That was important to us from the beginning because we knew that people had these sort “ZOMG” reactions to the original story and it always bothered me and in some ways continues to bother me. In the end it’s a story about real people, and that became a priority for us. It would have been easy to play up the extremity of the behavior here. It was a lot harder to understand how people could get to this place. How do they get to this kind of vibe as it envelopes them and how do they get to this horrible crime that is at the heart of our story?”