Where did Dark Sky Films come in?
Gregory: Dark Sky came in because they own Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I contacted them about my documentaries and mentioned that–if they were going to be releasing another DVD in the future–I did “making of” documentaries. In 2001, I went out to Illinois where they’re based and met Greg Newman–who became one of the executive producers of Plague Town–and we got along quite well straightaway. We started talking about doing a documentary on Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was a production of MPI from the eighties that they owned. Then I started doing a lot of extras for them as well. I did Magic, the Richard Attenborough movie. I’ve just finished a feature-length documentary on Baraka. Over time, I’ve done a lot of special features for them. Guillén: Now that you’ve done both, what differentiates making a “making of” feature from making a feature? What challenges did you face in that transition? Gregory: The step wasn’t huge. It’s still basically a lot of coordination between
