Charlie Kaufman joined The Hollywood Reporter ‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast for a rare interview about the making of 2008’s Synecdoche, New York — his dazzling directorial debut.

Kaufman, 66, reinvigorated Hollywood at the turn of the millennium with a series of surreal, hilarious and deeply philosophical screenplays for films like Being John Malkovich , Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar).

As he explains on the episode, Spike Jonze, who directed Malkovich , was meant to direct the project, which was inspired by a prompt from then-Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal, who asked the duo if they would consider making a horror film.

Charlie Kaufman joined The Hollywood Reporter ‘s It Happened i

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