![]() But when I met Alicia and she showed me what she could do, because she’s a dancer and she has full control over her body, it was like, 'Oh, this is really awesome. In an interview, when asked about the casting of Diana, Sandberg said ".I figured she would be pretty still but once I met Alicia, we met Alicia just to have her as a stunt person for whoever would play Diana. ![]() Heisserer approved of this choice, as he felt it was "huge advantage when you’re writing, because anytime you start to get lost or start to get into the weeds, you can just go back to that theme and make sure that is tied to whatever your drama or your scares are and then it kind of rights the course for you." Casting Short įor the short film the creature point had neither a name nor a backstory. While developing the film Sandberg thought about what types of person a monster like Diana would haunt and came up with the idea to make Diana a representation of Sophie's depression. Heisserer noted that they had to be careful "to roll out her mythology and explain her origins and her capabilities and, eventually, how she is vulnerable", as they weren't writing her as a typical movie monster. When she grabs Bret, I had to think about, “If he uses his flashlight like this to bang on the handle, if she grabs him when he’s up here, then the flashlight is pointed backwards creating a silhouette so that she can actually grab him.” It was really hard to figure out exactly how to get her on film." Diana was originally supposed to be more of a demonic presence but James Wan suggested that she have a human background so she could have a relationship to Sophie and add to the connection to the family. He would draw her with a rim light on her and I was like, “No, we can’t shoot it like that because that’s cheating.” So I had to do my own storyboards and really figure out how we could always keep her as a true silhouette. At first I was working with a storyboard artist. I had to storyboard all of it just to make sure that she was truly a silhouette. When asked about how challenging it was to keep Diana in the dark he said "Very challenging because I didn’t want to cheat. Sandberg said that his goal was to keep Diana's appearance in the film as a silhouette. He had intended it to be "that little short film that we had fun with", which he felt made it easier to develop the character for the feature film as "It just mostly a concept or scene or two.". ![]() Heisserer did not develop a backstory for the creature for the short film. Sophie then shoots herself in the head, and Diana disappears. However, as Diana is about to kill Rebecca, Sophie arrives and states that Diana only exists because Sophie has allowed her to exist. She reveals to Rebecca her killing of her father years before. She ignores Sophie's pleas to not hurt her kids, and continues to attack in the dark, killing two police officers. She locks Rebecca and Martin in the basement, and attacks Rebecca's boyfriend Bret, who is able to flee by activating his car headlights. Diana tries to pull Martin under the bed, but Rebecca stops her. When Sophie tries to take her anti-depressant medications, Diana knocks them aside. ĭiana continues to influence Sophie, who suggests a stay-in movie night with Martin, including Diana as "the three of us", in an attempt to proactively introduce her son to her demon friend. When Martin is staying at Rebecca's, Diana goes there and haunts them, scratching onto the floor the same name and stick figure she added to Rebecca's childhood drawing. She then haunts Sophie and Paul’s child, Martin, to the point that he is unable to get sleep anymore. Some years later, Diana appears at Sophie's second husband Paul's work place and kills him. Rebecca’s father is killed by her, though his family assume he abandoned them and Rebecca moves out as soon as she is old enough. She interferes with Sophie's intentions of trying to recover from depression, and frightens Sophie's young daughter Rebecca by taking her drawing of her family and inserting herself into it as a stick figure while rubbing out her father. The creature latches onto Sophie, staying with her for years, and kills anyone who tries to help or be with her. ĭiana then turns into a demonic, malevolent creature that can act only in the darkness. Doctors began performing experiments on Diana, but inadvertently killed her by exposing her to intense surgical-suite spotlights, instantly reducing her body to ashes. They take a picture together outside where she is covered in shadow by an umbrella. She befriends teenaged Sophie, who is hospitalized for depression. It is revealed she was once a teenager committed to a mental hospital, suffering from a serious skin condition that prevented her from being exposed to any light. Diana is a mysterious figure that attacks people only in the dark.
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