After writing five “Paranormal Activity” movies, directing one (2014’s “The Marked Ones”), and creating inventive new mythologies with “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky,” “We Have a Ghost” is a decided…
: you know, for kids. To be more accurate, it’s for families — the kind of story that’s not just scary, but funny, and heartfelt as well, like “E.T the Extra-Terrestrial” and other Amblin movies of the 1980s. “They showed kids in peril and that the world is a dark place, but that you come out on the other side of it,” Landon tells Variety.
That’s really what we look at here, especially when Kevin really just starts to see that his dad is just a bit of a fuck-up. It wasn’t necessarily there in the short story, but it was something that I really wanted to look at, while also still making a fun family friendly movie as well, which was another thing that was top of mind — because I have kids of my own now, and I do start to think about what kinds of things I want to put out into the world.
There isn’t anything too specific, but I think the slippery slope is when you trick yourself into believing that what you’re doing is for them and not for you. And I think that’s a really easy thing to do. As a director, I really sometimes struggle with the fact that my job requires me to leave my family for extended periods of time. I have two little boys. And it’s tough because it disrupts their lives, and I don’t get to see them as much as I want to.
At the end of the day, I knew that I wanted the movie to be about serious things like connection and loss and trauma, and ultimately reconciliation. And the Kevin character was great because he is an old soul who feels like he’s living in the wrong time. He’s not your average teenager. He’s not phone obsessed and TikTok obsessed, and he loves old music and vintage clothes and just is a different person, but he is also a kid that is very unseen by his father, by his brother, by his peers.
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