I am someone who is open to ideas, whoever they come from, if it's my mom or a friend or the prop person or whoever it is.

I think that people have good ideas and I want to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, two sisters band together in hopes of receiving an inheritance and director

Dean Craig's comedy, The Estate. The film finds them pitted against their greedy, extended family

members, in a battle to win over their terminally ill, difficult to please aunt, in hopes of

becoming the beneficiaries of her estate. In addition to the estate, Craig's other directorial

credits include the feature film Love Wedding Repeat and the upcoming feature The Honeymoon.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Craig spoke with

director Alex Grossman about filming The Estate.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you.

Hello. I'm Alex Grossman. This, as you know, is Dean Craig, writer and director. You know, that kind of brings me to my first question for Dean is, how'd you come up with this? I mean, this is your movie. What's the inspiration? Wow. How did I come up with this? I mean this is this is your movie what's the

inspiration um wow how did I come up with it I mean it was so this started actually as a

um TV pilot for HBO that I was writing like years and years ago and um and it was kind of

quite well received as a pilot and it did did well but they didn't obviously they didn't go and make received as a pilot, and it did well, but they didn't, obviously,

they didn't go and make it as a pilot.

So we, you know, but I just wasn't really ready to drop it.

There was just something I really liked about it, and there was more to explore there.

So, you know, I mean, a long story short is cut to a few years later.

And I was talking to Mark Goldberg, the producer, and decided to, actually, there was a step

before that because we got Tony attached to it as a TV series.

And then when that didn't work out, I basically just wanted to rewrite it as a film, as a feature film.

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