I have a powerful feeling about this film and I’d like to tell you more about my vision for it.

Caterpillar is about change. It’s a story that attempts to take this theme on at every level: personal, collective, historical, biological, spiritual, technological. It asks what it would take for the most unchangeable archetype, the tyrant, to change. If someone like this can change, then so can we all. But to what degree can people actually change? And why has our species always needed change? And what will tomorrow’s changes doto us? And what even ischange?

I want to make a movie that announces exactly where we are headed; something that evokes the inevitable infinity mirror of technology and humanity. It is destined to be both the birth and death of us. I want to make a movie that speaks to this time that we are in now. It’s a crazy making moment in which we have lost the plot as a culture, a nation, and a planet. It's an era of villains, so much so that no one can even agree on who the villains are anymore. This movie is about how we got here, and what happens when we don’t do the work: the self-examination, the self-compassion, the forgiveness, the empathy, the turning to love. Leo Hopper is the world today and we, like him, have some major healing to do.

There are a lot of things that I want to stuff into this movie but ultimately, I want to make something that people really want to watch. I grew up enchanted by Spielberg and the feeling of big feelings. I love an original movie with a capital M, and I know that people miss them. So let’s make one. Let’s trojan horse an art film inside of a blockbuster. Let’s have people come for the spectacle, but leave thinking about their own lives. Let’s give them something new.

Caterpillar will be new in that it’s a singular tone - it’s suspenseful, brutal, action-packed, sometimes horrifying, a touch satirical, always playful - but it uses crowd pleasing genre conventions. My series, Search Party, was an homage to genre. It paired extreme dark and light in equal measure, as each season took on a new genre. I want this film to be an evolution of that vibe. This is an epic and ironic journey to Hell and back (and back to Hell again, oops) that believes in the total emotional reality of its funny but difficult characters. The screams are as loud as the laughs, the stakes couldn't be higher, and the twists are never what you think they’ll be.

I’m aspiring to concoct the right recipe for a cultural moment. Movies like The Substance, Saltburn, or Everything Everywhere All At Once are all examples of how to seize the public consciousness in a modern way. Today, movies come and go, and the goal has quietly become loftier. We can’t just make films anymore, we have to make culture. I want Caterpillar to take social media by storm, make younger audiences go to the theater, and be a contender on the awards circuit. It’s provocative, it’s iconic, it’s in step with the zeitgeist, and it’s built for movie stars.

I want to work with people who not only get what this is, but what this can be. I want to share the vision with collaborators who have an instinct for how to make this script, film, and packaging as undeniable as possible. I'm eager for smart notes and strong plans. I want an honest and ambitious partner. And I believe that there will be something very good waiting for us on the other side. But first, we will have to surrender, and as you will soon learn, that is no easy feat.