Director Christopher Landon Q & A at Drop (2025) Premiere - Overlook Film Festival 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Director Christopher Landon Q & A at Drop (2025) Premiere - Overlook Film Festival 2025

Christopher Landon loves a challenge. The writer/director/producer multi-hyphenate has helped to define the modern era of horror films. From shaping franchises like Paranormal Activity and writing films like Disturbia which brought the Hitchcockian thriller to modern audiences in serving his take on Rear Window, to redefining horror comedy with some of the past decades' best films in the genre like Happy Death Day, Freaky, and producing and writing one of this year's best genre mash-ups, Heart Eyes, Landon could easily hang his hat on genre work moving forward. But Landon's work on Disturbia made him want to flex his filmmaking muscles and direct a thriller in the Hitchcock mold, not just write it. From that, we get Drop, which hits theaters in the United States on April 11th. Landon is keen to show audiences something in a different drive from his previous filmmaking efforts and Drop delivers in spades.The ingenuity behind the setpieces in the film are very well thought out to become almost characters in their own way and hearing Landon describe the nuance in them shows the love he has for the filmmaking process. #dropthemovie #christopherlandon --- First dates are nerve-wracking enough. Going on a first date while an unnamed, unseen troll pings you personal memes that escalate from annoying to homicidal? Blood-chilling. Director Christopher Landon returns to the thriller genre with the playful, keep-you-guessing intensity he perfected in the Happy Death Day films with this of-the-moment whodunnit where everyone in the vicinity is a suspect . . . or victim. Drop is jointly produced by blockbuster genre houses Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes. Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy, breakout star of White Lotus and The Perfect Couple, plays Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, who arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry (It Ends with Us’ Brandon Sklenar) is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone. She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die. Her unseen tormentor’s final directive? Kill Henry. The film also stars Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) and newcomer Jacob Robinson as Violet’s sister and son; with Reed Diamond (Moneyball), Gabrielle Ryan (Power Book IV: Force), Jeffery Self (Mack & Rita), Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project) and Travis Nelson (The Lake) as the restaurant’s staff and diners. Drop is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Landon, the writer-director of last year’s We Have a Ghost and the zeitgeist-rattling Blumhouse hits Freaky, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and the Happy Death Day films. The film is written by Jillian Jacobs & Chris Roach, writers of Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island. The film is produced by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s, M3GAN) for Blumhouse and by Michael Bay (Transformers films, A Quiet Place franchise), Brad Fuller (A Quiet Place films, The Purge franchise) and Cameron Fuller (The Astronaut) for Platinum Dunes. The executive producer is Sam Lerner. Genre: Thriller Cast: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, Travis Nelson Screenplay: Jillian Jacobs & Chris Roach Director: Christopher Landon Producers: Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller, Cameron Fuller Executive Producer: Sam Lerner