Cult filmmaker Richard Stanley talks about making his long-awaited comeback, merging H.P. Lovecraft and Nicolas Cage in 'Color Out of Space.'
,” his first narrative feature in over two decades, Richard Stanley finally let himself believe he was making another movie.
Stanley’s striking style and metaphysical interests find a well-suited avatar in Cage, unleashed in “Color Out of Space” to wax manic while milking alpacas and excavating layers of patriarchal toxicity in his character, a loving husband and father gone unhinged. Stanley’s “Color Out of Space” updates the original Lovecraft tale with a modern setting and the character of Lavinia, played by Madeleine Arthur.
With co-writer Scarlett Amaris, he updated it with a modern setting, telling the story of Nathan Gardner , who moves with his wife, Theresa , their teenage daughter, Lavinia , teenage son Benny and young son Jack to a remote farm to get a fresh start raising tomatoes and alpacas.
One of the things he was doing during his two-decade absence from filmmaking, he said, was taking care of his dying mother as she battled cancer. Their complicated relationship, and his feelings over that period of his life, were some of the personal insights he shared with his actors before filming.
For every three or so of those full-throttle Cage “chaos” moments that made it into the final cut, there were three more left on the cutting-room floor. Cage likened his acting approach to jazz.
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