Daniels on Creating the World of Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniels and producer Jonathan Wang discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once during our recent series Verse Jumping with Daniels, moderated by FLC Programmer Tyler Wilson. In their second featurefilm collaboration, Daniels evoke everyone from Wong Kar Wai, Harmony Korine, and Stephen Chow and everything from video games, YouTube algorithms, wire fu, Japanese anime, late 1990s Hollywood nihilism, and more. Golden Globe Winner Michelle Yeoh delivers a careerdefining performance as Evelyn Wang, a firstgeneration ChineseAmerican living above her laundromat business with her aging father (James Hong), her teenage daughter (Stephanie Hsu), and her kind but painfully naive husband (Golden Globe Winner Kay Hwee Quan). Amid an IRS audit (spearheaded by a nearly unrecognizable Jamie Lee Curtis) that reveals the cracks of her family and livelihood, Evelyn plunges into a multiversal war of verse jumpers that puts the fate of every universe in her hands. This hardly describes the gagaminute, gleefully m