But when I got involved, they're UK writers, so it was definitely told in more of an "every city," a little bit more of a metaphorical sense to everything. Well, the script that I originally had read to get involved with the movie actually was not set anywhere specifically, and it had very much The Max Headroom Incident in the DNA. Was that meant to be a nod to the original Max Headroom incident and how it happened in Chicago or were there other elements of the story that you think made it so Chicago and the geography of the state were integral to the story or look of the film? This movie starts in Chicago but then heads to lesser-known towns in Illinois, like Joliet or Peoria. Essentially just trying to make it your own while also just trying to be true to like, whatever the spirit of the material was. Things that just were of my interest levels in the thing that I wanted to push further, and in doing that, it felt like there was.
We had lots of script meetings, we were developing the script and pushing certain things further and whatnot. I know that the writers, perhaps they had some conspiracy, '70s, paranoia-thriller inspirations, but we didn't really discuss that. I think that having, eventually, seen some of the original stuff, I did see like, "Oh, well, I think it got it some of the same places through different roots," if that makes sense. Just because I have so much respect for directors and stuff like that, but ultimately, by the time I was already involved in it and it seemed like my take and all the things that I wanted to do with it, were not necessarily informed by anything other than the material. I didn't know that they made a short film when I got involved, and I actually think I might have been a little bit more hesitant. Well, to be honest with you, I didn't actually know that it was based on it.
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