You’re just sitting there by yourself, tapping away… I had never really known how great it could be working with someone else, when you’re actually in the same room kicking around ideas. Writing is such a lonely profession, as you know. And it was really one of the most fun times I’ve had writing.
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We’d sit around and just try to crack each other up. So we just translated that into a screenplay. Because he was already a friend of mine we just had such an easy rapport – you know, we’d spend most of our times just hanging out, trying to make each other laugh. Then I roped him into it, phoned him up one day and said, “Listen, I’ve decided I wanna write this film Cooties about this virus that affects kids, and I want you to write it with me.” And he was in. He’s been a friend of mine for a long time, and then when the idea for Cooties was pitched to me I said I wanna write that. But he did such a good with the role and was so funny that it kinda stands out in people’s minds. Actually, his Glee schedule conflicted with the shooting of the film, so he only had time for just that role. And I know, he should’ve lasted a lot longer. You put the film’s script together with Ian Brennan, who also plays the role of the school’s vice-principal and somebody who was great in the film but sadly doesn’t last all that long… It’s basically Dawn of the Dead meets Kindergarten Cop. If I had a longer time, I’d say it’s a horror-comedy about a substitute teacher who just happens to work at an elementary school on the day that his students, all the kids in the school, are infected by a virus that only affects pre-pubescents. Leigh Whannell: If I had a really short time, I’d say it’s a zom-com.
STARBURST: Now for anybody wondering what to expect from Cooties, how would you describe it to them? We caught up with Leigh to get the low down on Cooties, discuss his differing experiences as a writer and director, the possibilities of working in the increasingly-popular environment of horror TV, whether Saw VIII is on its way any time soon, and a whole lot more. Well that film, which is a horror-comedy focussed on infected kids terrorising a school, is now set to arrive in the UK. We’ve had the pleasure of chatting to him over the years about various projects, with the nugget of an idea called Cooties first coming up a couple of years ago – a movie that he co-wrote and stars in. Leigh Whannell has made himself one of the most popular figures in horror over the last decade or so, having been a vital cog in both the Saw and Insidious franchises, including popping his directorial cherry with this year’s Insidious: Chapter 3.
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