![]() ![]() It’s a 176-page hardcover collection of Ms. Until this year: on October 21st, On Set with John Carpenter will be released. I still have a prized hard drive full of behind-the-scenes photos that have never seen the light of day. It was, respectively, a privilege and a nightmare trying to choose which photos to include and and which to leave out. She wasn’t just recording she was storytelling. Poring over the contact sheets, I got a real sense of the energy and mood of that set. Gottlieb-Walker’s lens captured rehearsals, takes, offscreen playfulness and camaraderie. For the duration of Carpenter’s three-week shoot, Ms. ![]() Simply put, I wouldn’t have been able to tell that story without Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s set photographs. The story of how Halloween was created had been told many times on countless bonus features, but it was my job to tell it for the first time to a mainstream, prime-time cable audience. It was an incredible experience in which I got to interview all the living players responsible for the film, visit the shooting locations and, perhaps most fatefully, work with genre authorities/soundbite maestros Devin Faraci and Brian Collins. In 2010, I wrote and produced a two-hour documentary about the making of John Carpenter’s Halloween. ![]()
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