A24's "Onslaught" w/ Director Adam Wingard

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Adam Wingard joins The Screenplayed Breakdown to discuss Onslaught, his return to independent filmmaking after years of working within the studio system. Adam discusses the filmmakers and films that shaped his approach, from John Carpenter and James Cameron to The Fog, Halloween III, Terminator 2, and No Country for Old Men. He breaks down how those influences came together in the film’s visual language, including the “war room” where he and his collaborators built a vision board from the movies that inspired them. Adam also discusses the process of developing Onslaught from a much smaller, $300,000 movie into a larger-scale action film, and how he and writer Simon Barrett eventually found…