James Wan was scouting YouTube talent before it became a film-industry trope
Variety reports that James Wan has been scouting YouTube breakout talent for feature films for decades, through his production studio Atomic Monster. The excerpt identifies Lights Out as the first movie made at the studio and connects David Sandberg with making it. Wan's example complicates accounts that present online creators' route into feature filmmaking as a sudden development: the scouting was already happening inside a production company.
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The example connects YouTube breakout talent with feature-film production.
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One studio's practice does not establish a general pipeline for all online creators.
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So “nothing new” is a useful correction to any account that treats the path as spontaneous.