After his work on the Saw franchise, and a directorial triumph with Upgrade, the
Australian genre artisan enters the dark universe of classic monster films
Late at night after a full 15-hour day
shooting, Leigh Whannell is sitting in a plastic folding chair in the car park of Sydney’s Fox Studios looking contemplatively at sound stage two.
Nearly 20 years ago he was a struggling actor and aspiring filmmaker who had just received the phone call he thought was going to change his life.