When Christopher Landon was announced as taking over the director's reign of the Franchise "Crick" by Matt Bethinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gilpin of radio silence, he felt the perfect transfer to the torch of a person who always had to head to the spirit. "Some people don't know this, but one of the reasons I was so excited to do" Scream 7 "was because I was an intern in the company that made the original" scream "," he told me during an interview with Magazine Fangoria.

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He was in 1995, and Landon was tasked with reading a specific horror script from the unknown writer at AT-time named Kevin Williamson. He needed only a few pages of reading before he knew he had to persuade his supervisor to buy it. To become the director of "Crick 7" was the kind of full moment in Hollywood's career, so much so that the name of the movie was "full circle". Unfortunately, after Spyglass Media Group's decision to sack Melissa Barera of Scream 7, after she expressed support for Palestine online (The company's official statement It was that her inscriptions "crossed the line in anti -Semitism" - their words, not ours), Landon was targeted by angry fans who believed he had to do with the decision as a director, going so far as to threaten his children's lives.

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His moment of the whole circle would never be realized, like He voluntarily came out of the project. Landon was lucky enough to meet Wes Craven and visited the set of the original "scream", which made him move away from "Creek 7" so much harder. Fortunately, leaving the project opened it to direct the scenario of Illilian Jaceces and Chris Roach for "Drop" (Check out our review here) "And after reading it, Landon realized that he could still pay tribute to the horror legend in a different way.

"Drop" is on Chris Landon, which was Wes Craven's "red eye".

"Red Eye" is, for my money, Underrated master. In actress Rachel Mac Adams and Silian Murphy, the film is a high-intensity thriller set on a red-eye flight, with a hotel manager revealing the man sitting next to her is an assassin who works with an accomplice to kill her father if she does not use her hotel ties to help him. It is an incredibly intimate horror story, and the one that gives McAdams and Murphy to really show off their acting chops. It is a departure from Slashers Craven was mostly known for "nightmare on Elm Street" and "screaming", while it is tonight from other horror works like "people under the stairs" and "the last house on the left".

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There is maturity in adult nails that are more than the race against the clock than a person who runs for their life from a fever killer, the one who is not always considered when a person listens to the words "horror film". But that is exactly what is a "red eye" and had the same tone that Christopher Landon wanted to bring to "descend". As he explains, "it was just weird, Kismet-y where I was like," No, I didn't have to do that other thing, but I still had to tell Wes that I love it in a different way ", and it was really significant and powerful for me." It takes place at the only location of the prevalence, an stunning restaurant (designed and created specifically for the film), the parallels to the "red eye" are unstable.

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The biggest difference, of course, is that the "drop" of leading lady Megan Jahi does not bother her dinner date, but by unprecedented force by sending her threatening memes that she should be silent on the man sitting from her on the table.

There is a quote that is often attributed to Pablo Picasso (and then in the center of episode 5 of the "Studio", it is interesting) that says "good artists copy, great artists steal", which means that good artists are capable of imitating or replication, but the sign of a great artist can be stolen. Therefore, the movie like "War of Starvalas" works so well despite being a joining the films Akira Kurosawa and "Josephosef Campbell's Hero" with thousands of people ". Therefore," Five Sounds "by Beach Boys is one of the greatest albums of all time, because Brian's" -Del. This way of thinking is obvious in all the works of Christopher Landon, and his films are better for that.

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There are obvious pulls, such as his body exchange makeup (co-written with Michael Kennedy) "Fraki" is essentially "Friday". Even looking at his horror film "Netflix Portal" "We Have a Ghost", it has touches on the most famous Amblin day in the 1980s in the 1980s. Until he directed the film, Landon co-wrote the Disteria script in 2007, another Hitchcock thriller, which is essentially a "rear window" from the point of view of the troubled teenager. This is to say, "drop" to feel like spiritual brothers and sisters of "red eye" is not common for Landon, but that is another example of why he is not just a good artist, he is great.

"Drop" is currently playing in theaters everywhere.

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