{"id":349440,"date":"2026-06-12T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349440"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:15:36","slug":"brian-duffield-previews-the-anticipated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/brian-duffield-previews-the-anticipated-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Duffield Previews The Anticipated Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBrian Duffield\u2019s <em>Whalefall<\/em> arrived at April\u2019s CinemaCon with a modicum of buzz in comparison with heavy hitters reminiscent of <em>Avengers: Doomsday <\/em>and <em>Dune: Part Three<\/em>. But all of that modified when the Las Vegas-based convention debuted a show-stopping six-minute sequence by which Austin Abrams\u2019 Jay Gardiner is swallowed alive by a sperm whale. The footage brought the home down, turning twentieth Century\u2019s survival thriller into the largest surprise of your entire event, and forcing film outlets to revise their lists of 2026\u2019s most anticipated movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI loved that nobody knew we existed. When the movies-to-look-forward-to lists got here out [ahead of 2026], we weren&#8217;t on them, and I just liked lurking within the shadowy depths,\u201d Duffield tells <em>The Hollywood Report<\/em> in support of <em>Whalefall<\/em>\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/67ho3OxCmmM?si=FZHFJVmb-dPM1DiZ\">first teaser trailer<\/a>. \u201cWhen CinemaCon got here up, we had already been showing the clip to people for some time. So the studio was like, \u2018We must always just show the clip as an alternative of a trailer and really spook people.\u2019 And it looks as if it did the trick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBased on co-writer Daniel Kraus\u2019 book of the identical name, <em>Whalefall<\/em> sends Jay (Abrams) on a diving expedition to get better his deceased father\u2019s stays (Josh Brolin\u2019s Mitt Gardiner). That\u2019s when he\u2019s consumed by the colossal 60-foot, 45-ton creature and stored in its multi-chambered stomach for eventual digestion. Jay has only one hour of oxygen left to flee, applying the knowledge and skill set his late father passed on to him, while also reconciling their strained relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe highly emotional tale requires Abrams\u2019 Jay to avoid wasting himself from the within a whale, however it was Duffield who had to guard Abrams from himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHonest to God, the one problem with Austin is that he&#8217;ll throw himself <em>too<\/em> hard into things. It was never like, \u2018Austin, you\u2019ve got to do that stunt.\u2019 It was often like, \u2018Austin, you can not do that since you\u2019ll die,\u2019\u201d Duffield shares in admiration of his lead actor. \u201cThe one arguments I ever really had with the guy were about how he\u2019s just so committed and so determined to do the whole lot as viscerally real as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBeyond the CinemaCon response, the boldness that twentieth has in Duffield\u2019s third directorial effort is already palpable. <em>Whalefall <\/em>marks the primary time that the writer-director has received the complete weight of a serious studio, and it\u2019s an extended time coming for those of us who\u2019ve been tracking his screenwriting work for the reason that 2010s, in addition to his critically acclaimed outings as a director, <em>Spontaneous<\/em> (2020) and <em>No One Will Save You<\/em> (2023). The previous received essentially the most limited of limited releases through the pandemic, and the latter, while all the time a streaming play, had to advertise itself amid 2023\u2019s labor strikes without the participation of its star-producer, Kaitlyn Dever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that <em>Whalefall<\/em> is coming out theatrically. I do know I\u2019ve never seen a movie like <em>Whalefall<\/em> before, not only due to the spectacle and the claustrophobia, however the emotion and audaciousness of what Daniel Kraus wrote,\u201d Duffield says. \u201cSo I hope audiences will go on this very insane, exciting experience with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBelow, during a conversation with <em>THR<\/em>, Duffield provides an summary of what else audiences can expect from a movie set contained in the innards of a whale, something the <em>Whalefall<\/em> crew called \u201cthe toughest thing they\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whalefall | Official Teaser | In Theaters October 16\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/67ho3OxCmmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Everyone has now seen a minimum of a number of the footage that received rave reviews at CinemaCon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s a really condensed version. It\u2019s a 3rd of it. CinemaCon had the complete scene, and that is the CliffsNotes version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Did that warm reception provide you and your team a serious shot within the arm during post?