In 2014, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett directed “Devil’s Due” for Fox, based on Lindsay Devlin’s script (Villella served as executive producer).
That run-and-gun style of filmmaking has proven to have other benefits, as the trio have moved into the studio space. It was this great, fresh, new world to be like, ‘Hey, look, we made this short this weekend!'” We could go make these short, little rinky-dink videos for fun and they found an audience. “It was so different back then, I don’t want to sound like a super-old dude, but it was just a place to share things that you liked. “It’s the only reason we’re able to make a movie now,” Bettinelli-Olpin said. While the trio eventually began contributing memorable shorts to anthologies like “V/H/S” and “Southbound” before moving into their own feature-length offerings, they said that none of it would have happened without the early freedom of YouTube.
“All of a sudden, we were making like 35, 40 minute things, still on YouTube.” “Our goal was always ‘let’s make movies,'” co-director Bettinelli-Olpin said, and while the collective started out with tidy short films, the annotation feature allowed them to pursue longer-form storytelling. Using the “annotation” feature - which YouTube formally axed in 2018 - the conclusion of each video allowed viewers to choose which video they wanted to watch next, allowing them to continue the adventure based on their own preferences. Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 30 Films the Director Wants You to See How 'West Side Story' Breakout Mike Faist Made an Iconic Role His Own, 'Expectations Be Damned'Įmmy Predictions: Best Actress in a Limited Series - More Than a Two-Horse Race Cut Out All Distractions - and Created the Best Work of His Career To Make 'Jockey,' Star Clifton Collins Jr. They made waves on YouTube after posting the first of their “Interactive Adventures.” Juggling humor with shocking and scary twists, the videos applied a “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style storytelling to tell long-form stories in a relatively short period of time. In 2008, the group consisted of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Rob Polonsky, and Chad Villella (since then, Polonsky’s moved on Bettinelli-Olpin and Villella have been joined by Tyler Gillett).
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