A Monster Hit: Bryan Burk Talks Cloverfield
Producer Bryan Burk talks about the making of Cloverfield and how his early love for Star Wars and filmmaking as a whole influenced himself and his friends -- producer J.J Abrams and director Matt Reeves -- to make a monster movie full of surprises.
Excerpt:
Did working on Cloverfield with Matt and J.J. trigger any memories for you from being the producer of Matt's student film?
When I was in college, Matt was in grad school and J.J. had already graduated and sold his first scripts for Taking Care of Business and Regarding Henry. I remember the biggest obstacle we had was a scene in Matt's student film which is called Mr. Petrified Forest where there's a plane crash. And we didn't know how we were going to pull it off. It's a scene where a guy is in a limo and he's being driven to the airport and he's about to take the flight and freaks out and looks out the window and as he looks out you hear a plane crash on a front lawn and there's mayhem everywhere. Well, it was all fine and dandy on paper, but the big question was how are we going to recreate a plane crash in a student film?
J.J. said, "If you write it, I'll build it." The morning we were supposed to shoot the scene, sure enough, J.J. shows up in his car with this huge plane tail section he built himself with balsa wood in pieces sticking out from the back. He put it together in the yard and we had people running around looking like they were injured in a crash with dry ice all over the place. Matt even ran by screaming, with a dog. We basically recreated a plane crash in the front of Matt's mom's house.
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A Monster Hit: Bryan Burk Talks Cloverfield
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