{"id":246438,"date":"2026-06-15T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/curry-barker-was-offered-2-million-to-rewrite-obsession-script-because-of-a-major-plot-point-why-he-said-no\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:00:06","slug":"curry-barker-was-offered-2-million-to-rewrite-obsession-script-because-of-a-major-plot-point-why-he-said-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/curry-barker-was-offered-2-million-to-rewrite-obsession-script-because-of-a-major-plot-point-why-he-said-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry Barker Was Offered $2 Million to Rewrite &#8216;Obsession&#8217; Script Because of a Major Plot Point (&#038; Why He Said No)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2230214\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Focus Features<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/curry-barker\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Curry Barker<\/strong><\/a> is explaining how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/obsession\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\"><em>Obsession<\/em><\/strong><\/a> could have become something very different.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-director got candid in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/curry-barker-obsession-interview-1236620580\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THR<\/a> about his hit indie horror movie, which is breaking box office records.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, he was asked about the issue of consent between Bear (<strong>Michael Johnston<\/strong>) and Nikki (<strong>Inde Navarrette<\/strong>) after he makes the wish, and whether there was any desire to make it clear what side the movie was on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, there was. When we were shopping this around, there were companies that told me they would give me $2 million if I just rewrote the script to make Bear a hero,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m not rewriting the script to make Bear a guy that does all the right things. It\u2019s so much more interesting that he doesn\u2019t do the right thing and instead tries to make [the relationship] work and he just keeps making bad decision after bad decision,&#8217;\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OBSESSION | Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CD69OEar6o4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe movie would have been so boring if Bear was going on a journey to figure out the lore of the One Wish Willow.\u00a0So I turned down more money to tell the story that I was more interested in telling,\u201d <strong>Curry<\/strong> added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curry<\/strong> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/15\/will-obsession-win-oscars-curry-barker-addresses-awards-campaign-has-such-a-cool-idea-for-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said he has a \u201ccool idea\u201d for a sequel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/curry-barker\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curry Barker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/movies\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Movies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/obsession\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/15\/curry-barker-was-offered-2-million-to-rewrite-obsession-script-because-of-a-major-plot-point-why-he-said-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Focus Features Curry Barker is explaining how Obsession could have become something very different. The 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-director got candid in an interview with THR about his hit indie horror movie, which is breaking box office records. During the conversation, he was asked about the issue of consent between Bear (Michael Johnston) and Nikki (Inde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}