![]() And I think that’s to the benefit of the fans. Now I feel like maybe the finest storytelling is being done in 10 hours. When I was a kid, it felt like the gold standard was a two-hour movie. It’s a wonderful time to be watching television. “But I love what’s happening with The Crown. I still love the movies, and I can’t wait to go see Star Wars in a movie theater,” he added. “I just think it’s a really good time to be a writer or a director or a producer or actor. The Babysitter is his first project with Netflix. He’s also continued directing films, like We Are Marshall (2006), Terminator Salvation (2009) and 3 Days to Kill (2014). That led to opportunities in television to produce shows like The O.C., Supernatural (now on its 13th season) and Chuck. In 2000, though, he got a shot at directing Charlie’s Angels, which went on to earn more than $250 million worldwide. McG took an unusual path to movie director, first producing the band Sugar Ray and directing music videos and commercials. Cole feels like one of those characters to me.” “I mean I really I like those kids in Stand by Me and Stranger Things. “Having some irrational fears and not being the most popular kid in town and having to find my way in the world with my own peculiar interests-that was the component of Cole that I connected with,” he says. While McG might not have had a crush on his babysitter as a kid, he could certainly identify with Cole. It just was planned like a movie in my head, which is always a good sign.” “The guy is an incredibly original, new, fresh voice,” McG says, “and I just responded to the way that he crafted these characters and told the story on the page. …I was raised on those films and, you know, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Risky Business.”īrian Duffield’s script for The Babysitter had floated around Hollywood, landing on the Black List of best unproduced scripts until McG’s studio, Wonderland Sound and Vision, purchased it in 2014. “So the whole picture is made to feel like a John Hughes picture, or a bit of a Home Alone remix in particular. “The John Hughes films are a huge influence on me,” McG says. Director McG (born Joseph McGinty Nichol) even gives an overt little nod to the Macaulay Culkin character as our protagonist Cole (Judah Lewis), an awkward and innocent boy on the precipice of adolescence, realizes the trouble he’s in. There’s a moment in The Babysitter, the new horror-comedy film from Netflix, when the lighthearted coming-of-age story shifts into a sort of Home Alone meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre combination.
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