Reunion director Chris Nelson discusses his new murder mystery comedy movie starring Billy Magnussen and Lil Rel Howery.
“Lil Rel Howery , Billy Magnussen , and Jillian Bell star in a wild ride of twists and turns where a high school reunion gets cut short by murder. Trapped in a snowbound mansion, they race to uncover which one of their old classmates is the killer before they’re all iced out for good. Also starring Jamie Chung , Michael Hitchcock withTyler Treese: Congrats on Reunion. The film is hilarious. Lil Rel really sets the comedic tone that everybody plays off of.
So, for me, it just was a really exciting fit and just a really good kind of pairing off of Rel. And same thing I felt like Jamie brought on too. I just felt there was something about the chemistry that they would have in a romantic comedy type of way that just felt like it would be really nice. When I spoke with Rel, it became very clear that there’s a lot of improv, and those guys really enjoyed playing off each other. He also mentioned it was like a four-week shoot.
One of the aspects I like is that there are the breadcrumbs, and everybody’s acting a bit suspicious. How does it work with collaborating with the actors? Is it mostly in the script and the editing, or do you kind of have them add in some suspicious elements in their acting as well? How do you kind of balance that?
Jillian Bell is just hilarious throughout this whole film. Uh, she has this great line, she’s like, look at me now. I’m successful. I’m wearing $62 shoes. . Uh, when you’re, when you’re working with somebody that’s so naturally, uh, talented as a com a comedian, uh, how does that kind of just help you as a director because, uh, like you kind of talked about before, you can kind of just let them play and you know, you’ll have something at the end of the day that’s usable.
Murder mysteries just seem like a really good, uh, pairing with humor. We’ve seen it with Clue and we’ve seen different varying degrees of humor. Why do you think it blends so well? Why do you think these genres kinda really have a sweet meeting spot in the middle?
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