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Damien Chazelle Helped Write This Beloved Sci-Fi Horror Sequel — I Wish He’d Directed It, Too
Despite writing the script for 10 Cloverfield Lane, Damien Chazelle turned down the director's chair to work on his own movie Whiplash.
DirectorDamien Chazelle made a huge splash with Whiplash in 2014, and he’s been a hot topic ever since. From the love letter to old Hollywood musicals that isLa La Land (and the ensuing Oscar mix-up that made pop culture history), to the polarizing but undeniable spectacle of Babylon, Chazelle is a director who’s hard to ignore and comfortable tackling all kinds of subject matter. But while the movies he’s directed so far have been pretty eclectic, his career as a screenwriter has a surprising consistency to it: outside of the screenplays he wrote for his own movies, Chazelle started his career exclusively writing horror and thrillers. In fact, he almost helmed one of the best horror sequels of the 2010s before stepping down as director in favor of Whiplash – but Chazelle's mastery of tension is still evident in his work on the screenplay for10 Cloverfield Lane.
