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‘The Stranger’s’ Unlikely Second Act: How Veena Sud Turned Her Quibi Series Into a Feature Film for Hulu
After Quibi failed, Veena Sud turned the thriller series she made for the streamer into a feature film for Hulu.
Its improbable second act has a lot to do with Quibi’s unique business model, which allowed the creators who worked for the digital startup to regain the underlying copyright for their shows after two years. So even as Sud prepped “The Stranger,” assembling a cast that included Dane DeHaan and “It Follows” breakout Maika Monroe, she thought about finding a way to eventually reconstruct the spooky story so it worked as both a series of interconnected episodes and as a seamless 100-minute feature. She notes that Catherine Hardwicke has attempted to do something similar with “Don’t Look Deeper,” a short-form series created for the defunct service and later re-packaged as a feature film.
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