Why ‘The Sea Beast’ Director Chris Williams Made the Leap From Disney to Netflix
18.05.2022 - 18:37
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How much how much had you already been thinking about this story before moving over to Netflix?Oh, my gosh. I mean, one answer is most of my life. And I’m not saying that just for a funky answer.
I just have always loved this genre. “King Kong” struck such a chord with me. And of course, I love “Star Wars.” Everyone loves “Star Wars.” But somehow “King Kong” hit me even harder.
This is the ‘70s version of “King Kong” – that was my version of “King Kong,” the one I fell in love with.And then, you know, later, seeing “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – I think I left that theater a different person. It was thrilling, of course, but almost strangely affirming because I was watching this thing that I love, but I also on some level understood that adults made this thing. And they must love the things that I love.
And that it’s okay to grow up was almost a thing that was going on in my head. That was part of the thing that really started to get traction for me was like, I want to tell stories.Those kinds of stories later, “Lawrence of Arabia” was one of those, for me, that just knocked me back. The idea that maybe one day I’d be able to take on a big sweeping action adventure story like that always hovered, right.
And then, as you know, as I’ve gone through my career of working on movies, there’s always these vague notions, and scraps of sketches and things I’ve written down and that are in my flat file. They just have these hazy notions that will recapture my interest.And then over time, you revisit it, and it starts to crystallize a little bit and evolve and take shape. It was almost like a decades-long evolution, that then really starts to accelerate.