Writer-director Brian Duffield spoke to io9 about his new made-for-Hulu sci-fi alien invasion movie starring Kaitlyn Dever.
Germain Lussier, io9: So I’m watching your movie last night and after 20 minutes, I was like, “Has anybody spoken in this?” And I don’t think they had. So tell me how the early decision was made to go largely without dialogue, why you made that decision, and what the biggest challenge then became?Yeah, it was something that I kind of discovered too. I didn’t set out to write it that way. I don’t outline when I write, so I’m just kind of free fallin’.
io9: Wow, okay. Because obviously, there’s some dialogue here and there, but by the end, there’s so little of it, it makes what little bit there is, especially towards the end, that much more impactful. So I’m surprised to hear that wasn’t a deliberate choice. Did the script have dialogue in it?It’s exactly what it is in the movie.
There are a lot of no-dialogue sections, but there’s dialogue in the movie. And it just felt to me like if the reason I’m doing this is for this, it’s a bad reason. And if there’s a moment where she really needs to get something off of her chest, like in that moment, she had to do it. And I said the same to Kaitlyn. I was like, “If there’s ever a scene where you feel like you need to talk? Do it.” Like that’s more important. Your character is more important than the device.
And I think it really wrong-foots you in hopefully a fun way where you’re like, “I have no idea [what’s going on]. This is usually where we end things but I’ve never been here in five minutes,” and by the time we get to the end of our first act hopefully people will just have no idea where this movie is going because so much has happened. So it’s like, yeah, we kind of do the glimpse of the alien here, a toe here, a voice here kind of thing. Then we just start showing our boy.
io9: Now, what happens in this movie is a contained story. There’s no need to think about what else is happening in this world. But as a nerd, I do and I think you probably might too. So how much did you think about what else is happening in the world? What else is going on in your
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