hello everyone welcome to an extra-special like mini episode of the
witching hour we are with director David Yara- oh my god I said it right in the
other one Jared Yarovesky I could say they all
knew it was coming I'm a Shyamalan! They'll never right but it's it's okay I've embraced it
I think part of M Night's mystery is people trying to pronounce
his last name I feel like the only way to do right is to say a really good
spoonerism right now and call you Yavid Darovesky everyone knows I'm
Spoonerism problem sorry alright so what we're gonna do right now you have
myself Perri Nemiroff & Haleigh Foutch here and we want to talk to you about
the ending of your movie so this is your one and only spoiler warning this is
essentially our the ending of Brightburn explained so if you have not seen
the movie this weekend go out you catch it and then come back and have this
conversation with us so yeah you probably don't want to hear anything
else that we say right now fair warning right there the cutoff is happening
right now we are jumping into brightburn spoilers do you want to take it
first well I will say I was very excited by the ending because as we're nearing
the end and like there's two ways that this goes there's one that's alright I
get it and there's one that I'm like yeah they did it you did the thing so
thank you and congratulations was there ever consideration of a
different ending or was that sort of built into why you wanted to do this I
assume you're talking about killing Elizabeth killing Elizabeth and the kid
you know goes on to be a worldwide threat yeah yeah I mean yeah there was
never a version of the movie where yeah he didn't win that's jazz yeah yeah he
always won and and and he always kills her at the end and we like it was just
kind of baked into I think the idea I mean they just you know I like so much
of the fun of this he's being anti superhero and superhero
movies just fill you with so much hope and optimism and and so if this was
going to be the anti superhero movie it would have to crush your hope and and
kick you in the teeth when you didn't expect it so so so yeah III it was just
always that way I guess yes and and something I really liked about it is you
know as much as this is playing on superhero riffs it's also to me felt
very much a slasher inspired film and we're so taught and trained to have this
final girl that we know is going to pull out the stab mm-hmm know and I really
enjoyed that did you ever just for fun think about the aftermath even beyond
what you do in the end credits like what what is he capable of are we talking
about the end of the world based on where we end up yes so the so the thing
is is that right like the moment with Elizabeth was basically always in the
movie but but everything that followed changed you know a thousand different
times like how much do we want to show you know of the the next steps you know
and and would through what lens do we want to learn it you know and so and so
there were all sorts of ways in you know but but but I I think the best way was
to just kind of give give a picture of the of the future and then be a little
more vague I guess did you ever consider just the architecture of not just a
single superhero movie now but cinematic universes that we have and for fun maybe
play with different individuals that he might encounter with similar abilities
well you know I think that everything that we do at the end of the movie is
like really specific and deliberate and I think that like one of my favorite
things about right burn and and what this whole journey has been and one of
the things I think we did like most right along the way was we kind of all
shook hands and told each other to shut the hell up and not tell anyone anything
about the movie and and and we we respected that code
intensely so much so that a couple days after we wrap shooting I got married to
the costume designer and gradually yeah thank you very much and and by the way
don't if you're gonna shoot a movie don't get married four days after you
wrap disastrous mistake but but but but to just illustrate how intensely
secretive we were I was methey people at her wedding and 140 people didn't know
anything about the movie that we had just shot that's a secret if we were and
we kept it so secretive because because like we and we never did that thing
where it's like an announcement comes out like you know James Gunn and some
guy you've never heard of or making a super hero horror movie like there was
never any of that stuff that kind of that people could talk about an argue if
it was gonna be cool or not for a long time and so what I really wanted was to
just drop a trailer in the same way that like Cloverfield just dropped a trailer
and you get the entire concept of what we're doing and we introduced it to you
in a big cinematic way and not in a stupid blurb from people off yell at
each other about on Twitter so so so so that's a long way around to say that if
we were to expand the bright byrne universe in other installments and in
other ways we would probably be doing it the exact same way under total secrecy
and then drop a cinematic trailer at some point that kind of teaches you what
that new direction could be I mean that obviously suggests a supreme amount of
secrecy going on but just from like looking at this film how much of you say
you decided not to take it too far into sort of the apocalyptic vision of the
future how much of that was a business decision as well as a creative one
saying then we have more ground to go if we want to do the future yeah yeah I
mean you know III don't you know I I get the question I didn't really make any
choices like that based on business it was really like what was just of the
most like fun and satisfying way to end the movie you know like what what what
really created the most sense of mystery and Wonder
about what what could be you know and and so and so yeah we really played with
that and and the tone you know the problem is the tone the hearts probably
tone because sometimes it got too funny and it didn't feel like the movie and
sometimes it got too too bleak and it didn't feel like the movie you know that
the movie is really like having fun with with the bad guy you know you know and
so and so it kind of had to live in that the right tone you say bad guy this is
such a goofy question but how early did you guys get Billy Eilish as song
because now she's enormous yeah I heard maybe six months before the world heard
it and and and and I was like what is this song this needs to be in the movie
this is gonna be massive we need it and I think the story is and maybe I'm
totally wrong and if I am I'm sorry Billy
but I what I had heard is that she saw the first trailer when the first trailer
came out and like because she likes horror movies and so and so she kind of
reached out through the the pipelines of people and and and so we got like a
bunch of advances of like her songs and then and then there's the song bad guy
and I was like the hell's this this could be perfect and we heard it and I
was like this has to be in the movie this is like this is not only an amazing
song but it's also like spiritually so connected healy and so and so so that's
what happened yeah it was so it was in the movie for a very long time and now
that is the jam a new album I had obsessed with that song I know and
became a huge hit not my surprise but but but I think the
people involved in the movie were all kind of like oh my god the song got
