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Diane Edited by Bruce Bennett of the Westerner™
Magazine
Franklin Bruce: We haven’t spoken for a while and I
know you have a lot going on. What are
your current projects?
on The Diane: Well… the last time we spoke I was
finishing my second book. After the book
Amityville came out, I did a lot of autograph
conventions. I don’t know, when we spoke
Murders last, if I had worked on the film The Final
Interview, but I know that I was starting to
work again with the film Waking Nightmare.
and Waking Nightmare is a film that still hasn’t
come out. But I can’t wait for people to see
Maturing it because my character is so different from
what my audience has seen from me in the
past. I play a suburban housewife in the
as an mold of a Stepford Wife, whose daughter
commits murders while sleepwalking. I’m
an integral part of the plot, which makes it a
Actress very juicy role.
I worked with actor David Naughton from
American Werewolf, Jamison Newlander
from Lost Boys, who plays my husband, and
Shelley Regner, Ashley from Pitch Perfect,
who plays my daughter. We had great
chemistry on set, and I think audiences are
going to have a lot of fun seeing the story
unravel. It has not been released yet.
In the meantime I did a thriller-art film
called The Final Interview, which is written
and directed by Fred Vogel. It takes place
during the 80s and is about a washed-up
newscaster (Grainger Hines) who is given
one last chance to bring back his career,
through my character, his ex-wife and news
director (Diane Franklin). He then
broadcasts live the final interview of the most
notorious serial killer inmate (Damien
Maruscak) before he goes to the electric

