интервью с Майклом Брандтом и Дереком Хаасом
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Finally, I wanted to ask you guys about your next film Overdrive. You're in Paris right now prepping the movie, is that correct?
Haas: Yes, we're shooting right now. We start shooting on Monday. We're in Paris and we're thrilled. It's one of these things where we wrote a movie set in Marseille, France, and we're going to shoot it in Marseille, France, and no one told us we had to shoot it in Montreal so we're thrilled. It's funny you always get the note that you roll your eyes at from studios which is, “make the location more of a character in the script.” This one really is and it’s awesome that we're getting to shoot it there.
Michael, coming off The Double, did you have any interest in possibly directing this yourself or are you guys pleased with having Antonio Negret as director?
Brandt: Well we're definitely pleased with Antonio. I mean I think I needed to take a breath personally. When this was coming together we were still in post on The Double. This was coming together pretty quickly and I wanted to take a breath and just take a shot of producing something with Derek. Antonio came in and wowed us with what he wanted to do, and quite honestly I want to make a movie from the other side here. But we're trying to give Antonio everything we possibly can, at the same time we have Pierre Morel as a producer, and I'm a producer, and Derek's a producer. So we have three filmmakers here supporting Antonio and I should also say that what is unbelievable about the experience we're going through right now is there in nobody else we have to answer to. Our executive producer is putting the money together and then we are the studio. We are the ones answering every question, there's no suit above us, we're making the movie we want to make and this is a really great way to do it.
Are you excited to start working with Karl Urban and Ben Barnes who are playing the leads in the film?
Haas: Yeah we're thrilled man. I mean that's another thing. A lot of times on these movies you have to play these games of, this actor makes this amount of money, that actor makes that amount of money, and instead on this one it was like, let's get the two best actors for this roles playing brothers and we're thrilled.
Brandt: They’re actors on the rise.
As you mentioned, they’re playing brothers and I think it’s a good bit of casting because Urban and Barnes actually look like they could be related. A lot of times in movies they’ll cast two actors as siblings who look nothing alike but these guys really could be brothers, don’t you think?
Brandt: Yeah they go well together, I mean if we do this right it's going to have that Newman/Redford feel and you're going to want to see these guys in other movies.