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, but I loved that nobody knew we existed. It was very nice. When the movies-to-look-forward-to lists got here out, we weren&#8217;t on them, and I just liked lurking within the shadowy depths, because it were. Then, when CinemaCon got here up, we had already been showing the complete six- or seven-minute clip to people for some time. So the studio was like, \u201cWe must always just show the clip as an alternative of a trailer and really spook people.\u201d And it looks as if it did the trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWithin the longer version, the primary minute or so is Austin\u2019s character [Jay Gardiner] swimming around peacefully after which, from afar, he sees the whale that keeps getting closer to him. It\u2019s the best thing he\u2019s ever seen. One among our little jokes was like, \u201cWhat if the Brachiosaurus from <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> just began stampeding towards you?\u201d It begins as essentially the most awesome, beautiful thing you\u2019ve ever seen, after which it just changes direction in a short time. So the response out of Vegas was really cool, and I hope that folks will feel similarly after they see the movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams as Jay Gardiner in twentieth Century Studios and Brian Duffield\u2019s <em>Whalefall<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">twentieth Century Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Granted, it\u2019s just a primary teaser, but I wish more movies would adopt this marketing approach of just dropping us into one bravura sequence.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, Disney was excited by the concept. That scene happens throughout the first quarter-hour of our movie. All but one or two shots within the trailer are from the primary quarter-hour. When a man gets eaten by an animal, that\u2019s often the top of the movie, but we\u2019re saying that there\u2019s a minimum of an hour more to go. And that\u2019s not the one set piece by any means. So hopefully people register that this is absolutely the opening of our story in quite a lot of ways. There\u2019s quite quite a lot of movie to come back after Jay goes down the chute. [<em>Writer\u2019s Note: Duffield indicated on social media that the film has a 98-minute runtime<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I can draw a line between <\/strong><strong><em>Whalefall <\/em><\/strong><strong>and an older script of yours, so that you clearly have an interest in underwater terror. But coming out of <\/strong><strong><em>No One Will Save You<\/em><\/strong><strong>, how did you land on this adaptation as your next film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI used to be in post on <em>No One Will Save You<\/em> once I came upon in regards to the book, after which I just became ravenous. I kept bothering Brian Davids Daniel Kraus to let me read it once he finished it. We didn\u2019t know one another on the time either. I literally just slid into his DMs. Then, once I read it \u2014\u00a0beyond the logline and the technical challenge being really appealing to me \u2014\u00a0the emotion and the characters just really spoke to me. It wasn\u2019t what I used to be trying to do next, but as soon as I read it, I used to be like, <em>I&#8217;d as well quit the business if this isn\u2019t what\u2019s next because nothing else will matter<\/em>. So I\u2019m so lucky that Daniel and I got to collaborate on this movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Should you\u2019re going to make a movie involving whales and water, twentieth Century is the place to do it. Did anyone try to attach you with James Cameron?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo, we&#8217;ve not spoken yet. I\u2019d be scared shitless. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) He was coping with the very best whale of all of them, Payakan, and the studio knows I\u2019m an enormous Payakan fan boy. So I feel he was busy jamming on <em>Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/em> as we were doing this. But I hope he sees <em>Whalefall<\/em> and likes it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>You most likely split the shoot between a water tank and an actual body of water. At any time when filmmakers approach Steven Spielberg for advice about shooting on real bodies of water, his advice is \u201cdon\u2019t.\u201d Do you now understand why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat\u2019s funny is that shooting on boats, on water, was by far the simplest a part of our shoot. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) We partially shot in L.A., so we had the very best crews on the earth. None of our boat stuff is absolutely that elaborate, however it\u2019s all on the water. We didn\u2019t shoot anything dry for wet. But then the whole lot contained in the whale is insane. Every crew member said that it was the toughest thing they\u2019ve ever done. I\u2019m not saying this was harder than <em>Jaws<\/em> by any means, but shooting within a whale is its own set of very unique and weird challenges. I won\u2019t do it again, but I\u2019m glad I did it once.