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Brian Duffield’s unique take on alien horror, No One Will Save You, is nominated in two categories: Best Streaming Premiere and Best Lead Performance (Kaitlyn Dever).
The largely dialogue-free movie didn’t initially start out that way intentionally, Duffield shares: “In Final Draft, it usually pops up if you’ve written the name before as a character that speaks, and that hadn’t happened [in the writing process yet], and that’s when I realized, ‘Oh, fuck, she hasn’t talked.’ I was 40 pages in at that point, and I knew she was about to head back home and be alone again, so…”
The ending had the potential to be more divisive than the lack of dialogue, “And as for the ending: for me, it was about Kaitlyn’s character and, I guess, two things…” Read more on that in Scott Wampler’s spoiler-filled interview with Brian Duffield.
