37-year-old brothers who created 'Stranger Things' got rejected by over 15 networks before Netflix said yes. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"You find a movie you love and you figure out who directed it, then you go to the video store and go through all the John Carpenter stuff and all the Sam Raimi stuff," Matt Duffer told The Guardian. "We fell in love with movies through directors. Very early on we knew that was what we wanted to do."
After graduating in 2007, it still took the brothers several years to catch a break in Hollywood. They made roughly half a dozen short films in their early 20s, but continued to feel the sting of rejection when pitching bigger ideas to producers and studios. in the US. But the experience helped them land a writing job on the Fox TV series "Wayward Pines" in 2015, after director M. Night Shyamalan read the script for "Hidden" and offered them jobs.
"'You either gotta make it into a kids show or make it about this Hopper [detective] character investigating paranormal activity around town,'" one executive told the brothers, they told Rolling Stone. Matt remembers replying that doing so would "lose everything interesting about the show."
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