Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert aka “The Daniels” took the CCA by storm yesterday with their crazy, innovative “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The multifaceted multiverse movie took home Best Picture, Director, and three more awards at the show last night. They’re on a roll with indie film fans and critics. (Not clear yet how the older Academy will deal with them.)
The Daniels are Emerson College graduates, friends since school, and are truly nice, humble guys. They love to talk about film, and especially editing. The editing in “EEAAO” is superb, with images inside of other images, collages and kaleidoscopes. It’s very weird that they weren’t short listed by the Academy for Visual Effects. Go figure.
And guess what? The Daniels are indie no more. Even though A24 released “EEAAO,” the next film will be at Universal Pictures. The guys signed a five year deal back in August. They’re already writing the first film in the deal, Scheinert says the new film will have at least surface connections their $60 million hit. He told me, “We don’t want to repeat ourselves, but we know what fans expect.” In other words, no more hot dog fingers, or bagels, but new ideas just as good if not better.
Before I finished talking to Daniel Kwan, he ran into “Better Call Saul” winner Giancarlo Esposito They hit it off like a house on fire. and the new movie hasn’t been cast yet. Stay tuned!
