Blumhouse recently sat down with “Wish Upon” director John Leonetti, and you might be wondering what his connection to all this is. Well, his brother Matthew Leonetti was the director of photography on “Poltergeist,” and John was on set as well, working as the assistant camera. And for John, there’s no doubt about who was calling the shots on “Poltergeist.”
“The really cool thing about ‘Poltergeist’ — I’ll never forget the very first time I walked on the shooting set, there were 4 x 8 foam core boards with 8 ½ by 11 storyboards on them, and I’d never seen anything like that before. It was a very intense, very fun, very technical movie to work on. There’s a lot going on. And candidly… Steven Spielberg directed that movie. There’s no question,” Leonetti said.
“Hooper was so nice and just happy to be there. He creatively had input. Steven developed the movie, and it was his to direct, except there was anticipation of a director’s strike, so he was ‘the producer’ but really he directed it in case there was going to be a strike and Tobe was cool with that. It wasn’t anything against Tobe. Every once in a while, he would actually leave the set and let Tobe do a few things just because. But really, Steven directed it,” he added. Quelle: http://theplaylist.net/...-20170717/