‘Fair Play’ Filmmaker Chloe Domont On Locking The Audience In Within The First Ten Minutes For Her Roller Coaster Erotic Thriller – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comAs we head into Oscar balloting on Thursday, let’s not forget about Chloe Domont‘s Fair Play which reawakened the erotic thriller, and specifically spoke to the Me-Too era.
The MRC and T-Street production went into Sundance last year under the radar and became the fest’s first big deal with Netflix scooping up the Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor movie for $20M.
The movie further propelled Domont from being a working TV episodic director on shows such as Billions, Ballers and Star Trek Discovery, to auteur status with this original screenplay she had been “compounding for years.” You can listen to our Crew Call interview: Fair Play tells the story about a promising, young, very successful couple, who are engaged to marry — except they work at the same Wall Street hedge fund.
She winds up getting a promotion over him, which leaves the man spiraling as his fiancée climbs the ladder in the boys’ club.
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