Bryan Fuller has made a career by creating idiosyncratic series like “Pushing Daisies” and “Hannibal”, and wrote for many others. Now he is preparing for his feature film debut, which should make his debut at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.
“Dust Bunny”, which has its world premiere on Monday at TIFF as part of Midnight Madness, features Sophie Sloan as an Urora, a young girl who is threatened by the giant, magical and bloodthirsty beast who lives under her bed. She then hires a star killers (the star of “Hannibal” Mads Mikkelsen) to take care of the problem … if only he believes it.
Fuller says that history has started as one of the possible episodes of Apple TV + series of Apple TV + 2020 “Amazing Stories”, based on the anthology program created by Steven Spielberg of the 80s.
“In some respects, it’s Spielberg, a tribute to these traumatic childhood films from the 80s, like” Poltergeist “and, in particular,” Gremlins “,” explains Fuller. “It was designed and designed to be an” astonishing “story. But as we developed for Apple, it was noted to death, and there were a lot of stories that we had developed that did not go ahead in the Apple process. So I said to myself:” You know what, it would be a big film. “” “
Since Fuller was a writer, creator and showrunner, who had been occupied since he wrote for the first time for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1997, he rarely thought of the realization.
“I was generally consumed with great rewriting, so there was not much time to direct,” he says. “I am professional and indulgent. If I directed with so much writing responsibilities to make, and in terms of rewriting that I do as a showrunner, it seemed that I could not do both. The head of the studio and it was a bit of a disaster.
Fuller says that his favorite part of the production was to put the film in reality alongside Sloan, his young star.
“My favorite days were to work with Sophie Sloan, who had as much experience with films as I was – which was nothing,” he said. “With Sophie, we found it together and were able to play in a way that you generally cannot do with an actor of a certain experience. So the days with Sophie were dates of play, to be able to explore the performances, to find the character, the cadence of dialogue and in a way that was fun. It is a film that has a 10 -year head, so there was something to create an environment that was going to be healthy and safe for a child and a child.
Although the film is a different medium for Fuller, it brought the visual flair and the love of color which often permeates its projects. He said he had a unique shared language to discuss the colors of “Dust Bunny” with his director of photography, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker.
“Our first conversations referred to my previous work,” explains Fuller. “If” Pushing Marguerites “is very sweet and” Hannibal “is very tasty in terms of color palette and lighting style, it must be mango chicken. It must be tasty and soft and have a really dynamic flavor profile. We therefore talked a lot about flavors as opposed to colors. ”
In the end, despite some frightening scenes, Fuller thinks that “Dust Bunny” is the perfect gateway horror for families to look together, because so many babies from the 80s hung on gender thanks to his beloved “Gremlins”.
Look at the trailer “Dust Bunny” below.
