Filmmakers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert explain how they got their one-of-a-kind sci-fi-action-comedy off the ground.
“It’s absurd and yet still has some logic that holds it together.
(They have a singular sensibility.)
Everything Everywhere All at Once.Allyson Riggs/A24
That was when we said, whoa, this is exciting; we get to do existential crisisandfight scenes.
They’re our two favorite things!”
“We have a hard time settling down with an idea,” adds Kwan.
Directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert on the set of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.Allyson Riggs/A24
“With this movie, it became a bucket to dump all our stray ideas.
Two early backers of the project were Anthony and Joseph Russo, theAvengers: Endgamedirectors.
Securing the film’s budget proved trickier.
Finally, the filmmakers were looking for a much larger budget than they had onSwiss Army Man.
“It was mixed reactions because people didn’t know what to make of it.
On the surface level it’s like, oh, it’s a sci-fi-action-comedy, let’s do it!
But then, once you read the script, you go, oh, I don’t knowwhatthis is.
So we kind of went on a weird journey to get back to A24.”
“The shoot was so fun,” says Hsu, who plays the daughter of Yeoh’s character.
“The Daniels really cultivated a community and a family.
“That was the balance we were trying to strike.”
Hsu, for one, believes they succeeded.
“‘Now that it’s playing more theaters, did we send a new edit or something?’
Because there isso muchto notice every single time.”
Watch the trailer forEverything Everywhere All at Oncebelow.
