Coming off the opening weekend of her latest starring role, Alison Brie is preparing to step behind the camera for her next project.
The 2x Golden Globe nominee recently revealed that she’s making her feature directorial debut on a horror script she co-wrote with Alice Stanley Jr., which she describes as being “female-forward” with “very fun energy.”
“While we were writing it, I felt like I was writing it to direct it,” she told Marie Claire. “I could see every shot in my head.”
Brie added, “I think women carry a lot of self-doubt and we have a desire to make everything perfect before we attempt something, or we learn everything we can learn. You want to really check the boxes and go, am I prepared for this? And at a certain point you have to just take the leap and believe in yourself.”
Stanley, who previously wrote for Busy Philipps’ E! talk show Busy Tonight in 2019, made Out In Hollywood’s Out Loud List last year for her unproduced TV pilot script Twin Pinks.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco in ‘Together’
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Brie, who previously directed a 2019 episode of her Netflix series GLOW, most recently starred alongside Dave Franco in the Michael Shanks-written/directed body horror Together, which premiered Friday in theaters.
After Patrick Henry Phelan alleged in a lawsuit that the film is a “blatant rip-off” of his 2023 indie film Better Half, which Shanks, Neon and WME have denied, Brie addressed the accusation in her interview.
“This is a sad reality of the business, unfortunately these types of claims come up all the time,” Brie told Marie Claire. “Our screenwriter wrote the first draft of this script in 2019, a year before WME ever received the other script. We have an extensive paper trail, and we look forward to showing the court that these claims are frivolous.”
