‘Great Moments’ Removed From ‘Escape The Undertaker’ Movie

Ben Simms, director of the ‘Escape The Undertaker’ interactive movie on Netflix, has spoken about “great moments” being removed.

The idea of the movie is that viewers/players take New Day through the Undertaker’s haunted house, with choices to make along the way, which is where the “interactive” element comes in.

The movie includes a fight scene, but according to Simms, “great moments” were cut from it as it had to be toned down due in part to the target age demographic.

Speaking with Coming Soon, Simms said:

“I really enjoyed choreographing and shooting the fight scene. Having characters that are essentially their own stunt doubles was such a luxury. We had an incredible stunt team working in conjunction with the performers that knew their capabilities and how to push those. As a result of the timing between choices and the age demographic, we ended up really having to tone down some of the fight and lost some great moments to time… Hopefully, someday there will be a version of the full sequence.”

When asked to name the most challenging aspect of creating the movie, he replied:

“For a number of reasons, we were under a very tight timeline. Luckily the talent are all live performers so that was a huge plus. Our incredible crew was able to build and light every scene so we could essentially shoot almost as if it was a live show, yet still maintain high production value as well as the look and feel of a movie. In any production, you’ll always have budget and timeline challenges, but this was easily the fastest I’ve shot anything of scope.”

Escape The Undertaker released on Netflix on October 5.

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