Actor/director Adam Robitel discusses his upcoming film The Taking of Deborah Logan, as well as his experiences working in the horror genre .
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.”
He said he came across a clip of a woman who had mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease and she was talking lucidly about losing her mind. The woman would leave post-it notes around the house and come home from work, and she would sit in her chair and her mind would completely go blank. “It was like a 60 Minutes kind of interview,” he said.
“Then the clip cuts to two years in the future, and it shows her in a much-deteriorated state, not recognizing any of her loved ones. She is going from violence to complete paranoia, to deep anguish, all in the spell of seconds.” He said he showed Singer the clip, “And I could just see his mind… and I was like, ‘Bryan, I want to do a possession movie that uses this as a jumping off point.’ And that was kind of all I needed to get him excited about it – he saw the potential.”
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.”
Wach the full episode to also hear Adam address the challenges he faced taking on his directorial debut in The Taking of Deborah Logan.
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