{"id":211284,"date":"2025-09-08T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211284\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:55:09","slug":"bryan-fuller-on-how-he-moved-from-tv-to-movie-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211284\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Fuller on How He Moved from TV to Movie Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBryan Fuller<\/a> made a career creating idiosyncratic series like \u201cPushing Daisies\u201d and \u201cHannibal<\/a>,\u201d and has written for many more. Now he\u2019s readying his feature film debut, which is set to debut at this year\u2019s Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDust Bunny<\/a>,\u201d which has its world premiere on Monday at TIFF as part of Midnight Madness, stars Sophie Sloan as Aurora, a young girl who is menaced by the giant, magical and bloodthirsty title beast who lives under her bed. She then hires a hitman (\u201cHannibal\u201d star Mads Mikkelsen) to take care of the problem\u2026if only he believes her.<\/p>\n

\n\tFuller says the story started as one of the possible episodes of the 2020 Apple TV+ series \u201cAmazing Stories,\u201d based on the Steven Spielberg-created anthology show from the \u201980s.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn some ways, it\u2019s Spielberg, a homage to those traumatic childhood films of the \u201980s, like \u2018Poltergeist\u2019 and, particularly, \u2018Gremlins,’\u201d Fuller says. \u201cIt was conceived and designed to be an \u2018Amazing Story\u2019 story. But as we were developing it for Apple, it was getting noted to death, and there were a lot of stories that we had developed that weren\u2019t moving forward in the process at Apple. So I was like, \u2018You know what, this would be a great movie.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince Fuller has been a busy TV writer, creator and showrunner since he first wrote for \u201cStar Trek: Deep Space Nine\u201d in 1997, he rarely thought about directing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was usually consumed with a lot of rewriting, so there wasn\u2019t much time to direct,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m professional and indulgent. If I were directing with so much writing responsibilities to do, and in terms of how much rewriting I do as a showrunner, it seemed I couldn\u2019t do both. I couldn\u2019t be 100% dedicated to the scripts, as well as taking a month off of showrunning duties to direct, so it never really was a reality for me. Initially, I had worked with a director that I was not a big fan of, and that director was assigned to me by the head of the studio and it was a bit of a disaster. I was like, \u2018This could never happen again. I need to direct.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFuller says that his favorite part of directing was bringing the film into reality alongside Sloan, his young star.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy favorite days were working with Sophie Sloan, who had as much experience with movies as I did \u2014 which was none,\u201d he says. \u201cWith Sophie, we were finding it together and got to play in a way that you don\u2019t usually get to do with an actor of a certain amount of experience. So the days with Sophie were play dates, being able to explore the performances, find the character, the cadence of the dialogue and in a way that was playful. It\u2019s a movie that has a 10-year-old lead, so there was something about creating an environment that was going to be healthy and safe for a child and a positive experience that was a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough film was a different medium for Fuller, he brought along the visual flair and love of color that often permeates his projects. He says that he had a unique shared language for discussing the colors of \u201cDust Bunny\u201d with his cinematographer, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur first conversations were in reference to my previous work,\u201d Fuller says. \u201cIf \u2018Pushing Daisies\u2019 is very sweet and \u2018Hannibal\u2019 is very savory in terms of the color palette and lighting style, this has got to be mango chicken. It\u2019s got to be savory and sweet and have a really dynamic flavor profile. So we talked a lot about flavors as opposed to colors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, despite a few scary scenes, Fuller thinks \u201cDust Bunny\u201d is the perfect gateway horror for families to watch together, as so many \u201980s babies got hooked on the genre thanks to his beloved \u201cGremlins.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the \u201cDust Bunny\u201d trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Fuller made a career creating idiosyncratic series like \u201cPushing Daisies\u201d and \u201cHannibal,\u201d and has written for many…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[115791,99581,171,115792,53,77123,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-211284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bryan-fuller","9":"tag-dust-bunny","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hannibal","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-toronto-film-festival","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115171146027158749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}