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHF-TP-086899_V3-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Josh Brolin as Mitt Gardiner in twentieth Century Studios and Brian Duffield\u2019s <em>Whalefall<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">twentieth Century Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Josh Brolin went from throwing Austin Abrams around like a ragdoll in <\/strong><strong>Zach Cregger<\/strong><strong>\u2019s <em>Weapons<\/em> to embracing him as his son in <em>Whalefall<\/em>. You solid them before you knew their dynamic in <em>Weapons<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I solid them before there was a trailer or anything. Knowing <em>Weapons<\/em> was an ensemble piece, there have been quite a lot of questions: <em>Have they got scenes together? Are they father and son?<\/em> So I called Zach Cregger about it, and while he didn\u2019t need to spoil anything, he did tell me, \u201cThere\u2019s a scene or two of Austin and Josh together, but not as father and son.\u201d In order that was enough for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Weapons<\/em> was so huge that once we tested <em>Whalefall <\/em>a bunch of times, I kept waiting for people to bring up <em>Weapons<\/em>, however it never got here up. It\u2019s a testament to how talented Austin and Josh are. When you\u2019re within the movie, you actually don\u2019t take into consideration them as other people. You only take into consideration them because the characters that you simply\u2019re seeing. All the things about their characters on this movie is so different from Weapons. It has less to do with anything cool that I did and more to do with how talented those guys are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>And now a sperm whale is throwing Austin around like a ragdoll. It looks like he went through <\/strong><strong><em>quite a bit<\/em><\/strong><strong> to shoot this movie.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Yeah, he did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Was he a great sport throughout all of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOh my God, yeah. Honest to God, the one problem with Austin is that he&#8217;ll throw himself <em>too<\/em> hard into things. It was never like, \u201cAustin, you\u2019ve got to do that stunt.\u201d It was often like, \u201cAustin, you can not do that since you\u2019ll die.\u201d So the one arguments I ever really had with the guy were about how he\u2019s just so committed and so determined to do the whole lot as viscerally real as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEvery shot within the trailer is Austin. When people see the complete six-minute set piece within the movie, every shot is Austin. Contained in the whale, every shot is Austin. There\u2019s also some great stitching with stunt performers and CG to provide those people their due, but 95 percent-plus of the movie\u2019s stunts are Austin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs you may see within the trailer, the within the whale is a really tight space, and there\u2019s not quite a lot of room to cover Austin. Even when he&#8217;s sitting completely still contained in the whale\u2019s stomach, it\u2019s a stunt. It\u2019s actually pretty dangerous because he\u2019s on a gimbal, and the stomach has pistons and manipulators. So the whole lot in the complete movie was dangerous, but Austin never got hurt. It\u2019s an actual testament to Shauna Duggins, our stunt coordinator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAustin goes one million percent in any respect times, even through the ADR sessions we did a few weeks ago. He ran across the room, screaming and doing the whole lot he could to make it nearly as good as possible. He\u2019d often need to go again because he thinks he can do the whole lot higher. He\u2019s just such a beast. It\u2019s amazing what he can do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHF-TP-089951-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams as Jay Gardiner in twentieth Century Studios and Brian Duffield\u2019s <em>Whalefall<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">twentieth Century Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>The science behind the premise is comparatively accurate. I heard Brolin say that Kraus researched all of it an excellent deal. Apparently, sperm whales don\u2019t chew their food. They swallow their prey before it\u2019s stored of their multi-chambered stomach for eventual digestion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, you may get swallowed by a sperm whale. It\u2019s funny, I feel the things that may get dinged for not being accurate are literally accurate. In fact, there are liberties that we needed to take for movie-making purposes, but we actually tried to be as accurate as possible by working with quite a lot of whale experts. Nobody\u2019s ever done an endoscopy of a sperm whale for obvious [size and logistical] reasons, but based on the whole lot we\u2019ve learned, there\u2019s quite a lot of science within the movie. A variety of it&#8217;s unspoken science, too. Jay shouldn&#8217;t be narrating like he does within the novel. So hopefully the audience infers certain things, and each every so often, Austin, as Jay, will chime in with a bit of little bit of dialogue. But we did our greatest to make it as scientifically accurate as possible, and I\u2019m so sorry for those who are going to be scared about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Is <\/strong><strong><em>Whalefall<\/em><\/strong><strong> largely a dual narrative that flashes between the innards of a whale and the father-son relationship?