"Larry Kasdan is a storyteller with a fabulous sense of humor and an instinctive ability to make dramatic choices," says Stephen King. "He’s not afraid to work on a big canvas with a lot of characters. I think that he may have been attracted to the idea of making Dreamcatcher because it’s a story that goes back and forth between humor and horror. This is something that we’ve seen in Larry ever since the opening shot in The Big Chill, which appears to be somebody dressing up for a big party to the tune of Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine,’ then the camera pulls back and you realize that this is a corpse that’s being dressed for burial. And that is maybe the essential Lawrence Kasdan; someone who’s able to play both sides of the fence."
His versatility allowed Kasdan to deftly negotiate the film’s multilayered landscape. "The great thing about this movie," says Timothy Olyphant, "is that the moments when you’re laughing and you’re nervous and you’re scared and you’re saddened and it’s tragic…are all in one scene. The fact that all hell breaks loose is a source of fun, but at the heart of it is a great story about friends who have a chance to be heroes again, to live like they haven’t lived since they were kids."
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