Actor/director Adam Robitel discusses his upcoming film The Taking of Deborah Logan and his experiences working with X-Men director Bryan Singer.
“It’s a medical documentary gone wrong, is the way I describe it,” he says of his new movie, which deals with the subject of dementia. “It’s ultimately a possession film wrapped in a completely grounded medical documentary. “For my first movie, I wanted to make something that was manageable at a price. I had always been terrified of Alzheimer’s disease, my uncle would wander at night and people would find him in their backyards.”
The producer of the film is X-Men director Bryan Singer. “I’ve known Bryan for quite awhile, and I knew he loved anything with medical… he’s the producer of House. He also seems to be quite a hypochondriac – so I hear.” The association with Singer helped get financial backing for the project. “We took basically Bryan’s name and were able to leverage that in the marketplace. We sort of collateralized the money that way – it was still a challenge.”
The latest film is his directorial debut, although he said he had directed a few industrials before that, and actually came from an acting background and at one point wanted to me a stuntman.
But he said he truly learned the art of telling stories for the big screen by editing the 2010 film 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. “Ultimately looking back, if I were to reverse engineer my career, the real turning point for me was editing. Because editing is the best form of storytelling, in terms of taking raw material and just crafting story,” he said, encouraging others trying to get into the business to take this path.
Watch the full episode to find out more about The Taking of Deborah Logan and to hear Adam’s thoughts on working in the horror genre.
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