Lucky McKee
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Oct 16, 2026
AnthonyHOST
But I think they did this on purpose 'cause the next one's fucking gorgeous.
NellieHOST
[ominous music] "A grieving woman desperate to have children unravels on Halloween, showing her husband her true terrifying form as a child-devouring witch." So this one's Ding Dong, directed and written by Lucky McKee, um, who directed May, The Woman, and All Cheerleaders Die, three films that I absolutely fucking love.
NellieHOST
Uh, in this cast, it's a nice and easy one.
NellieHOST
We've got Mark Center as Jack and Pollyanna McIntosh as Bobbi.
speaker_1HOST
The final Dead River book.
speaker_0HOST
Co-written with filmmaker Lucky McKee, simply titled The Woman.
speaker_1HOST
And this book just flips the entire dynamic of the previous novels completely upside down.
speaker_0HOST
It is wild.
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speaker_1HOST
But here is why we talk about the failures.
speaker_1HOST
Those misfires paved the way for his bizarre experiments, which are far more interesting and reveal a lot of heart.
speaker_0HOST
heart.Take his later collaborations with Lucky McKee.
speaker_0HOST
Look at a book like I'm Not Sam.
Nathaniel JohnsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Sammaeal NumineHOST
... we're doing 2002's May by Lucky McKee.
Nathaniel JohnsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sammaeal NumineHOST
Um, and then before we get into that, is there anything you, you did this week or watched this week that you wanted to get into?
Ryan LarsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gregory TaylorHOST
A 1998 movie called Kep Squad, and then the 2006 movie, The Woods, by Lucky McKee, I think.
Ryan LarsonHOST
Yeah.
Gregory TaylorHOST
Right?
Joel VeachGUEST
And I started writing plays and actually a play that I wrote was called Old Man.
Joel VeachGUEST
I ended up writing it into a script that was filmed later with Lucky McKee and Stephen Lang.
Joel VeachGUEST
When I started writing American Muscle as a play, just as an idea, I had this idea of an auto mechanic in debt with really complicated family dynamics with his father and his sister.
Joel VeachGUEST
And I started writing it as a play, and then I put it down for many years and was trying to get a film made for another script, but couldn't find the financing.
Alrik BursellHOST
What about process? Like, is there something in the process, like whether it's in post-production, pre-production or like on set, is there anything about that that you would change?
Joel VeachGUEST
You know, I was very fortunate to have a DP, Alex Vendler, who I'd actually worked with before.
Joel VeachGUEST
He shot Old Man with Lucky McKee and Alex has done a lot of great work, you know, and we had a shot list.
Joel VeachGUEST
I probably, as a first time, this is my debut feature.