Screenwriter and producer Steve Koren recalls how he and his partner Mark O’Keefe came up with the idea for CLICK. “There was a joke between me and my girlfriend,” Koren recalls. “We got into a long argument, so I picked up the remote, pointed it at her and hit the ‘mute’ button. She didn’t find my little wish amusing, but I thought a lot of people could relate.”
They started with a simple idea: “What if you could actually control your life with the remote? What if you could raise the volume of the world or lower it?” From there the story progressed. What if you could rewind your life and look back at your past? What if, instead of worrying about the future, you could fast forward and look at it? “There were many different areas for the character to explore and it was fun having him jump around while trying to maintain a consistent emotional arc,” Koren continues. “In addition to exploring the past and future to find what he wants, he learns other things about his life along the way. In the end, it’s really a movie about living in the present.”
The easy part, says Koren, was sitting around with his writing partner O’Keefe and coming up with every joke they could think of about the use of a remote. “The tougher part,” he
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