Salem's Lot Barlow biting Mark's mother
Salem's Lot writer-director Gary Dauberman reveals the original runtime for his version of the Stephen King novel adaptation. The latest remake takes a retro approach to Salem's Lot, staying faithful to King's novel. The official runtime released for Max is only one hour and 55 minutes, but according to the director, he initially had a way longer runtime.
There’s so much great stuff. It’s like, what do you have to weed out? An audience’s attention span only goes so long. There are a lot of great side stories and B-stories in this book that I love, and it was hard to let those go in order to give more real estate to our core group of heroes. That was probably the biggest challenge—editing the story, and then figuring out those repercussions and those ripple effects into the main storyline. My first cut was about three hours.
To me it’s so important because it’s why Ben believes the vampire stuff, but we’re not telling that story, so that was the hardest thing to cut because I love the sequence. I kind of wanted to take a classic approach , because I hadn’t seen a classic approach in a while. I thought about the way that James approached The Conjuring where it felt like a very classically told haunted house story, but it felt fresh at the time because we hadn’t seen that in a long time.
At the same time, this also resulted in the film's terrifying design of the ancient vampire, Kurt Barlow. In the 1979 adaptation of the story, Barlow is a Nosferatu-like creature. The latest remake stays true to King's description of the ancient vampire. Duaberman talked to The Conjuring director James Wan about the creative direction for Kurt Barlow. While trying to decide between"the creature version vs.
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