Director Fede Alvarez on the Dread of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB
Mike Sprague
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Lisbeth Salander returns to the screen in The Girl in the Spider’s Web starring Claire Foy (Unsane) under the direction of Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe). And today we have word from the horror director on the dread he’s bringing to his first (kinda) non-horror movie.
“I’m on my third movie. That’s the time when, as a director, you look back a little bit at the themes you repeat over and over,” Alvarez told Cinema Blend. “I’ve been the writer on all of my movies. It becomes evident. You go, ‘Well, you kind of have an issue with this or that, because you go back there all of the time.’ I definitely have an issue with guilt. All of my stories are about guilt. And at the same time, I’m obsessed with this idea that, we all have this door. And with this door, there’s the assumption that there’s something horrible beyond that door. We’d rather not go through it. We know it’s there. We look at it all of the time. There’s something dreadful on the other side, and you never know when you are going to have to go there.”
He adds: “So some movies, more optimistic movies, they say if you open that door, it’s not going to be as bad as you think. My movies, on the other hand [laughs], they say what’s on the other side is way worse than you had imagined. But it says that if you go through that, and you face that, then what’s beyond that will always be for a better life. That’s the constant theme of all of my movies, and you have seen that here, as well. It definitely has a tone that is, there’s a little bit of a dread that something bad is coming. In the story, that’s what Lisbeth is going through. But she’s going to go through that door, right? She’s going to face that dread.”
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web is directed by Fede Alvarez from a screenplay written by Steven Knight, Alvarez and Jay Basu. It stars Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Christopher Convery, Synnøve Macody Lund, Vicky Krieps
Scott Rudin, Ole Søndberg, Søren Stærmose, Berna Levin, Amy Pascal, and Elizabeth Cantillon produce. Executive Producers are Eli Bush, Robert J. Dohrmann, Line Winther, Skyum Funch, Johannes Jensen, Anni Faurbye Fernandez, and David Fincher.
The new film hits theaters November 9, 2018.
Synopsis:
Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals, and corrupt government officials.
Image credit: Chris Fischer
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