All of her film majors talk to her all the time. Actually, Michael and I were on the phone with her last week. I had the most amazing film professor who everyone talks about, Jeanine Basinger. I wouldn’t have had a career if I didn’t go to Wesleyan and met Michael Bay. It was a great group of people.Īt the site we hear a lot of filmmakers dismiss film school. I don’t know if Matthew Weiner was a film major, but he was there. I was lucky to be in a room with guys who were clearly talented. There was maybe 20 of us, which was Freshman through Senior. I consider myself very lucky to have been in the Wesleyan film program at the time. There was never a heartbreak in the inability to direct. I always knew I wanted to have relationships with directors and help them realize their vision. In my class at Wesleyan, Bay, Joss Whedon, Miguel Arteta, and so many talented people were there. When we were in college, Michael made a student film, but I wasn’t even interested in directing a student film. It wasn’t just that I had no interest, but I wasn’t talented in that area at all. When we started Platinum Dunes, we wanted to provide first time directors with an opportunity to make their movies, which is how we went into the whole company initially. We all wanted to make, as you said, big commercial movies.
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Bay was already Michael Bay, while Drew and I wanted to get a movie made. So did you all grow up with the same dream of making big, commercial movies? It was Michael’s idea for the three of us to work together. He was his assistant, so Michael met Drew on Bad Boys. I’ve known him since we were 15 years old and then we went to college together.ĭrew worked for Jerry Bruckheimer. A lot of people take a run at Bay, but he can do different things and do them well.
I think he succeeded in trying to make a movie about pretty difficult people to watch and made them worth watching, which isn’t an easiest thing to do. I had nothing to do with it, except to root for it. The Purge represents a new direction for Platinum Dunes.įuller made the time to tell us about where the company is going and why it had to go there: The home invasion pic was made for two million dollars which is a low budget that Fuller and his partners aren’t exactly used to.
This is what led him to teaming up with producer Jason Blum and making the high-concept thriller The Purge. They were R-rated horror hits that Fuller has been having a difficult time making since Elm Street. However, some of that hate comes from an insular community, as proven by the box-office numbers A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Friday the 13th delivered. Remaking a horror classic is going to lose certain audience members from the start, but some of Platinum Dunes’ work has been met with downright hate. Producer Brad Fuller - who started the company with Andrew Form and Michael Bay around 10 years ago ‐ is well aware of the lashings he and his partners have taken. “Everyone,” of course, meaning a fair chunk of the online film community. Thus far, Platinum Dunes hasn’t made movies for everyone. ‘The Purge’ Producer Brad Fuller on The Future of Platinum Dunes
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