What was it like building the rest of this cast?Īllisyn Snyder: My gosh, it was really a dream come true, because these were our best friends and our co-workers, people that we've grown up with in the industry, and to be able to reach out to them with a script that was so personal to us, and that they also resonated with as well, and just find a new way to come back and work together as a group was just so fun. Now, I love the cast that you’ve built around Matthew Scott, I loved seeing Alyson Stoner, I was a fan of theirs in Suite Life of Zack and Cody, I almost didn’t recognize them at first, but then I thought it was really cool to see them in the cast list. Well the work shows, it’s a very impressive looking film with that amount of time spent on it. Now, did you find that to be a more challenging method of production given that, in your past, you've done a lot of shorts that are maybe more traditional shooting? We had all the pieces in place for the FaceTimes with the actors and the Zoom calls, but we had a lot of malleability, actually, with the script in the post-production phase, because of how much of it took place on screens. That was something where it wasn't until the post-production phase that we really had to worldbuild the online side of things. But the screenlife element was something that, in the script, it would just say, "Texts go by saying things like this and that," and it wasn't always super detailed, particularly with things like live feeds, where there's a lot of comments rolling by. It sort of feels like he just latches on to an idea, and the whole thing manifests around that. I think my biggest contributions were just sort of taking Matthew Scott's material and just deepening it of saying, "Okay, let's use this as the fun surface layer, and then talk about what the audience isn't seeing and what this guy's backstory is."Īllisyn Snyder: Yeah, I mean, Matthew Scott writes very fast, so it's hard to remember exactly the order of how things came together. And the actor who plays our Bucky is Grant Jordan, and he was just so much fun to work with. We had really a lot of fun developing the villain character, I think that was my favorite part of really digging into Bucky, this little farm boy that he played on television that is coming back to haunt him. But we all contributed to the classic beats and horror moments. So, I wanted to make sure that it was still Matthew Scott's words and his story that he wanted to tell. It was still always Matthew Scott's words, he has a very iconic way of speaking, it reminds a lot of people of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, how there's sort of like a world lingo. We would all read it and obviously give notes and talk about it. So, Matthew Scott is definitely the writer on it, he wrote it, he would send it over to myself, and Dylan, and our producer, Chaz. Now, you mentioned that he wrote it, but I'm curious how much input you actually had into the story and the script, given you had, like you just said, a shared experience with him of growing up as a child actor and having those kinds of fans?Īllisyn Snyder: Yeah, absolutely. This film is all about watching somebody get stalked both in person and online, and I think that was something that we were the perfect people to tell that story. I was like, "You gotta write a feature now!" So, he was able to, unfortunately, dig from personal experience that I also related to, as well, of just growing up in the industry, having those parasocial relationships. I kept begging him, "Please write something for me to direct," and he wrote a short film called Don't Turn Off The Ghost Light that we shot together during quarantine, and it was just so much fun, it went so well. We both just love spooky things, and we love comedy, and I love his annual play Spook Night, it's one of the funniest things I've ever attended. First of all, Matthew Scott was immediately one of my best friends as soon as I met him on So Random!, I had never met anybody who loved to laugh and scream as much as me. I know you and Matthew Scott obviously go back to So Random!, but when did he first approach you with this, and what about it made you want to make your feature debut with this?Īllisyn Snyder: Well, thank you so much for the kind words. Screen Rant: I've been a big fan of your work since A.P.
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