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How a Director Turned a Real High School Into a Reusable Set: "I Was Tired of Waiting for a Miracle"

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Jeremy Garelick is like John Hughes, if the elder statesman of angsty teen dramas had owned his own high school. After building a career as a writer-director with credits like The Wedding Ringer and The Break-Up, Garelick was weary of the bruising nature of the studio system. "I had probably written six or seven scripts that almost went, with actors ready to sign on, and they didn’t go," he says. "It's a miracle when a movie gets made, and I was tired of waiting for a miracle." Working to produce two R-rated high school comedies at a major studio, Garelick couldn't get traction.

The genre is low-concept and necessitates newcomer talent — two factors that don’t fit well into the current franchise-filled theatrical calendar.

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