Production on the aptly-titled Clown kicked off in Canada in 2012, but the finished film didn't reach American audiences until 2016. They are both creative, and understand how to put a project together.’" But he also could talk about the business in a way that I, as some schmo, didn't understand or know, and immediately realized, ‘Oh, that's what successful people are.
"Obviously, there was all this talking about the creative part of the story - it being scary and funny and all that. Of course, the answer was a resounding "YES!!!" and Roth signed on as a producer. "I remember the first time I met him," Ford says. The faux trailer ended up catching the attention of Roth, who reached out to Watts and Ford, asking if they'd be interested in turning the idea into a fully-fledged feature. We had this whole idea of a body horror movie of a dad turning into a clown demon. "It would be like a prank, but we wanted to make it seem as real as possible.
The pair "decided to make a YouTube post where we would make it look like we had collaborated with Eli Roth on a horror movie," Ford recalls over a recent Zoom call with SYFY WIRE. A little over a decade ago, the filmmaker and his creative partner, Christopher Ford, found themselves a little frustrated with their Hollywood careers and wanted to take matters into their own hands.
Before Jon Watts got wrapped up in the MCU's Spider-Man, he got his start with a clown demon ravenous for human flesh.
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