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Film Courage: What does worldbuilding mean to you?
Anthony DiBlasi, Filmmaker: I think it’s creating… it has a couple different meanings. If I’m doing a fantasy or science fiction story the worldbuilding is much more vast because there are so many elements you could delve into of if you’re telling a futuristic story:
-Is it our world or is it another world?
-Is it our timeline or is it another timeline?
You have to create:
-How people interact.
-How people live.
-What is the technology of that world?
Sci-fi is tremendous worldbuilding.
For something like Malum which is in some ways our world was askew because Scott [Scott Poiley] and I created a lot of terminology for that, for our villains that didn’t exist. We didn’t want it to be generic. We didn’t want to use things like…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Anthony DiBlasi graduated film school at Emerson College in Boston MA. Upon moving to Los Angeles he became a protégé of filmmaker/novelist Clive Barker. DiBlasi partnered in Barker’s production company Midnight Picture Show for nearly ten years, serving as a key executive & producer on films such as “Midnight Meat Train” (2008) and “Book of Blood” (2009). DiBlasi made his directorial debut with the psychological thriller “Dread” (2009), a feature film he wrote based on the Clive Barker short story of the same name. “Dread” was released theatrically in January of 2010 and went on to win Best Independent Feature at the 2010 Spike Scream Awards. He directed and co-wrote “Last Shift” a critically acclaimed supernatural horror film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2015. And directed “Extremity” a psychological thriller based on Extreme Haunts, released in 2018 by Epic Pictures.
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