Interview With "Dust Bunny" Filmmaker Bryan Fuller

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"Dust Bunny" is an American horror-thriller film written and directed by Bryan Fuller in his feature directorial debut, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sheila Atim, David Dastmalchian, and Sigourney Weaver. It tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and received positive reviews for Mads Mikkelsen and Sophie Sloan's chemistry, Fuller's imaginative direction, and its blending of genres to create a fantastical horror film for kids. Fuller was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Cody Derrick's interview with the director and writer for the film Dust Bunny, Brian Fuller.
0:07.7	What did you see?
0:09.4	A monster?
0:13.9	Under my bed.
0:15.8	What do your parents think about monsters?
0:18.4	Would they believe in him?
0:22.6	I do know. Ah! Ah! about monsters. Do they believe in them? Did you know?
0:30.6	Is that enough to kill a monster? Well, may she think I kill monsters?
0:32.6	You seem like you killed all it thinks.
0:35.6	She believed in monsters. Count all that thinks.
0:41.6	She believe in monsters.
0:46.1	You're a monster.
0:47.2	She believe in you.
0:48.9	Brian Fuller, how you doing today?
0:50.1	Good, how are you?
0:51.0	Good, thanks.
0:53.6	Really excited to talk to you about your new film, Dust Bunny.
0:55.5	And rather should I say, your first film.
0:56.1	Yes.
0:58.0	Which is where I wanted to start out.
1:01.9	I mean, you have this prolific, nearly 30-year career on television,
1:06.7	but this is your first time working on a theatrical feature film as a writer, a director.
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