Primate Movie Director Johannes Roberts Breaks Down the Wildest Scenes & Hidden Meanings!
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Primate movie director Johannes Roberts shares behind the scenes, making of, and secrets of mastering horror! He also directed the 47 Meters Down movies, The Strangers Prey At Night, and Resident Evil Welcome To Raccoon City!
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| 0:00.0 | I thought, oh, this could be a really interesting spin on Kujo. |
| 0:02.6 | And then as the movie progressed, at some point it changed into a chimpanzee. |
| 0:08.7 | And there you go. |
| 0:11.1 | Now you have primate. |
| 0:12.3 | There's someone I want you to meet. |
| 0:13.7 | This is Ben. |
| 0:15.1 | My hand? |
| 0:15.8 | He wants to shake my hand? |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi, Ben. |
| 0:18.2 | Whenever you see an article about 47 meters down, 99% of the time they use this still from the test that we did, which is not, that's Vanessa Kirby. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a potato. |
| 0:32.9 | What? |
| 0:33.7 | Taylor, we're seeing you, David. |
| 0:35.6 | The pool scene is incredible. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:40.2 | You never know with these scenes. |
| 0:41.9 | Like there was at no point did any of us think that it would become the scene that people talk about. |
| 0:50.0 | Not just in that movie, but people will just talk about that. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. Not just in that movie, but I, you know, people will just talk about that. |
| 1:01.6 | What's the scene that was most physically exhausting to shoot? |
| 1:04.9 | Anything. Anything in Resident Evil. |
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