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We really wanted to do something for ourselves. That's when we decided to do what we loved as children: make horror films. We had done the Axe Body campaign – 'How Dirty Boys Get Clean' – that pretty much set us up financially so we could get through the strike. I had been a script writer for 17 years, and I'd written for and rewritten everyone in town so I was ready for something different. In a 2009 interview with Dread Central, Daywalt described the origins of Fewdio, saying, "We were all a little bit burned out on dealing with studio execs around the time the strike hit.
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That was my goal, was to get out and work with Disney and Warner Brothers and write children's animation for TV and for film." Career Filmmaking ĭaywalt first achieved fame writing and directing short films with the horror filmmaking YouTube channel Fewdio, co-founded by Daywalt in 2007. "Because at the time, my big plan was: if I really know children's literature and the history of fairy tales, and storytelling for kids in a meaningful and deep way, and I also learn screenwriting, I can go and work with Disney.
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"My concentrations were in screenwriting and children's literature", Daywalt has stated.
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After graduating from Stow-Munroe Falls High School in 1988, Daywalt pursued creative writing at Emerson College in Boston. I knew then that I wanted to tell stories." ĭaywalt's family eventually moved to nearby Stow, Ohio, where he attended Highland Elementary School. As the credits rolled at the end, and I sat there trying to catch my breath and fully digest what I'd seen, I saw the screenplay credit. And my big sister had taken me to see the first Star Wars film. The author/filmmaker said he first realized that books and movies "were actually written and created by other human beings" at the age of 7.
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"A lot of what I do, whether it's either horror or children's lit, comes from that period in my life." "I was constantly being inundated by other worlds", said Daywalt. Growing up in a haunted house, watching horror movies with my older brothers and getting into their stash of horror magazines and comic books." ĭuring the same period, Daywalt's mother, Charlene, would often come home from work and read to him from the works of well-known children's authors, like Dr. Also, at the time – this is going back to the mid 70s, almost into the early 80s – they were reading Tolkien and lot of that, so I had that as one side of my experiences. Heavy Metal and Creepy and Tales from the Crypt. I was always getting into their comic books . He relates, "My older brothers would always let me stay up way too late on Friday nights, drink Mountain Dew, watch horror movies. ĭaywalt's older brothers, however unintentionally, fostered his interest in scary stories. It looked like ' The Munsters.'" The house had a storied reputation in the local area, having supposedly been a stagecoach stop, a brothel, and a respite on the Underground Railroad at various times. "I grew up in a house in Hudson, Ohio, that was notoriously haunted. Drew Daywalt was born in Hudson, Ohio, on January 5, 1970, the youngest of six children, to Charlene (née Bable) and Charles Daywalt.