Then, we did The Warrant with INSP, and that was such a success for them. Then came Red Stone, and I really got to delve into the character. But Boon is where we kind of busted it open, where I got to call in all my friends, from Tommy Flanagan to Jimmy Madio to JPG [John Patrick Jordan] to Christiane Seidel, who’s fantastic, Christina Ochoa. You know, all these actors that I think are so fantastic and we go, “Hey, let’s go play. Давайте повеселимся." Demetrius Grosse just came in and destroyed it … Pat Monahan, the lead singer for Train, opens the film. You know, we’ve talked about being in movies together for years.
So now Ruve and I get to raise the financing. Do it our way. Make a great film at a good cost and now put it out to the market and see how it does. I’m really excited that, you know, I’m not just the actor. I get to have the creative say with my wife and how to do these things, along with my other producing partner Jason Starne and Derek Presley, who wrote and directed these with me. It’s a great time for me. I love doing my own stuff like this. And you know, I keep saying if I never do a film for anybody else the rest of my life, I’m fine. If I can just do them with the team that we’ve created now and with Cinedigm backing us, I’m blessed beyond belief.
In your collaboration with Derek, how did you write the film together? Do you bounce ideas off of each other and say, “I’ll take this scene and you take that scene?” Take us into the writing process of Boon.
I drive Ruve crazy. I’ll wake up in the middle [of the night] and say, “Honey! I got this great idea for a film.” I don’t really have the talent or the time to sit down on a computer and just bang out pages because we got five kids and I’m always acting in something or I’m coaching something. Derek is like this wunderkind. With the script that we’re writing right now, I came up with this idea about a Cain and Abel in the West type of story, and really, it’s brutal, you know, fantastic stuff. It’s been in my head for years, and I pitched it to Derek and said, “OK, let’s start working on it.” And then, we have these sessions for hours and we’ll just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and all of a sudden, the next morning, I’ll have 15 pages sent to me. Как вы думаете? Здорово. Давайте продолжим. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Another 15 pages.
This one, we wrote Boon so fast. We’re writing this one [Cain and Abel story] called Faith. We started writing it really about five days ago. We’re already just past page 50. So we’ll have the first draft ready, probably by Friday afternoon, to send over to Cinedigm to look at it. We work really fast and we know that we got something really good going. He’s my director and co-writer. I’m his star, and Ruve is the one who goes and finds the financing and makes sure that the cast is as great as it can possibly be. Jason Starne does all the magic behind the curtain. He’s the Wizard of Oz for us. It’s a great combination. Then, we have Cinedigm backing us.
I want to keep making films like this for years and years to come, and put our kids in it or more friends in it and kind of make them Mercury players like Orson Welles did all those years ago. In this last film that I did, The Warrant, which we just wrapped Saturday, there are certain people from that crew that I want to pluck. Now, we’re building a team.
I remember in Flags of Our Fathers, I was talking to one of the guys there and he goes, “Yeah, I’m one of the new guys on Clint’s team.” I’m like, “Oh, really? Is this the first one?” He goes, “I’ve been with Clint for 13 years, but Jim’s been with him for 27 years, and Paulette’s been with him 28 years.” That’s the way he built his company with Malpaso, and the McDonough Company is trying to do the exact same thing, building with players that we love working with and making great stories that the audience wants to see.
Do want to revisit this character for the third time?
Oh yeah, Nick’s awesome. He’s the onion with a gun. You know, you just keep on peeling off these awesome layers like, “Oh, didn’t know that about him. Oh gosh, he’s tough. Oh, he’s a sweetheart of a guy. Boy, he can fight.” So it’s all these things. [For the next movie], we’re going to set it in Chinatown and he goes back to his sensei, and all hell breaks loose after that. Then, we have another one where he finally gets away from it all, goes out to Martha’s Vineyard for the fourth film.
Мы всегда думаем о том, что новая область, которую мы можем поставить Ник Бэн в том, где он выходит из воды, но все еще убегает от прошлого. Но прошлое, конечно, ловит его каждый раз. Мы играли с ним как сериал, возможно, или просто как колесо, где мы просто продолжаем делать эти фильмы. В любом случае, у меня есть мяч, играющий на Ник Бэн, потому что есть много меня в Ник-Боне и [в] ребята, с которыми я вырос, особенно обратно в Бостон и Кейп-Код. Они как этот парень. Он всегда пытается сделать правильные вещи, а иногда, делая правильные вещи нелегко. Ник один из тех парней, кто готов сделать это, и я люблю это о нем. Boon _will выпуск в театрах Andon-Demand и Digital 1 апреля 2022 года.
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