Maniac's director talks Kaufman influence

In news not too shocking, Cary Fukunaga--currently showrunner for the Kaufmanesque Maniac on Netflix--has confirmed Charlie as an influence, but the film he names in this Den of Geek interview is a little surprising.

Like Kaufman's 2004 romance classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Maniac features plenty of scenes within the architecture of the human brain and even deals with a man and woman whose consciousnesses just can't seem to be separated. [...] Maniac director/showrunner and future Bond director Cary Fukunaga confirmed that these Kaufman influences were very much intentional.

Interestingly it's not Eternal Sunshine that Fukunaga brings up but another Kaufman film (and the first he directed), Synecdoche, New York

"Synecdoche, New York is what we would have preferred to have as a budget and a timeline of the show to explore until everyone grew old," Fukunaga says. (Source)

I watched the first episode last night. It's pretty good, but the Kaufman comparison will probably drive Charlie a little nuts. (From a 2016 interview: “Yes. I sometimes see things and think ‘Oh, that may have been influenced by me,’ and people tell me that they’ve been influenced by me. But I’ve also seen critics say ‘This is a Charlie Kaufman-type movie, and so-and-so made it.’ And it’s like… why do they get to make Charlie Kaufman movies and I don’t? I think about that all the time.”)

 

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