In \u201cDust Bunny,\u201d Fuller wants you to want the fantasy to be real. The \u201cHannibal\u201d and \u201cPushing Daisies\u201d creator\u2019s new dark fantasy film follows a young girl (Sophie Sloan) who asks her neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) to help kill the monster under her bed that has eaten her family. The film, which premieres at TIFF on Tuesday and is slated to hit theaters in December, drops viewers right into a fantasy world that star Sigourney Weaver found \u201cenchanting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI fell in love with the script,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI said yes right after meeting Bryan, but I had no idea I was going to get to enter a world that was so wildly beautiful and exotic and so funny, and I think that\u2019s what the surprise is. Yes, it\u2019s a sort of classic fairy tale, but so original and so there\u2019s just so many bursts of energy in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Fuller, the film began as a failed pitch for Apple TV+\u2019s revival of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cAmazing Stories.\u201d When its TV incarnation never came to be, Fuller realized that it was both a \u201cgreat\u201d idea for a movie and that making it would give him a chance to sit in a director\u2019s chair for the first time.<\/p>\n \u201cIn TV, I never got the chance to direct because my first responsibility as a showrunner is to make sure the scripts are in order and the production is running smoothly. If you direct, you take yourself out of that, and it always felt irresponsible,\u201d Fuller explained. Eventually, he just decided, \u201cOK, I need to do this. I need to evolve from being a screenwriter and be a filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n Weaver was disheartened to learn that \u201cDust Bunny\u201d had earned an R rating from the MPAA over a \u201cnon-lethal toothbrush injury\u201d in the film. According to both her and Fuller, they always intended for it to be something the whole family could see together.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI would want any child to see this, because I think it\u2019s so filled with hope,\u201d Weaver remarked. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed, frankly, that it\u2019s not whatever we want it to be [rated], because I think it\u2019s really a children\u2019s instant classic.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy hope is that it\u2019s the first R-rated movie parents take their children to see, because it is made as a family movie,\u201d Fuller added. \u201cOur message would be: Parents go see it on Thursday and Friday, and then take your kids to a matinee on the weekend once you see that it\u2019s actually appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n While the film\u2019s story is one of a difficult childhood, Fuller believes that only makes \u201cDust Bunny\u201d more relatable for viewers, regardless their age. \u201cWe all have complicated childhoods,\u201d he said. \u201cI think there\u2019s something [to] giving people hope that, if you\u2019re in the middle of a complicated childhood, you are your way out.\u201d<\/p>\n Weaver does not believe the film\u2019s sometimes dark turns get in the way of its entertainment value or whole-family appeal, either. \u201cWhen you watch the movie, as complicated as [the protagonist\u2019s] childhood has been, she is not scarred and undermined by it,\u201d Weaver observed. \u201cIt has clarified to her what she needs to do to improve things.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s already changing the world to fit her needs,\u201d the actress concluded, before adding with a laugh, \u201cI find it very exciting and healing \u2014 even for an older, traumatized person.\u201d<\/p>\n Catch up on all of TheWrap\u2019s TIFF coverage\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757389749_979_Free-Trial-General-2.png\")
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