“Charlie Kaufman’s just able to kind of go deeper and add additional layers” SOMEWHERE IN THE multiverse, there exists a version of Orion And The Dark that’s a straightforward retelling of Emma Yarlett’s adorable picture book – a simple story about a boy who’s scared of the dark but ends up befriending a mysterious entity that embodies the night. This is not that universe.
“You give that book to 99.9% of the other screenwriters in Hollywood, you get that version of the film,” says producer Peter McCown. “Charlie Kaufman just takes it to a different level.”
Yes, he’s talking about that Charlie Kaufman, the writer behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Considering that his last animated feature, the stop-motion film Anomalisa – about a…
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