“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ashley
Yes, yes. So where did this idea come from? What was sort of the genesis of this idea? There’s millions of zombie movies out there. You know, why jump on and do another zombie movie? Where was the inspiration for this?
Ryan Smith
So really what I wanted to make whenever I first started writing it was actually kind of a love letter to all the lovecraftian things that I love. So, I was trying to whenever, I was generating ideas I was trying to think you know how many lovecraft things can I throw into the same film and so you know there’s obviously the Necronomicon there’s the silver key. Lots of places that are referred to like the restaurant that eat at is referred to as the done which there’s just a lot of different lovecraftian things throughout the film in fact there’s a point this hillbilly colt that ends up bringing the brother back to life they’re like oh we you know we won this auction that was out in Kingsport which is a lovecraftian location and they’re like we got all this stuff and we show this table that has all these artifacts on it and there’s a map of the Antarctic, which is the reference to mountains of madness and there’s just a lot of different artifacts that are on that. So, originally, I just wanted to shove a whole bunch of lovecraftian things together as far as the story goes I have a twin brother and he’s very popular and you know he was popular in high school the town that I live in now he and I both live in the same town he’s very popular in the town we’re in now and I’ve never murdered my brother, nor do I have plans to. But it was a I think fun just to kind of take that and blow that out of proportion and say you know what would it be like to be this guy who’s always in his brother’s shadow and you know all of a sudden that brother is gone and he’s got to deal with the consequences. And then the musical part was I think insanity at the time when I was kicking around the idea I was really enamored with Dr. Horrible sing along blog and I thought wouldn’t it be fun to take that that concept and instead of making it about superheroes lean into horror and in fact whenever I first wrote Eldritch it was written as a six part mini-series and when you watch the film you’ll notice that there’s title cards throughout and those were the that’s where the episode splits would end up. But we ended up truncating it into a feature instead.
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