ReelReveal #88

Two college friends wrote it, and when they pitched it a studio executive suggested folding it into the Cloverfield franchise. They named the actress they wanted for the mother before there was a script to send her; her husband was sent it for the father, and she then suggested he direct — he never asked her to star, in case she said yes just to support him. The production bought twenty tons of corn and paid local farmers to grow it.