‘The Nun 2’ Filmmaker Michael Chaves On Breaking Into New Line’s House Of Horror – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comWithin the course of a week some six years ago, aspiring genre filmmaker Michael Chaves’ life changed forever. Bloody Disgusting had posted his haunted house horror short The Maiden, which stylistically in its sneaky shots, steely hues and earth tones is oh-so-close to the gist of The Conjuring franchise.
Off of that, Chaves, a Pasadena Art School & Design alum (which includes Michael Bay and Zack Snyder) gets a meeting and is signed by James Wan and David Sandberg’s CAA rep, Scott Henderson, a guru in the genre space.
Chaves then winds up in front of New Line execs Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter pitching himself for the directing gig of The Curse of La Llorona.
Wan was wowed over by The Maiden, too. Chaves’ oversee of The Curse of La Llorona goes so well, the movie turns a net profit near $46M off its $9M production cost and $123M global grossing box office.
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