Daniel Dubiecki - Body Talk on "Jennifer"
Daniel Dubiecki - Body Talk on "Jennifer"
The producer of Juno and Jennifer's Body talks high school vixens and villains.
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Jennifer’s Body Set Visit from 2008, Staci Layne Wilson reporting
Q: How was the experience different with Jennifer's Body than how it was in Juno?
Daniel Dubiecki: You know, surprisingly, it wasn't that different. To be honest, we have a lot of the same crew. We have a lot of the same key creative people. It's a very different movie but it has a similar feel. We had a good time with Juno. People got along people, so we didn't worry and when we came back here to shoot this movie. Luckily a lot of those people were available or made themselves available. The gaffer is the same. There were so many people, even to the electricians. So it's not super different. There is a horror element to this movie but we're still shooting in houses and we're still shooting in realistic locations. It's not like some creepy underground basement. It's not like a cemetery, it's mostly in someone's kitchen, or in high school. And so the feel isn't a super different. You know most things when you come here whether it be a drama or comedy and we have the blood out in the bodies and it would be very clear what it is it's not a movie where it's a movie that is sort of driven by a supernatural event that is happening to one of the characters. But it's not a movie that's just about supernatural stuff. It exists very much in what is supposed to be a real world. It's supposed to be a real town where everything is exactly what you would expect. It supposed to be a small rural town where nothing happens. I mean, this crazy thing happens. You know like, sort of making a movie getting all the people that really sort of nice, but it doesn't make the next one better. It doesn't make the next one even good. Unfortunately. So this one is good, this one will at least be half as good. It doesn't work that way. So you sort of have to start over and again there is a lot of decisions on the lot of things that go into making a movie and you just have to start from scratch. OK, who's going to design this movie? Who is going to shoot this movie? And all those things you sort of start to put back together and I think we've really assembles a good team again. Some people would think that, you know, more people are apt to say it and aren't and just let them have their vision.
Q: What was your reaction to the story of Jennifer's Body?
Dubiecki: I thought the story was great. As soon as they gave me the script I was like, "This is awesome." You know with Juno… I'm going to say that we saw this right after we finished Juno and just because everyone was involved with this stuff, it took a little bit before we actually got ready and said "OK we should go make this one now." Because this was a movie that was really important to Diablo Code that got made and sort of got made right. Most movies it's like one in 20 when you get the scripts and the script is no good, and they mostly sit on shelves. They just sit there and they never get made. But when we saw this one, Diablo said, "I really want to make this movie. I really liked the script. I really want to make sure that it gets made." So this movie we sold in October and we started in March. It was five months. That is really hard to do. Like, that's crazy. Like, a real studio would say this is a studio movie and it's studio distribution. All that stuff, but this sort of gets it from "Hey, we've got a script," and so they're getting a movie now and it went really quickly. It was important that it come out, so it wasn't even like no one knew we just read the script and liked it they were prepared to make it without even changing a word. If it wasn't for Karyn they would be out of luck. They said, "Alright you can start this movie, and you can get started in March." And they said, "Let's get going, and find a director." That's kind of how it went, and that's how it happened.
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