'Weapons' Director Zach Cregger Reveals Advice He Received From Filmmaker David Fincher, How He Helped During Production
Zach Cregger is opening up about his relationship with David Fincher!
The 44-year-old comedian and actor stepped behind-the-scenes for the new horror movie Weapons, which marks his second time directing.
In a new interview, Zach opened about getting advice from fellow filmmaker David Fincher and why he thanked him in the movie’s credits.
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“He’s just a very helpful guy. He was available to me during prep, and then he was very available during the post process,” Zach told Variety. “He watched the movie and had a lot of really constructive thoughts and gave me a ton of ideas. He helped me learn more about the editing process and how to think about it in a new way that wasn’t available to me when I was making Barbarian. So he just opened my mind up a lot.”
“There are things I thought I had to just settle for. I thought, ‘Well, that’s the take I have. That’s the best take. And it’s not perfect, but by God, nothing is.’ Dave’s attitude is, ‘It can always be better, and there are a lot of tools that you have at your disposal that you might not be thinking about.’” Zach added.”So, from reframing to stabilization to ADR to all sorts of things, it was really cool. Honestly, I learned a lot about how to prep, what lenses to use. I shot this mostly anamorphic, and I didn’t quite respect how limiting anamorphic is in the post process. So stuff like that, technical stuff.”
Weapons, which stars Julia Garner and Josh Brolin, just hit theaters this weekend - watch the trailer!
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