Looking at his entire filmography up to that point, Scott Cooper hardly jumped out as the ideal candidate to helm an R-rated supernatural horror movie that boasted master of the fantastical Guillermo del Toro as one of the producers.
The filmmaker had steered Jeff Bridges to an Academy Award win for Best Actor in country music drama Crazy Heart, collaborated with Christian Bale twice on crime thriller Out of the Furnace and revisionist Western Hostiles, while he also oversaw Johnny Depp’s finest performance in years after the star buried himself in prosthetics to play Whitey Bulger in Black Mass.
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