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, it evolves throughout the movie. It starts off on a dual track and merges right into a singular track. It\u2019s as real a life-or-death situation as you could possibly possibly be in. There\u2019s also a <em>Green Mile<\/em> element to it by way of Jay knowing how much time he has to get out of the whale in a really literal, physical way. Austin and I talked quite a bit about how there\u2019s nobody to impress or to cover your feelings from whenever you\u2019re contained in the stomach of a whale. You possibly can feel whatever you\u2019re feeling. Nobody can hear you, and nobody can see you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJay is on this very physical moment of, <em>How do I live?<\/em> But there\u2019s also this huge emotional wound together with his deceased father. He\u2019s type of living on his own deathbed once he gets swallowed by the whale. And like all deathbed, you\u2019re fascinated about your life \u2014 what you would like you could possibly have done in another way and the way you would like you could possibly have resolved certain things. So those two are interlaced until they very literally change into one element within the back half of the movie. I\u2019m really excited for audiences to see their emotional journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut the majority of Josh\u2019s work within the movie are these memories that Jay has of his dad and their very difficult relationship. The movie is about find out how to make peace with those who you\u2019ve lost, they usually do a very beautiful job of that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC01434.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Director Brian Duffield and star Austin Abrams attended a trailer preview for his or her recent movie <em>Whalefall<\/em> at Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria on June 8. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy twentieth Century Studios<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Whalefall<\/em><\/strong><strong> is your first <\/strong><strong><em>proper<\/em><\/strong><strong> theatrical release as a director.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, it\u2019s the primary meaty one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>It\u2019s long overdue for anyone who knows your prior directorial work, <\/strong><strong><em>Spontaneous <\/em><\/strong><strong>and <\/strong><strong><em>No One Will Save You<\/em><\/strong><strong>. The previous handled a regime change and the pandemic, while the latter faced strike-related challenges. Even a number of the produced movies you\u2019ve written have endured quite a lot of highly unusual circumstances. Thus, how would you describe the sensation of not having to fret about any of those aspects again?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn the primary movie I wrote that got made [<em>Jane Got a Gun<\/em>], the director didn\u2019t show up on set the primary day of shooting, so that basically prepared me that this profession is sort of a whale. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) It\u2019s a living, respiratory organism that has a mind of its own, and you actually can\u2019t control it. I can\u2019t control COVID or any of those other things which have happened to my profession. <em>Spontaneous<\/em> was received very warmly because COVID inadvertently turned that movie right into a movie about COVID. Nothing could have prepared me for that, but these are the things that occur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>No One Will Save You<\/em> was all the time for streaming, and I never once tried to make it theatrical. I never saw it as a punishment either. I used to be like, <em>They\u2019re letting me make a silent weirdo alien movie with a very strange <\/em><em>ending<\/em><em>. Hell yeah, great<\/em>.\u00a0 At the top of the day, it\u2019s in regards to the stories we tell, and I\u2019m just very lucky that I get to inform stories. So I\u2019m thrilled that <em>Whalefall<\/em> is coming out theatrically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t[20th Century president of production] Steve Asbell and I are close pals now after <em>No Will Save You<\/em> and <em>Whalefall<\/em>, and we all the time discuss what we wish to see in a movie show experience. And also you\u2019re seeing movies pop off this yr due to that similar mindset. I do know I\u2019ve never seen a movie like <em>Whalefall<\/em> before, not only due to the spectacle and the claustrophobia, however the emotion and audaciousness of what Daniel Kraus wrote. So I hope audiences will go on this very insane, exciting experience with us, and I\u2019m just pleased they let me make movies, man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<br \/>Whalefall <em>opens this October in movie theaters nationwide.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Duffield\u2019s Whalefall arrived at April\u2019s CinemaCon with a modicum of buzz in comparison with heavy hitters reminiscent of Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three. But all of that modified when the Las Vegas-based convention debuted a show-stopping six-minute sequence by which Austin Abrams\u2019 Jay Gardiner is swallowed alive by a sperm whale. 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