Wes Anderson wants to make a scary movie and might do a Christmas one too
The famously eccentric director names his favourite film as horror classic Rosemary's Baby
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Your support makes all the difference.Wes Anderson might be known for his unique, colourful comedies but the director recently hinted that he fancies trying his hand at a scary movie.
The Oscar nominee behind The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom names Roman Polanski’s creepy Rosemary’s Baby as his favourite film and has always been fascinated by the horror genre.
“I have thought of doing a horror movie,” he told author Donna Tartt at the Rome Film Festival, adding that the idea of more confined limitations intrigues him.
“When you make a horror or a thriller you say: ‘You’re supposed to be scared here. You’re supposed to be relieved here. Here, we’re explaining something so you know the next part so you’ll be more scared then’.
“I like the idea of the requirements and the obligations of working in a genre like that.”
The idea of an Anderson horror has already been mocked on Saturday Night Live, during a skit about an imagined film called The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders.
But the eccentric 46-year-old isn’t even stopping at horror, revealing that he might also consider dipping into the festive world of Christmas films, if only to scrape a bit more cash together.
“If you make a great Christmas song or movie or book, as Dickens showed us, you can make a huge fortune, because they come back every year,” he said. “As long as you have a piece of the action, then it’s perennial.”
Of course, before any of this actually happens, fans already have the stop-motion animated movie about dogs that regular on-screen dog abuser Anderson promised us earlier this month to look forward to…
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