Interview with Wes Ball
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00:00You are nonspecific in the beginning of this movie as far as like when exactly the movie is set,
00:04but for yourself, how detailed did you get as far as just the timeline of events between war and kingdom?
00:10Yeah, a couple hundred years is what we keep saying, you know.
00:13It's just a thing where, you know, some people are like,
00:16oh, the world doesn't look old enough, or the world doesn't look too old, or whatever it is.
00:21So it's like, it's better just to like do many generations later and let them kind of think what that means for themselves.
00:26But for us, it's hundreds of years, enough time that kind of dark ages have happened,
00:30enough has been lost, eroded, you know, and transformed, manipulated, you know, all that kind of stuff.
00:36So that's kind of where we went, and we have ideas for like what sort of brought us to this point,
00:43but it's really kind of fun just to drop right in the middle of this thing, and there's so much we don't know.
00:47It just puts us in a good place to where we can just kind of rediscover a world along with these characters,
00:52you know what I mean, rather than just doing that kind of direct sequel thing.
00:55That was the choice, really, to get some distance.
00:57It gave us a lot of opportunities, actually, and freedom, I guess, to kind of do our own thing, you know what I mean?
01:02Well, even like talking with the actors, like, I mean, they are such rich characters,
01:06but you don't kill us with exposition, like you don't give us everything.
01:10We'll see if that works for people, but I chose to kind of do 2 plus 2 instead of 4, right?
01:15To give people, maybe people lean in and kind of do their own interpretations of things.
01:19Partly that is just there's too much damn movie in it.
01:22There's too much stuff, you know, but hopefully we found that balance
01:25where there's enough to get you interested,
01:27because we've got ideas where we can keep expanding all this stuff in the future,
01:30if we're lucky enough.
01:32But you're right, we tried hard not to, you know, to hold your hand too much.
01:38We'll see if it works.
01:39Sure.