Director Adam Sigal spoke with Digital Trends about his new film, Chariot and working with JohnMalkovich.
Adam Sigal’s journey to Hollywood did not follow the typical script. While many actors and screenwriters wait tables or park cars to make ends meet, Sigal became a private investigator at the age of 19 upon his move to Los Angeles. The life of a P.I. can be tiresome and lonely, but Sigal used this opportunity as a way to learn about human behavior and inspire more creativity in his writing.
In a previous interview, you said this film was with you for around five years. Between delays and COVID issues, did anything in the story change? Did you have to add or subtract any characters or plot points? Was this the exact story you wanted to tell? It was a very strange experience. You know, a lot of times at this level of the industry, you kind of beat your head against a wall and you make offers to agents and they get ignored. So with John, I was introduced to him directly by a friend, and she said I’m going to send him the script. I was like, “Oh sure, I’ll hold my breath.” Then she said, “John loved the script and he wants to zoom with you.” I was expecting somebody with a John Malkovich pop-up mask on there, but it’s John.
In the film, there’s the constant use of the color red. For example, Dr. Karn’s hair, Maria’s dress, and the lights in the hotel. You once referred to this project as a “Terry Gilliam-esque kind of look at the afterlife.” Was the red an ode to 12 Monkeys? You have an interesting career as you were once a private investigator. You don’t see many people go from being a P.I. to a screenwriter. How did you settle on that job? Did you need a paycheck at the time, and that’s why you became a private investigator?
No, that’s fine. I mean, it’s true. It’s not a wound. Honestly, it’s not even that they did a bad job. It’s just that my work is so strange and it’s so unique that I don’t just write a horror film or a thriller and hand it to a director. That’s easy. They can just go, “Oh yeah, it’s all here on the page. Done. Easy.” I realized that after the first two things I wrote and handed off, it just was too weird. They weren’t getting it.
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