'Adult Swim Yule Log' Director Casper Kelly Set To Direct More Bizarre Feature [Exclusive Interview]

Let's start with the obvious question here. How did "The Fire Place" come about? How did Adult Swim approach you to make it?

I approached them. The idea started last year, [during] the holiday season. I was watching a yule log video and a close up of a fireplace, and for some reason I got an image of legs walking in the foreground, a little blurry, and you hear dialogue. And then I thought, "Oh yeah, that would be interesting. You start on a yule log and then someone walks into this room, and then it becomes a story that you can't see. You don't see any only parts."< /p>

So that was the genesis of this one, and then I just pitched that premise to Adult Swim as a kind of 4:00 in the morning thing, like "Too Many Cooks." And then they're like, "Yeah." For some reason, I said, "Okay, that's weird because I don't know what's going to happen yet, but what do you think if we made a movie of it?" They were like, "Well, if you can do it for about the same amount of money, yeah. Okay."