Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Producer Dean Altit talks in this interview about the movie Home Sweet Home Rebirth, a live-action adaptation of the hit video game from directors Alexander Kiesl and Steffen Hacker. Starring Michele Morrone (365 Days, Subservience), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia saga, The Royals), Thai-Norwegian actress Yaya Urassaya Sperbund (Brother of the Year, Fast And Feel Love), and K-Pop/K-Drama star Alexander Lee (Moorin School: Saga of the Brave, My Korean Jagiya), the film is set for release this April. Home Sweet Home Rebirth follows Jake (Moseley), a cop thrust into an alternate realm called “The Hindrance” during a deadly mall shooting. With the help of a mysterious Novice Monk (Lee), Jake must race the clock to save his wife, Prang (Sperbund), and stop an evil occultist, Mek (Morrone), from opening the Gates of Hell. The film is based on the hit survival thriller video game “Home Sweet Home” by Thai gaming company YGGDrazil, which has sold over 1 million units worldwide and has become a breakout on YouTube and Twitch, with streamers raking in more than 370 million views of gameplay across both platforms.
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00:00In any other adaptation, there is always a challenge of what you tell, what you don't tell.
00:04You only have two hours to tell a story versus a game that has been around for seven different
00:09versions. So stripping down the story and telling it in a way that will be
00:17interesting for the audience to follow. We actually end up telling a story and we decided
00:24we're going to tell the story in a way where in the first movie we will introduce the characters
00:31and the world and hopefully on the second and the third movie we will dive in deeper
00:36and starting to strip down those characters and explaining to the audience the motivation of each
00:41character and why they're doing what they're doing. I think specifically for this genre,
00:47it's very rare that you see a movie that is a horror movie with more than 600 visual effect
00:53shots. The world that we have created here is giving the audience a fantastic experience
00:59that they usually would not experience in a typical horror movie, which is very gory but
01:06bloody but rather contained. This story, Home Sweet Home Rebirth, allows the audience to travel into
01:15different realities and experience action sequences and creatures and real
01:25persons also suffering from those terrible consequences of being in the wrong time in
01:32the wrong place. So I think our movie is extremely unique in that sense. I have a fantastic relationship
01:38with the director, so the collaboration was very friendly, very mutual. We were looking,
01:45obviously, ultimately like any other producers and director, you're looking for the best possible
01:50actor for the role. I think that we end up with a very unique cast. Michele Morelni,
01:58that doesn't really usually this type of role, he plays a unique role in this movie that he's
02:04the evil, he's the villain in the movie, if you will. William Mosley brings that
02:11fatherhood, dramatic type of character. And Alex from Korea brings more of the mystical side of
02:21the world together with Yaya from Southeast Asia. So when they start reading for the role,
02:28I mean, we just looked at them like, OK, this is the one, this is who we're looking for.
02:33I think you can expect from this film an extended world to the game because the game is rather
02:41contained and time could be claustrophobic. The movie is a lot bigger than that, that allows you
02:49to travel into those different realities, experience different things, including the sound
02:57and the music that has to be, you know, has to do a huge part of it. So they can experience a
03:05journey of horror and nonstop action and a lot of scares. We have discussed this as we start
03:16introducing the world. We always thought, you know, we are going to plant the seeds of the
03:22story in the first movie, that hopefully we're going to be able to let them grow on the second
03:27and third movie and expand the world, expand the character. That's certainly the idea,
03:33and that's a big wish of mine to be able to do that.