After completing the script, Victor Salva gave his screenplay to executive producer Francis Ford Coppola, who had previously helped finance Clownhouse (1989), Salva's feature-length directorial debut. Due to the recent successes of The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense (both 1999), Salva received four offers from companies interested in the project within two days of him completing the script. Additionally, Coppola began a negotiation with United Artists and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in an attempt to sell the distribution rights to the film. According to Salva, this process in pre-production took seven to eight months and resulted in Germany financing 75% of the original budget through the production companies Cinerenta-Cinebeta and Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, and with United Artists financing the rest. Soon after, auditions began in Los Angeles.
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