is where I jumped onboard. Take me through the development process – it was dead for a minute and then it came back to life. ![]()
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