Mobile Mayhem

Director Tod Williams tells us about destroying the world on a budget in Cell

We live in an “always on” world. We get up, check our Twitter and email. We text our friends. We take selfies and share every intimate detail. For Cell director Tod Williams, it’s all a bit of a nightmare.

“Cell was sent to me with John Cusack already attached and that was something that really attracted me,” says the director, previously best known for directing Paranormal Activity 2. “And I began to feel more and more strongly about the concept, more personally connected to it and the thinking around connectivity and how it’s kind of a horrible, terrible thing in many ways… There seems to be a belief that connectivity is automatically good. I’m not sure that’s what we’re put on Earth for.”