'Inside' Director Vasilis Katsoupis on the Challenges of Creating 'Robinson Crusoe' in a NYC Penthouse

Have you ever wondered what the concept of Robinson Crusoe would look like in a modern Manhattan apartment? Well, wonder no more! The Willem Dafoe-led psychological horror Inside tackles that very premise when an art thief gets trapped inside the home of a mark on his way out of a job. When the security system glitches Dafoe's Nemo is trapped inside the penthouse apartment of a wealthy art collector. He waits and waits for rescue to come, but none ever does.

VASILIS KATSOUPIS: As you said, it's a very multi-layered film, and it's designed this way. For me, I really like to engage in a dialogue with a viewer and not to dictate the viewer what to see. So I really like to leave it open, to connect the dots and make the best out of it. For me, what I really want, what I really like the viewer is to experience than just watch the film.

KATSOUPIS: Okay, yeah. It's a funny journey because I think I got this idea 11 years ago, the first time. I definitely found an email that I sent as a brief timeline to some friends, talking about this idea from 2011. So I didn't remember it to be that old. It came, the idea, from a trip to New York that, for me, looking at these buildings was something that amazed me.

And this is how we worked on Inside as well. So Giorgos got in touch with this amazing and brilliant scriptwriter, Ben Hopkins. We talked about the idea. We talked about the treatment that he wrote, it's a beautiful script. Then, it got financed, and then we talked with Willem. Willem liked the script and liked the presentation that we did for him. He got on board and the rest is history.

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