Karen Gillan plotting secret directing project with Mike Flanagan
The Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star previously worked with the moviemaker on his 2013 horror Oculus and they have reteamed for upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck - and Karen has now revealed she's hoping to step behind the camera to direct "one of my own creations" in a joint venture with Flanagan.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: "Oh gosh, this is going to be so annoying. I can't actually talk about what it is, but I'm teaming up with Mike again on one of my own creations, which is really exciting.
"Something that I will direct for sure, perhaps act in at the same time. I don't know how I do this to myself, but here we are again.
"That will be my main focus next. I have a few other things in development that are my original ideas. It's more of a focus on original stuff right now."
Karen added that she's keen to direct more projects and she also wants to learn how to edit films.
She explained: "What I love and want to do more of is filmmaking - in the sense of creating the story, filming it, directing it, maybe being in it as well, editing it or with an editor.
"I don't know how to edit myself, but being in that part of the process is amazing. That is where I definitely see my career headed now. It feels like I'm in a little bit of a new chapter."
Karen went on to reveal she's taken inspiration from the directors she's previously worked with including Flanagan and James Gunn.
She said: "I've gotten to work with so many directors and so many brilliant ones, so I've taken all kinds of little things that I never would've known about.
"One of the best directors to work with actors that I've experienced is James Gunn. He's so good with actors. He's really respectful of the work that actors do, which really just feels nice.
"He's one of those brilliant football coaches, where he's a different coach to each actor. [That's] an exercise in psychology. Who needs what and when? How do I give it to them? He is absolutely amazing at that."
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