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🗓️ 20 November 2017
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#134 Spierig Brothers Interview:
Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built
Hi, everybody. We’re here at the Winchester House, San Jose, California. I’ve been asked to join the CBS Films team (thank you!) to interview film directors, Peter & Michael Spierig. The new film, titled, “Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built.” was filmed, in part, here at the Winchester house.
The film is inspired by the real events, led by Sarah Winchester, heiress of the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune. Sarah Winchester was told by a reader, a psychic that all the dead killed by the Winchester Repeating Rifle, throughout time, will haunt her for all her life on earth. Sarah Winchester then built this house, famously with doors to nowhere, staircases to nowhere, hallways and entries to nowhere. The film stars Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester.
The Winchester House is famous throughout the world, and we’re joined tonight by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film is amazing.
Enjoy.
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0:00.0 | You're going to be. You know it's kind of normal for us to do things together, being twins and growing up together so we we kind of split our duties 50-50 and |
0:47.2 | the writing process is very sort of collaborative and we sort of plan everything together |
0:52.1 | and then we'll |
0:53.2 | Michael might go write a scene by himself and I'll write a scene and then we'll |
0:57.5 | swap each other scenes around and rewrite each other and it's all sort of |
1:01.6 | organic in that sense and it's kind of the same |
1:05.4 | with directing we get on set when we talk to the actors when we you know come up |
1:10.4 | with shots it's all pretty much executing a plan that we've thought about |
1:14.7 | for a long time. |
1:16.7 | I think it helps being brothers in the sense of that we've had a shared experience |
1:26.5 | growing up and that we've been into the same movies. We seem to get along well, |
1:32.0 | you know, and I think there is a shorthand so we can get through a process a lot quicker than sort of I guess people who aren't that familiar with each other. |
1:40.0 | I think we're brutally honest with each other so that kind of |
1:43.9 | shortcuts a lot of a lot of things and we also I think to having two minds it kind of |
1:50.5 | helps particularly if you if you're doing a take and you're not entirely sure |
1:54.5 | whether you got it it's great to have that second voice to say well yeah we did |
1:57.5 | get it let's let's move on. Well, you're right, there is only one photograph for Sarah Winchester. |
2:16.6 | There's another painting of her, I believe, when she was younger, but yeah, there's not a lot of historical images of Sarah Winchester. |
2:25.2 | I mean, we tried to find as much information |
2:27.9 | as we could on her, and I think that we've sort of reconstructed as much historical information into the story as we possibly could. |
2:38.4 | Yeah, I mean we did a lot of research. We spent quite a lot of time looking through as many photos. of |
2:45.0 | a lot of time looking through as many photos as we could of the area of this house. |
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