Death of a Unicorn Director Alex Scharfman on Crafting a Timely Dark Comedy

A24 and filmmaker Alex Scarfman Arth House is ready to shine a new light in Unicorn Lore with the latest Jenner release of the distributor. In The death of a unicorn, Jena (Wednesday) And Paul Rud (Avengers: Endagame) Play a daughter and father who accidentally ran over a baby’s unicorn on the way to an important meeting — a one that could break or break their family with mega-rich employer. The bizarre order of the event leads to an invention that can change the world if it actually comes out of the field of a menstrual wooden wood.

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Sabina Gravs, IO 9: So, I’m usually not a unicorn fan, but I think you have finally made me a Unicorn Giri. So thank you for that.

Alex Scarfman: That’s what Janeo said. Jena was not in Unicorn. I mean, I wasn’t in Unicorn until I started researching the movie. But yes, I think people are getting a level of depth that we didn’t know that there was for a while there.

Io9: I got it now. They can be metallic like hell. Let’s start at the beginning. What is the backstory of you to take this project in particular? Because it’s a wild journey.

Scarfman: The idea only came to me; The kind of opening scene has spread somewhere in my head and I don’t really know where it came from. But sometimes this kind of thing happens, where you imagine a scene and you like, “Where does it go?” It naturally just began to pull this national thread, “Where is that leadership?” And “If someone hurts a unicorn in their car?” “What is Unicorn?” Like, what will we bring as a human being?

IO 9: When you imagined this incident with a daughter and her father, did you think, “Oh yes, Paul Rud will be that father”?

Scarfman: At that time, no, it was before the actors or characters – it was a scene. And I didn’t know what was going on or where they were going or what it was; [it was] I have something stuck in my mind. It took me a few years even to start exploring it.

IO 9: Sure. And it also gave me a cart vonnegut short story adventure that takes a true sarcastic story that takes fantastic elements.

Scarfman: Can I simply say that I am a huge cart vanguut nord? And he actually has a story about a father and son in the Middle Ages, which is strange.

IO 9: Oh yes, the story of his unicorn victim.

Scarfman: Unicorn trapThe

IO 9: Okay!

Scarfman: Yes, okay. So you know the story.

IO 9: Do you really think about it when you were writing it, or that happened?

Scarfman: Being honest was a kind of event. I’ve read and received the whole Vonnagut Antology. I have read all the short stories I wrote. But it was not the one I was actively thinking, because the unicorns are not really big for any central personality in it. It’s more about parents and sons.

IO 9: Certainly keeping it in mind, of course you are a sarcastic fan. Do you think that there is a fundamental point in making this national satirical film, especially at a time where literally seems sarcastic every day in real life?

Scarfman: It’s funny, when I started writing it, I started outline like it 2019. And I think the fall of 2019, Out of the knife Barely came out and I was, “Oh, cool, satir.” Obviously, we have made a lot of jokes in a class commentary lately. I think it was something that was interesting to me when I started researching unicorn myths and unicorn lor, which I think at a certain time that I realized that the class and social structure and layer were inherently kind of. However, the tapestries we face in the movie, especially in the movie we face, are a lord to kill his court and his minor a unicorn and send it back to him so that he can stay forever.

It’s a lot about the supply of the product to the nature and social classification that tells a person, “Do this for me and bring it back here so that I can own something,” which I think is basically about class and satire. I thought the story was naturally wanted. In the context of 2025, I think when you are doing any horrible satire, Its fun is being able to do both horror and satire. [They] The best living geners with metaphors and I think the metaphors have a fun opportunity to align.

However, I think that there is something impossible to have something impossible about the movie that I think because we live in the impossible time. And perhaps what we do at the moment is what we do, you know, we live in an era when the White House has an office in the world’s rich man; It’s a lot like the surface. Now I think things were a lot more screening and there were certain degrees or rules that have since had a kind of touch from the window. It seemed suitable for me to make something that was direct and optimistic Catheric, and I certainly thought about the feeling of justice to the unicorn violent recovery, which seems suitable for the moment we live.

IO 9: Like whales vs. Yots! Amazing. No, it’s so weed that it only happened to get up at that wavelength because I was dying at will [Poulter’s] Petulant Tech Bro Performance. Because I’m right, wow, as we are always watching a person now, has been normalized, but he only got that role.

Scarfman: I can’t agree more. I am very lucky to the will the movie and the performance he did because I think it is fun and top and top, but it is also very basic in this kind of human psychology that I think it speaks to a larger degree, “How do we go here?” As a society, what kind of personality did we develop and celebrate the existence? The technicians of this millennium man, the brother-in-law, these self-styled masters in the universe who think that they have all the answers that are somewhat brave through Bravador and simply moving forward.

IO 9: He and the Jea that you surrounded is the fun person. So Richard’s desired preferences are a kind of weed to see him against [E. Grant] And Paul [Rudd] With straight face. Bit with anthony [Carrigan] And cursed grandpa’s watch. I didn’t catch it in the first view until Jenna indicates it!

Scarfman: It was my favorite joke; It really kills me. Movie has taken inspiration from the features of lots of animals from the ’70s to 90s, but Luis also has a class irony in the sense of Buuel Elimination And [Robert Altman’s] GOSFORD ParkThe These movies are the real garbage movies, which I like an Essential Movie where all your types of characters stand for archaeologists for social structures or for things bigger than yourself. And since they are in a very inclusive way, they can be a bit larger than life. It is very included in the ecosystem [of a film] It gives people the opportunity to grow up a bit from time to time and leads to those types of theaters and in those fun dashes of the camp.

It was just fun and then Jena was like the surrogate of the viewer. He is our eyes and ears. He is the person whose values ​​we agree. It was a kind of nature of the story, [it] Was always [Jenna’s character] In the center of this bizarre world the Ridley and Leopolds treat these crazy people with family and their schemes. Paul’s character really recognizes [they] Crazy, but he wants things from crazy people, so he is acting as if they are not and he does not go down to play.

IO 9: Its animal features touching your inspiration for aspect, I definitely get John Carpenter and Amblicin Vioce. What is the mechanics to go deeper – obviously creates unicorn where they are a combination of practical and CG and how did you want to frame them in the story? I am very happy that you were not ashamed to hide them.

Scarfman: I think it needs to be satisfied with your audience in a contemporary animal feature and especially with a movie that deliberately renews an animal. Keeping them in the shade, keeping them in the fog, keeping them unclear for a while, but at the end of the movie, they just walk in the stairs in a wide range of daylight, you know and tell you that “We’re actually going to get a good look towards this thing.”

IO 9: What did the actors have to play against all these suspicious scenes?

Scarfman: It was a combination of our things. Occasionally we had a live horse on the set, we had dolls on the set. We had really big beautiful dolls. I love the doll; They were so fun. And whenever we use dolls. It was really important to see as much practical elements as possible throughout the process, not just for the actors, but also for me to see as much as possible.

Of course there is VFX, but even if we have VFX, we had the head of our doll which was higher in the VFX illumination reference head. We still want to walk through the shots so that the actors knew where the creature would be and knew what the animal would look like in every position and how it would rotate. They have true touch; There are some shots in the movie that only dolls. This is always exciting when you realize that it is part of the puzzle of the filmmaking process for this national movie.

The death of a unicorn Open this Friday.

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