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‘The Watchers’: Dakota Fanning, Ishana Shyamalan and Georgina Campbell Reveal How ‘Love Island’ Helped Shape the Horror Film
Dakota Fanning, Ishana Shyamalan and Georgina Campbell open up about horror thriller 'The Watchers,' including how 'Love Island' impacted the script.
“ The Watchers,” in theaters Friday from Warner Bros., follows Mina as she finds herself trapped in the forest with three strangers ( Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan and Olwen Fouéré), forced to abide by the rules of mysterious malevolent creatures each night. “I was watching ‘Love Island’ as I was writing the script,” director and writer Ishana Shyamalan tells Variety with a laugh, adding that she found a curious parallel between the film’s protagonists and reality contestants. While her father serves as a producer on “The Watchers,” Ishana says she was ready for the prospect of helming a project entirely on her own: “I was really excited about that challenge, I think of not having a style to match and just being able to lean into what I found interesting.
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