No one in Hollywood wanted to make Barbarian, but that didn’t discourage writer/director Zach Cregger.
Writer and director Zach Cregger believed that Barbarian was a movie that was impossible to make.
Cregger told Vulture that he made a spreadsheet of every production company that made a horror movie in the last 15 years, sent Barbarian to all of them, and “every one of them said no.”
“They didn’t like that the movie resets on page 50. They didn’t like that there’s a character who’s part of Hollywood. And they said nobody wants to follow a rapist for 30 pages,” Cregger said of this wild yet fun ride of a movie.
The film follows Tess (Georgina Campbell), a woman who is uneasily staying with a stranger (Bill Skarsgård) in an accidentally double-booked Airbnb owned by a former actor (Justine Long) who is facing a #MeToo scandal. While the film follows many conventional horror tropes, the film takes a sharp turn 40 minutes in.
The nonconforming script structure is part of why the film took so long to make.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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