massive yeah yeah yeah yeah are there any familiar superhero movie themes or
story beats that you wanted to include in the movie and couldn't no not really
no I mean we you know couldn't is a weird word like there's certainly see
is that that I had ideas for that didn't end up in the final version but but it
wasn't because I couldn't it was because it was because I wanted to have
restraint until still tell a good story and not just like not just jam in
superhero beats that fell out of place or something you know like like you know
we played with all sorts of fun scary moments I mean you know I spent a little
time with it with a board like this or something but but it was more like a
push pin board where I'm just right out you know superhero beats and and kind of
brainstorm on how how to subvert it and how to make it scary and how to tell it
through a horror lens and and so and so I think that's part of the process when
you make something as you you start throwing out ideas like this would be
cool this would be cool this would be cool and then you get a couple at what
point do you say wouldn't it be cool if we can get Michael Rooker in this movie
yeah
very early on for me because I had always wanted to work with Michael
Rooker the last time I did he was in a he was in a like disco lion suit for the
Guardians video and I remember he came out in
tights with like lion's mane and like little Lions paws he came out of the
dressing room and I've also did the costumes for that and and and he came
out and I looked at him and I said you know I've always dreamed about working
with you as an actor and and this is exactly how I imagined it would be and
and and then yeah so obviously getting to work with him again was awesome so
like those those post you know post the beginning what you kind of talked about
where you were really figuring out what to do and how much to show how many
various ideas of sort of demonstrating his growing powers did you guys come up
with and reject in favor of what you ultimately landed on a ton a literal ton
like you know we probably wrote 10 scenes there were some there was some
really out there ideas to some things that were really close and
we just you know it you know it just explored all the different ways to end
the movie I mean from what I understand you you know it's my second movie and in
both movies it was sort of like the ending how do we end this
you know what is the where do we end and from what I understand I think that's
pretty common in movies like you know you tell the story but where does it end
ending like it really is a complicated science you know how you make people
feel satisfied stay on tone make them feel like they've seen a complete story
but also maybe want more you know it's it's a it's a it's a needle can you give
me an example of one of the out there ones that you guys altima tucked sure we
talked about we talked about Kaitlyn like like having a like it ends with her
like in a lab like with them like fastening a robot on her broken arm and
her just like pissed off but you know you know I mean I'm telling you we would
sit around and just throw ideas back that was just one that and then I always
liked I always thought was sweet but but yeah I we just kind of bounced around
ideas and for hours and some of them were ridiculous some of the you know so
and some of them were cool like that that's a pretty cool yeah sort of what
you're referring to helping the universe out a little bit I like the sound of
that do you have any burning questions before we wrap this up with one more I I
feel like I got most of mine in there real quick okay just because we're in
spoilers now I want to know what you would say to someone who says I don't
need this done to my Superman like for someone out there who is so and like I'm
not saying this as though it's a bad thing because Superman and the idea of
what Superman stands for is very important to so many people out there so
what would you say to someone who says I don't want to see this version of it
then it's probably not for you you know like if you if you see the trailer and
don't want to see the movie based on the trailer then it's probably not for you I
mean unfortunately I wish I wish that it was maybe the next movie I make will be
for you but no one's making me movie and and and and and I find that if
you see the trailer and you like the trailer you'll probably like the movie
like it you know it's like agree with you know that's really kind of the
dividing line and so yeah if you see the trailer and something about it upsets
you or makes it something you don't want to see don't see it actually a big part
is steam because you really sold what you're delivering their trailers yeah
yeah well as I said as I said on that on the first chapter of because the two
partner was that like I really would like this was a trailer that we were
talking about her early on it was something that I kept saying I thought
about while we were shooting and I really knew what the trailer was and
it's very helpful because I knew what the movie was so I know the promise I'm
making to the audience and I know what I'm gonna deliver to the audience and so
and so you know I think that's important I think a trailer establishes that I had
a conversation early on with the marketing team and the investors and
stuff and what I said to them was that I I'm a big believer that that as a fan
because I grew up as a fan that I didn't ever have an hour and a half long
relationship with a movie I always had a six-month relationship of the movie
where I'd see a trailer and I would start to get excited about it and I'd
see a poster and I get excited you know and I'd started to have thoughts about
what this meant or what that meant and so and so I really wanted on this movie
to curate a kind of unveiling of what the idea was and and what it was and to
go from you know like the the first the first trailer was a bit more mysterious
and the second trailer was like oh no no this is horror you know this is gonna be
scary and then you know like going to we kind of went down the rabbit hole it
started at the lightest version and every week we show a little scarier
version or something so that was kind of all part of a bigger design and so and
so yeah so so I do feel like when people see in the movie that it truly is the
fulfillment of the promise of the trailer at least to the best of my
abilities and so and so yeah so yeah that's how I feel
we've talked about that at length so to have a movie in a marketing team unites
quite like it does here so happy to say that hey man I feel really lucky the the
guys who were in charge of marketing my movie err counter at Sony and an
ignition who's the team over at age collective and and kind of everyone that
was involved did an amazing job like they really did and and they they asked
me questions which like you know I from what I understand that's not common I
think sometimes directors just get stuck with a marketing plan or something but I
was fortunate and and they listened to me at times and and and and asked me
questions at times and it was it was a really great relationship and as guys
did a really good job well that is it we thank you for joining
us for a double dose of the witching hour for fun oh you'll have me back
doors wide open we can't wait to hear about your next project for myself for
Haleigh for David thank you guys so much for watching this video do not forget
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