Drop director explains why he changed Meghann Fahy's role in movie's ending
Christopher Landon's latest film is the first he's directed from a script he didn't write – but he still had plenty of input into the film's narrative.
Before now, all of Christopher Landon's directing credits – including Happy Death Day and Freaky – have been for films he had also written, but his latest movie Drop represents a departure from that pattern.
The thriller – which comes after Landon departed the upcoming Scream 7 – was written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach, although Landon explained in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com that he did make a few alterations once he came on board.
"When the producer sent me the script, I read the whole thing in one sitting, and it was amazing," he explained.
"It was so fast-paced and so suspenseful, and I loved the concept. It was so clean. It reminded me of Hitchcock, but it felt really modern."
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He added: "And I was so grateful to the writers, you know, because they shared the script with me at a very early stage. It was a first draft, and so I had the opportunity to still put my writer hat on and work really closely with them and develop it even further."
Those changes included adding more backstory for the central character of Violet, played by Meghann Fahy, while also giving Brandon Sklenar's character Henry a more pivotal role in the plot.
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And he also said that some significant changes were made to how the film ends.
"[In] the original script, the movie ended in the restaurant," he said. "And there was just a whole different reason why this was all happening to her.
"And I felt like the movie needed to end in a different way. The third act of the movie needed to be something very specific and different from what they had.
"And that's really the joy of it. For me, I work with a lot of different writers on different projects now, and I think it's the advantage to being a writer yourself, is that you can think about things and see things that they may not see... it's just a lot of fun to collaborate with other people like that.”
Drop is in cinemas from Friday 11th April 2025.
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
