Eli Horowitz Interview: Gone in the Night
After scoring acclaim for Homecoming, Eli Horowitz is making his feature directorial debut with Gone in the Night. The mystery-thriller centers on a couple who visit a remote cabin they rented being inhabited by a mysterious younger couple and the subsequent fallout from sharing it together for one night.
Winona Ryder leads the cast of Gone in the Night alongside John Gallagher Jr., Brianne Tju, Dermot Mulroney and Owen Teague.
Related: Five Major Roles Winona Ryder Turned Down
In anticipation of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with co-writer/director Eli Horowitz to discuss Gone in the Night, making his feature directorial debut, Homecoming's future and more.
Screen Rant: I had no idea what I was getting into when I started Gone in the Night up, and I was really surprised by everything about it. How did the concept come about?
Eli Horowitz: Well, the simple, practical answer — for me, there's often deeper feelings kind of sneaking by the back door, or a side door at least, and I have to just start something very practical. So for this, it's a pretty low-budget indie movie and I, actually, 10 years ago bought this little cabin, it's a mobile home in the woods in the Redwoods that I fixed up with friends. I'm there sometimes and I rent it out sometimes and do Airbnb, so I'm always afraid I'm not that organized, somehow double booking it. That just seemed like an easy, classic genre beginning that then we could take into unexpected directions.
How did you then come up with the intricacies of this mystery, because I love the way that it plays out in a nonlinear narrative?
Eli Horowitz: That was really just trying to lay it on one step ahead, one step ahead, one step ahead. Me and my co writer, Matt Derby,
Read more on screenrant.com
