Lockwood & Co stars Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati as young paranormal investigators. Director Joe Cornish - of Adam And Joe fame - caught up with Sky News' Backstage podcast to discuss why he's so excited to bring the books by Jonathan Stroud to life on screen.
"I love it, I love the energy that younger actors bring," he says."I love the excitement of coming to work every day - this part of the process is incredible, the process of the cast and crew screening, the premieres, it's so exciting and it brings this really youthful energy to everything, I guess.
"And I'm less scared of directing them than I am of very experienced actors because remember: actors make three films a year, directors only make a film every three years if they're lucky, so it makes me feel like the wise old man, which I kind of am I suppose - old, maybe not so wise."Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati star in the supernatural series.
Lockwood & Co is something Cornish has been interested in for a while; he read the first of Jonathan Stroud's books a decade ago, describing it as"really brilliant and unique in these core ideas it has", but after a bidding war another studio bought the rights and his career took him elsewhere. Some 10 years later, the rights became available again - and now with several more books in the series - and after a phone call to Stroud himself the wheels were in motion for the show to go into production with Cornish at the helm.
"They're right in my wheelhouse, they have all the things I love and they just have these really brilliant original ideas at the core," he says of the stories."The first of which is ghosts can kill you by touching you."
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