“Some of the earliest origins of the stage play were my love of the horror genre on screen and psychological thrillers,” Stephen Karam shares about the cinematic roots of his Tony Award-winning stage play “The Humans.” Five years after the drama opened on Broadway, Karam has adapted and directed the work into a new A24 film, bringing the DNA of the material full circle. “The way to make it a movie was so clear to me,” he continues, in part because he had “a lot of cinematic thoughts” “even when writing the play.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Karam drew on a number of theatrical movie adaptations as sources of inspiration while he developed “The Humans.” Since “The Humans” is Karam’s directorial debut, he looked to Oscar winner Mike Nichols’ first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” which he says “feels very open to me” despite its origins as a stage play.
Karam drew on a number of theatrical movie adaptations as sources of inspiration while he developed “The Humans.” Since “The Humans” is Karam’s directorial debut, he looked to Oscar winner Mike Nichols’ first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” which he says “feels very open to me” despite its origins as a stage play.
- 11/23/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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