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'Don DeLillo gave me his blessing': film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work
When Rivers received a surprise letter from DeLillo, it encouraged him to set the author’s one-act play in an adult-free, postapocalyptic world
TL;DR
- Ben Rivers received a surprise letter from author Don DeLillo.
- The letter encouraged Rivers to adapt DeLillo's one-act play.
- The adaptation is set in a postapocalyptic world without adults.