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‘Speak No Evil’ Director Explains Why His Remake Changes the Original Ending and How Trailers Keep Showing ‘More Than Filmmakers Want’
"Speak No Evil" director James Watkins talks changing the ending of his horror remake.
When “Speak No Evil” director James Watkins sat down to write a screenplay based on the 2022 Danish horror film from Christian Tafdrup, he had one person in mind to play a deluded, deranged father. Here, Watkins discusses why he chose to use “Cotton Eye Joe” in a dance scene, what it’s like remaking a foreign film and his decision to change the original, “brilliantly bleak” ending. I grew up in England and in America a little bit, so I sort of thought, “Okay, if I’ve got these Americans coming in, that cultural collision that they have, and how that feeds into Christian’s themes immediately changes things.”
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