Heres how the conversation went down.
Who is the overall boss of theParanormal Activityseries?
There are multiple captains.
How pre-planned is this ending?
And who thought of it?
But we kept building the mythology with each movie.
I like the idea of aParanormal Activitybrain trust.
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Thats exactly what it is.
I think there was a general consensus that we wanted this to be the last in the franchise.
We decided to do that before we had written the script and were just at the treatment phase.
It was creatively very freeing to not hold anything back and to make the lastParanormal Activity.
That gave us a lot of freedom, creatively, to really do something with this movie.
What would it take to convince you to do another one?
A lot of years.
It needs a rest.
Did you take a lot of runs at this last one?
It was a lot harder because its in 3D.
And this time were finished, though usually wed still be shooting at this stage.
Thats very unusual forParanormal.
So, what do you get for making the film in 3D?
A couple of things.
By saying it was the last one, we get to give answers.
By doing that in 3D we gain a new tool.
3D offered exactly that.Im still not entirely clear on the relationship of the ancillary Japanese film to this series.
Is that folded into the continuity by this last film, or is that forever some kind of outlier?
It has nothing to do with this movie or any of these movies.
Truth be told, they got their hands on the rights before we had locked it up.
They went off in a very different direction.
You and me both.
What did you learn from the success ofThe Marked Ones?
I definitely agree with that.
It showed exactly that, and were making a big effort to show more diverse casts.
I think theres obviously a bigger audience for that kind of representation.
Theres none so vocal as the horror audience.
And I do listen to them.
Yeah, I think the last movie happened because of the audience.
The fourth movie in particular was like Guys, enough with the teasing, we want answers.
That had a lot to do with listening to the fans.
I love them because, I think, I like working creatively with parameters.
Its good to use the different parts of my brain.
Very different rules apply.Why is yourAmityvillefilm slipping away from me?
Everytime I think Im going to see it, it vanishes into the future.
Its really true, isnt it?
We did re-date it.
One of the things is that you’re gonna wanna space out scary movies.
That left me scratching my head a little.
What do you think about this shift, particularly in respect to the kind of films you make?
Its getting more efficient and healthier.
Weve got a healthy deal with Netflix and theres great distribution.
People wont get to see it in the theatre, but at least theyll get to see the movie.
Is it opening any particular possibilities that werent there before?
Have they gone away now?
What has he brought to found footage?
Well, he doesnt actually even call it found footage.
I think hes right not to.
When you see the movie youll see that its hard to describe his version…
I guess the shots are much more composed.
It is found footage, but youll almost forget its found footage.
Youre going to realise it now that I said it.
Thats one of the reasons I was so excited by this movie when I saw the rough cut.
A pleasure as always.
Thanks again.Thank you Jason Blum.
