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“#Forever Purge, Dracula, and More \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"Blumhouse<\/p>\n

Jason Blum\u00a0<\/strong>isn\u2019t done with The Purge<\/strong><\/em>. Although\u00a0The Forever Purge<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>was once billed as the fifth and final installment in the series<\/a>, the producer isn\u2019t ready to let the hit series go. And based on the ending of the latest installment, there are still more stories to tell.<\/p>\n

As for the present,\u00a0The Forever Purge\u00a0<\/em>is one of the bigger stories in the series. It opens the world up more, and this time the story takes place outside of a city landscape and in the state of Texas. Blum considers it the best of the franchise. In the beginning, though, people doubted the first movie would even work, let alone lead to four sequels.<\/p>\n

Recently, Blum talked to us about the evolution of\u00a0The Purge<\/em>, how he tries to lead at Blumhouse, and why he was understandably more worried about other matters than movie theaters returning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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\nIt\u2019s funny talking to you about the fifth\u00a0Purge\u00a0<\/em>movie. I interviewed you for the first one, and at the time, you said there was a lot of doubt whether it would work.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was a long time ago. It was the first movie I did for Universal. Universal\u2019s never released a $3 million movie in the history of the company, being Universal. So, just that was like, wait, we\u2019re going to spend $30 million to open a movie that cost $3 million? That made no sense. The movies are politically charged a little bit, which always makes everyone a little antsy. I\u2019m glad they did, though. The rest is history, as the saying goes.<\/p>\n

Does that still make people antsy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look what happ<\/a>ened to The Hunt<\/em>. I mean, it\u2019s complicated.
\nAfter the success of the first movie, did the franchise become what was originally imagined?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even after the success of the first movie, I never thought I\u2019d be talking to you about the fifth movie. And by the way, hoping we make a sixth movie. James has said, \u201cThis is the last movie.\u201d I\u2019m going to try and talk him into another movie. I think the franchise has been a great comment on the hollowness of the American Dream. The American Dream is great for a very small handful of people, but there\u2019s really a lot of untruth in the American Dream. I think each Purge<\/em> has touched on that.<\/p>\n

The Purge<\/em> is about a society without rules for a certain amount of time. This is about a society without rules, always. So, all the rules are out the window. There is no structure anymore. It\u2019s just total anarchy, which for me is a lot of fun. So, it\u2019s my favorite one. I think it\u2019s super scary and the craziest one we\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n

Speaking of anarchy, would you say that the first sequel really set the tone for the rest of the franchise?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wise observation. Because that is the movie, the second movie, is what the third, fourth, and fifth movies were born out of, not the first movie. And the reason for that is that the first movie was about this thing called The Purge, but you never got to see it. It was all inside a house. It was strictly because of the budget. We found the budget to show the movie.
\nOnce we figured out that the audience was receptive to an idea of a movie about a society where there were no laws for 12 hours a year, once a year, then we could spend a little bit more money. We could actually show what we imagined, or what James imagined, would be happening on Purge night. And that\u2019s what we did in the second movie. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done in every subsequent movie is, show what\u2019s happening outside on the Purge, not just inside. So, the original Purge is over here. And then, the four subsequent movies are over here. So, I think you\u2019re very right to say that.<\/p>\n

Five movies in, what\u2019s still challenging about this franchise?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The budget. All of our movers are low-budget. The low budget is three million, or eight million, or 15 million. Compared to a studio movie, they\u2019re all low-budget. So, it doesn\u2019t surprise me, but if we just had a little bit more money, we could just do this thing so much better. It doesn\u2019t seem to matter. However much money you have, you always need a little bit more. So, that\u2019s always the biggest challenge in our movies is, trying to fit a big story into a small budget.<\/p>\n

The last time we talked was for David Koepp\u2019s movie. You were confident movie theaters and audiences would return, but was that ever a real concern?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was nervous about other things than returning to the theater, to be honest, I was worried about my kids going to school without a fucking mask on their face. That\u2019s what I was really nervous about, to be honest with you. But I was sad, and I missed the movies. I missed the movies. I never realized how much I took going to the movies for granted until I didn\u2019t go for a year. And then, I really realized it.<\/p>\n

Especially, scary movies. We really built The Purge<\/em>, Halloween<\/em>, and others for the screen. You want to be scared. So, the way to be scared is to watch these movies in a theater, in a big dark room with a lot of other people, with your phone in your pocket, not on your lap. They\u2019re just not as good any other way. They\u2019re surely not as scary. So, that\u2019s something that I missed. I wouldn\u2019t say it kept me up at night, but I missed it.
\nI felt the same after returning to the theaters for the horror movie,\u00a0The Night House<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What was that? Is that good?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s with Rebecca Hall, and it\u2019s very good.\u00a0Have you been back to the movies yet? What have you seen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019ve been back now a couple of times. I saw Boss Baby 2<\/em> with my daughter in the movie theater. We did a test screening of The Black Phone<\/em>. So, that was in a full movie theater in Burbank. I\u2019ve been twice now.<\/p>\n

