Sometimes, actors and filmmakers have to stretch the truth to get their big break. For example, if young actors are asked whether they can ice skate or ride a horse, the answer is always yes. In the case of MCU Spider-Man director Jon Watts , it was concocting a fake trailer , circa 2010, for a child-eating clown movie called Clown , as if it belonged to horror connoisseur Eli Roth.

Luckily, when Roth caught wind of the gambit that Watts and his co-writer, Christopher D. Ford, conceived, he was feeling generous, not litigious. After all, he was only a few years removed from making Thanksgiving , one of the five faux-trailers to be featured in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse . Roth then asked Watts and Ford if they had a feature-length script for Clow

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