Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) takes over the directorial reins of the Insidious franchise with the latest installment, Insidious: The Last Key, which is now playing. Robitel recently sat down for a one-on-one interview with IGN about making the film.
Be advised the following chat does involve SPOILERS for Insidious: The Last Key!
IGN: I want to know about how this came your way. Was this all set to go, Leigh
had a screenplay and was looking for a director? Or did you pitch it?
Adam Robitel: I knew
James Wan socially, through
Lin Shaye actually. We had been to a bunch of different events and parties and James was really, really supportive of my first film and gave me a lot of advice. And I had known Lin, had been in a couple of horror films as an actor with Lin. So there was that, and James really responded to my first film and was very sweet about it in the press and very supportive. So when Leigh decided he was not going to director Chapter 4, my name was on a shortlist, so naturally I jumped at the opportunity and really went in super prepared. I had a bunch of multi visual presentations and animated storyboards. I had read an earlier draft and went in with an idea for an entity, because a lot of the first draft was this idea of… there are spoilers, is that okay?
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Be advised the following chat does involve SPOILERS for Insidious: The Last Key!
IGN: I want to know about how this came your way. Was this all set to go, Leigh
had a screenplay and was looking for a director? Or did you pitch it?
Adam Robitel: I knew
James Wan socially, through
Lin Shaye actually. We had been to a bunch of different events and parties and James was really, really supportive of my first film and gave me a lot of advice. And I had known Lin, had been in a couple of horror films as an actor with Lin. So there was that, and James really responded to my first film and was very sweet about it in the press and very supportive. So when Leigh decided he was not going to director Chapter 4, my name was on a shortlist, so naturally I jumped at the opportunity and really went in super prepared. I had a bunch of multi visual presentations and animated storyboards. I had read an earlier draft and went in with an idea for an entity, because a lot of the first draft was this idea of… there are spoilers, is that okay?
Continue reading…
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