SYS Podcast Episode 537: Gigi Levangie Reveals Untold Secrets Behind the Making of SAW (2004)
Ashley
You know, yeah, sound advice. I hope people really heed that. So, just quickly talk about stepmom a little bit. Was that a spec script that you were able to get into the system? Um, what was the inspiration for that? And then ultimately, how did you kind of get that into the system and get that green lit?
Gigi Levangie
Okay, so stepmom, I wrote that very, very, very quickly. And I was, at the time, about to become a stepmom. And it was just this idea I had, like, what if something happened to my step-kid’s mom, and then how would if I were her, how would I train a new woman to raise my kids. And I couldn’t believe that no one had written this story before. So, it was just something that I, I felt very deeply and I wrote it quickly. And I had an agent at the time, but I wasn’t really signed on with him. And he got it to Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon’s agent. And eventually, eventually, eventually, they said yes. And then it went through all these different directors. And a few years later, Chris Columbus decided to direct it. And at the end, it was I think it works as a movie really well. It didn’t have like my script had a little more humor, you know, in it. But that’s just me. That’s how I do bad news. I wait 20 minutes and make a joke, you know. So that’s my coping mechanism. So, but that’s, I, I don’t want to say I got lucky with that. But that was relatively smooth in terms of getting it to people relative to other-to-other projects. You wait years and years and years. Like this one, I think breathe it was breathe was six years. Trust, trust. Yeah.
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