Nathan Fielder Negotiated a Kill Switch for the Elizabeth Holmes Doc
Before filming the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder negotiated a “kill switch” with A24, co-director Lance Oppenheim said. Fielder was skeptical about being able to weave a unique enough narrative.
In Oppenheim’s account, Fielder asked A24 whether it would give them money and leave them alone, with a provision in their deal that let them kill the project at any time.
That is an unusual thing to finance: not a finished film, but the right to decide there isn’t one.
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The kill switch turns skepticism into a contract term: Fielder didn’t have to pretend he already knew the story was there.
The less flattering reading is that the pitch was for money with permission to kill the project at any time. That is a generous definition of a film deal.