How 'Stillwater' Keeps You Riveted and How 'Let Us In' Found an ‘IP’ Loophole
Learn from Oscar-Winning filmmaker Tom McCarthy and then writer/director of 'Let Us in' Craig Moss
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Show Notes
The new movie 'Stillwater' is a tour-de-force and we are joined by writer/director Tom McCarthy as well as his co-writers. Later on, we also talk to the writer/director of 'Let Us In', Craig Moss.
In this episode, we talk about...
- How the team for Stillwater decided which elements of the plot to reveal to the audience and when to create an aura of mystery and sustain interest.
- The profound and timely themes that Stillwater’s plot explores, and whether the themes or the plot came first when developing the script.
- How the team developed characters for the script, and how those conversations informed casting.
- How Craig Moss found a bit of a loophole in intellectual property when he created Let Us In by tapping into urban legends.
- Moss’s early influences and how he got started in film.
- What it was like for Moss to make the jump from producing his own short films to directing a feature.
- Moss’s experience creating various parody films.
- How Moss and his partner developed Let Us In from the legend of the black-eyed children and other influences for the film, like The Goonies, ET, and Stranger Things.
- What it was like for Moss to work with his daughter as the lead actor on the film.
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