{
  "id": 14527632,
  "title": "‘Whalefall’ Director Brian Duffield Talks Book Changes, Test Screening Challenges and How Those ‘Alien’ Rumors Started",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/whalefall-director-brian-duffield-talks-book-changes-test-screening",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-14T20:07:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hollywood Reporter",
    "slug": "the-hollywood-reporter",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/whalefall-brian-duffield-test-screening-challenges-alien-1236730147/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The filmmaker, recently named to The Hollywood Reporter's top genre filmmakers list, discusses adapting ‘Whalefall’ alongside its Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}