You talk to some producers, they almost don\u2019t even seem like film fans, but you\u2019re one of those producers that strikes the balance between film fan and the business side. What\u2019s that like for you, striking that balance?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel really lucky about that. I agree with you. I love movies and TV shows. I love them. I\u2019m watching this show, Your Honor<\/em>, have you seen it? Bryan Cranston show?<\/p>\n

Good show.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s good until the eighth episode. Have you seen the whole thing?<\/p>\n

Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As soon as he kills the person in the boatyard, the show falls apart. It\u2019s so dull. I was so pissed because I really loved the show until that moment. I just saw Dirty John<\/em>, season one and two. Did you see that? Dirty John<\/em> and Dirty:\u00a0The Betty Broderick Story<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t seen season two yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Season two is amazing. Amazing. Anyway, that\u2019s right. When I have free time, with my kids, and when my kids are asleep, I watch TV or I read a book. I love stories. I actually don\u2019t read a book, I listen to a book. I more often do audible books. I\u2019m listening to a book about the Sacklers right now. They did the opioids.<\/p>\n

I feel very lucky because I hear other people in my position and I feel like, you\u2019re right. I\u2019m just very excited by stories. I need them to breathe. There are a lot of people in my position who just don\u2019t feel that way. If you don\u2019t feel that way, why are you doing the job? It\u2019s a hard job, do something else.<\/p>\n

So, I appreciate you saying that. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true of writers and directors, but I think that is true of producers. It\u2019s weird. Most writers and directors, love stories. But producers, they\u2019re on the bubble. A lot of executives are really on the bubble. Agents, too, which is strange.<\/p>\n

When you run a company as big as you do and being in a leadership position, what qualities and values do you try to bring to the office every day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transparency is very important. Try and be as transparent as possible. Optimistic. You don\u2019t want to be led by someone who\u2019s down every day or pessimistic about the world every day. It\u2019s too debilitating. I think those are probably the two most important categories.<\/p>\n

I think, for me, making sure I listen to people. I don\u2019t always do what people\u2019s opinion is, but I try really hard to get the people\u2019s opinions who worked for me, to hear them. The final thing is that I empower my executives in the same way I empower my directors, which is I don\u2019t micromanage our directors. I try and do the opposite, which is to turbocharge our directors.<\/p>\n

Meaning, I give them a ton of notes. I give them a ton of ideas of casting. I give them a ton of input, but I let them choose what they\u2019re going to do and not do. I let them choose. When you do that, the director is more likely to do what you want because it\u2019s not a battle of wills.<\/p>\n

The battle of wills, the director always wins, right? I always say that. Listen, I\u2019m never going to force you to do anything. I give, on the film side, I almost never have final cut. I give it to our directors on the low-budget movies. On big-budget movies, that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

I do the same thing with our executives. I give our executives a lot of freedom. There\u2019s an executive, just to give you an example, who really loves a project and think it\u2019s great. If I don\u2019t get it, I say, \u201cGo for it.\u201d Until they pick a few and they don\u2019t work, then they\u2019re probably not working at the company anymore. I let them go unless they screw something up really badly, as opposed to holding a tight noose around people.<\/p>\n

How far off do you usually think in the future for Blumhouse? Ever think five years ahead?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think that far with our franchises. With Halloween<\/em>, I thought five years ahead. Because I knew we were going to do three movies. I was really thinking about that. I try not to think that far when we\u2019re deciding on whether to greenlight a television show or a movie. I just try and put the noise out and try and get as much information as I can. And then, I go to sleep at night and think, should we do this? Or should we not? I try not to think about the future too much because I think that can kind of paralyze you. So, I guess the answer is, in some ways I do, in some ways I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Speaking of franchises, Happy Death Day<\/em>, the sequel was excellent. S<\/strong>till any hope for a third movie?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not giving up. That\u2019s like the next Purge movie. There\u2019s nothing official, but I felt the same way. I think Chris Landon\u2019s one of the most talented filmmakers we\u2019ve ever worked with. We continue to work with. And I want to continue that franchise in some way. It\u2019s what happens when the box office really falls off on a second movie, it\u2019s much more challenging to keep it going, but I\u2019m going to try. I\u2019ve got some ideas up my sleeve.<\/p>\n

Is Dracula<\/em> with Karyn Kusama still moving along, too?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I just texted her this morning. I\u2019ll say this, it\u2019s in very active development, so we\u2019re getting very close.<\/p>\n

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The Forever Purge<\/em> hits theaters on July 2, 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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