SYS Podcast Episode 537: Gigi Levangie Reveals Untold Secrets Behind the Making of SAW (2004)
Ashley
Yeah, yeah. So, so let’s dig into your latest film, Trust, which you wrote, maybe to start out, you can just give us a quick pitch or a logline. What is this film all about?
Gigi Levangie
Well, it’s about a famous woman’s or America’s sweetheart who has to leave town because she’s about to be hit with terrible publicity and she wants to go to a weekend secluded Airbnb and just shut the world off. But the best laid plans, you know, everything goes south for her on this trip. And it was based on one of my greatest fears, which is being locked in a small room closet in the dark and not being able to get out. And so that’s why I wrote it because it was a greatest spirit. It appealed to me on an emotional level and I felt some urgency because I had read a story years ago about a woman who went on vacation, secluded area. In the middle of the night, they surmised that she used, instead of going to the bathroom, she went into the hot water closet and she never made it out. You know, the door closes and that’s it. And she tried to scratch her, like, anyway. And I thought, this is the beginning of a movie. I have to write. I had a sense of urgency about it. You know, there are ideas and we share them all, you know, but that just speak to you and you have to, but you must, it’s imperative that you write it down and you get whatever your first draft done, I think as quickly as possible to have something tangible.
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