"I was working in Hollywood with the goal of being a producer. A friend of mine was producing a movie called Deadly Friend, and told me that Wes Craven was directing and needed an assistant. He asked if I would be interested in the job. I said, of course, I would love to come in and meet Wes. So, we set the appointment, and I went to Warner Brothers to meet him. He was very funny, and we clicked. The wonderful thing was that having said that I wanted to be a producer, Wes took it upon himself to include me in every aspect of filmmaking. He took me into casting sessions, to the horror of Marion Dougherty, the casting director, who was a huge casting director at the time. Assistants didn't normally get to be in the room for casting sessions. I was included at the scoring sessions, locations scouts, and he mentored me through the whole movie. We did Deadly Friend and then went on to The Serpent and the Rainbow. While filming on location in Haiti, we had so many emergencies and horrible production problems, and we got through them well together, and I think Wes just felt I had the right stuff. Then he gave me my first producing gig on Shocker."
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You produced some of Wes Craven's most iconic films, including Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. How did you first meet Wes and eventually become his main producer and creative collaborator? What worked that led to that?
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Marianne Maddalena
Marianne Maddalena (born July 7, 1962) is an American film producer, who was Wes Craven's producing partner for many years.
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