With films like “Forrest Gump” and “Back to the Future,” Robert Zemeckis and his films are a far cry from the often bleak and always existential works of Charlie Kaufman. But a random choice by one of Kaufman’s editors has connected the two together in his newest film, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”
In one “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” scene, Kaufman introduces a film-within-a-film about a cafe waitress who gets fired after her boyfriend makes a scene while she’s working. When the credits roll, Zemeckis is credited as the director. On its Twitter page, Netflix revealed that it wasn’t actually Kaufman’s idea to make Zemeckis the director of the film.