It had become one of my calling cards and someone was going to make it, whether I felt like it should be scrapped or not. Not only did I feel like “Jackals” was different enough in terms of set up and overall tone from the home invasion movies that came out after I wrote the script (and the shockingly huge number of movies incorporating cults into their plotlines over the last eight or nine years), but as I said earlier, the script had taken on a life of its own. So I had to really decide when similar projects started coming out and doing a great job with the same kind of material whether or not I should just walk away from it. And movies about satanic cults had pretty much died out at that point. So I wrote the script in 2006, which means “Ils” had not come out (here in the States), “The Strangers” had not come out, “You’re Next” had not come out. The complicated answer is: the only times I thought about shelving it were when something similar would come out. A lot of screenwriters I know always talk about the scripts that never seem to die, they get contacted a couple times a year by producers/directors/executives asking about it. The script had been so well received and had gotten so many interesting/cool people excited over the years, it always felt like something that was going to get made someday. TrunkSpace: At any point during those 10 years did you consider shelving “Jackals” and walking away from it? So when my producer, Tommy Alastra, asked me who we should be looking at to direct, I nominated Kevin. I was also working with Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan on another project (still unproduced) and they adored Kevin. He was someone I was very eager to work with and at the time and I knew what his take on the movie was. Kevin Greutert had been eager to do the movie for a couple of years (the script really did have a life of its own and had gotten around). Right after he got that going a producer got involved with “Jackals” who had access to funding and we had to move forward without Darren. But Darren was also trying to get “Abattoir” made and that was his passion project. Tobe moved onto other projects eventually and then the script kept finding new directors, some really great people, up to and including Darren Bousman, and that iteration came very close to happening as well (it got announced all over the place). But, as is usually the case in Hollywood, something just kept stopping it from happening. With Tobe onboard, we almost got the movie made three different times. Between 20, a lot of people wanted to make it, starting with Tobe Hooper. Rivet: I wrote the script in late 2006 and my reps started shopping it around in 2007. How did those 10 years ultimately become a reality? What events occurred that brought it from feature script to produced film? TrunkSpace: We read that “Jackals” was 10 years in the making for you. We sat down with Rivet to discuss the 10-year process of getting the film made, his most surreal moment during production, and what it’s like to host a Dead Right Horror Trivia Night. This time out we’re talking with writer Jared Rivet about his latest film, the thriller “Jackals” starring Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Dorff, and Jonathon Schaech. Chilling Out is where TrunkSpace talks all things horror and genre with those who work on the projects that give us the thrills and chills to keep coming back for more.
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