'Theater Camp' marks a big acquisition out of Sundance with worldwide rights going to Searchlight Pictures!
“You can't really make fun of something without it coming off as mean unless, deep down, you truly love it, and I think that really comes across.” That’s how Jimmy Tatro described Theater Camp during our Sundance 2023 interview, and that description is spot-on.
Also, be sure to keep an eye out for the film. Searchlight Pictures snagged the worldwide distribution rights to Theater Camp at the festival! MOLLY GORDON: I think a big piece of advice that was given to us and that kept happening was that mistakes are gonna happen all the time, everything’s gonna fall apart, you're gonna lose your financing. You’re just gonna have to reinvent, reinvent, reinvent and every obstacle is an opportunity for a new idea. A movie is made up of your compromises and your mistakes, and they end up being beautiful, and to not freak out about those things.
BEN PLATT: Molly and I, we get to do a lot of our stuff together in the film and we spent a lot of time, the four of us, writing a very detailed scriptment for the movie. It was largely written, but a lot of room for improvisation.
GALVIN: Purely content-wise, if you look at our first draft, there were probably like seven additional characters that were there that got cut. We had a whole other framing device for the film for a sort of window in. But that's the beauty of it, you know? It was this five-year process of us as a foursome just going over to Ben’s house and eating salad …GALVIN: [Laughs] And only salad.
Molly, it's really special and unusual to be able to make connections at such a young age and maintain them. What’s the secret sauce? There are so many people out there who go to film school, who go to theater camp and do these programs and then say goodbye to the people they meet and there's no guarantee that you'll see even a single one of them later on in life.
HARRISON: Yeah, just go as hard as you can right out of the gate. I think improv is a good tool, a good muscle to work even if you don't feel good at it. I think if you're acting, it's a good thing to pursue for at least a little bit until you humiliate yourself, and then you should quit and then go into underwater welding, which is what I'm doing right now.
I wanted to go back to what you were saying about this movie being filled with things that you all find funny. What is it like working with material like that, but knowing that it's accessible to the widest possible audience?
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