Kane Parsons

I woke up early.

think it's a it was it was a mixture of like because because what was what i had on youtube was something that it's the same like narrative engine like it's or at least the world is still there it's like this film is all ended up in a place where it's the same canon and that was always the hope so i think it was you know finding finding like what is a interesting

like, like genuinely compelling, not just for people who have already followed the project, but like, what is a, like a eyebrow raising just intro film to that concept that does not like entrench the viewer in all of this, this either feeling of being alienated by a mythology that's been going on for years.

And it's like, how can we make sure that like,

you're not going into the film.

And then when you don't get it, people are hounding you with the criticism that like it's for the fans or you were supposed to have watched the whole series first.

And I just, I personally don't really enjoy that.

I like being able to, especially because background's the way I've constructed it.

It's usually a little bit in,

a bit of an anthology type is, you know, it's, it's told out of order and it's more of putting together a broader shape of a tree rather than, um, you know, or that's how I've been constructing it so far.

I'd love to do like a TV series.

And like, I think as soon as you're picking like a, an episode and I consider this film an episode, um, then, then you can tell that in order and make sure you're completing that story.

But like, I don't think each individual piece needs to be lined up in this one precise way.

And so the hope was always, um,

this is a branch on the tree it is not like the fundamental thread that ties the whole thing together and it's not the ending it's not even the beginning it's just a piece in the middle that is hopefully going to be so focused on the fundamental sort of physical

details that overwhelm a character with finding this place that there's not even time in the movie to get entrenched in like the more underlying who is this mysterious individual who is the vice director of this research institute and what does he have going on in his life and what happened in 1972 and and whatnot it's like all that stuff is is in the youtube series but you know so i guess i guess to answer the question it was sort of as simple as finding

a compelling, I think a less is more sort of mundane approach to letting a character interact with the mechanic of the backgrounds in a way that really just foregrounds a simple relationship there.

Because I would love to, you know, I would love to go harder with a lot of things in future projects, but I,

i do think that to a certain extent i'm trying to be careful with my own ability to scale properly like there's such a thing as moving too fast um and and this has already been moving at light speed so i wanted to at least work on something that i think would be manageable and i

The worst thing that I would be afraid of doing is jumping the shark, I suppose.