Thirty Thousand Square Feet with Kane Parsons & James Wan
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include: Kane's parents keeping him off the internet until age eight, pirating way too much software, the origin of the Backrooms, the purgatories we build for ourselves, meeting your heroes after early virality, building 30,000 sq. ft. of sets on a soundstage, Kane accidentally calling his film a "product" and immediately wanting to flee to the woods, shotlisting an entire feature in Blender, renting out a Vancouver theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey during prep, James Wan's hopeful advice for young filmmakers, Renate's spiritual curiosity, control variables, and bringing the family together for the theatrical premiere of Backrooms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. I'm James Wan. And I'm Kane Parsons. And you're listening to the A24 podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Kane, buddy, how are you, man? I'm doing well. How are you doing, James? Good, good. I'm well as well. |
| 0:12.3 | So we're here to talk about all things back rooms and everything related to it and yourself, obviously. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah. I have a lot I can say. |
| 0:22.6 | It's been pretty all-consuming, like four-ish years or so now. |
| 0:28.2 | So it's been a pretty long journey for you, |
| 0:32.1 | I guess, from where you started with the shorts, right? |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:35.4 | With the first short, all the way to now, |
| 0:42.3 | the full-on, proper feature film version of it. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, yeah. It's been quite the journey. |
| 0:43.9 | It is changed in ways that I definitely did not expect when I initially posted that short. |
| 0:49.8 | And I mean, you were, you were present at the very beginning of that. |
| 0:53.7 | I think, I think, if I'm not mistaken, the first time we met, it was over Zoom, and I think |
| 0:59.5 | you were in post on Aquaman. |
| 1:02.1 | Right. |
| 1:02.8 | That sounds right. |
| 1:03.8 | And you walked in and you were eating a salad and you said hello. |
| 1:07.7 | And we talked for like one or two minutes and stepped up. |
| 1:10.6 | But I think that was, I think that was i think that was |
| 1:12.0 | the first time that was the first time we met via zoom yes and uh and i was eating a salad or |
| 1:17.1 | one of us it's seared into my brain and that's funny it's forever my that's cool and but then we met |
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