INTERVIEWS
THIS MONTH'S INTERVIEW
Breck Eisner
director of SAHARA and FEAR ITSELF: THE SACRIFICE, talks to us about...
His Early Career and his sci-fi film RECON.
Talking with Breck Eisner, he makes you feel like an old friend. It’s easy to forget this
exuberant young man is Hollywood royalty. Yes, his father is Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner. Breck
never trades on his family name, going so far as to direct his USC thesis film RECON under the
name "Breck Jones" to avoid any possible favoritism. The eight minute tech noir thriller features
30 CGI shots including a 3D computer generated helicopter and an animated ‘memory wash’.
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LAST MONTH'S INTERVIEW
Lance Munga & Jeff Falcon Talk To Us About..
SIX STRING SAMURAI
"What if they were bowlers? Bald bowlers flipping coins? And they have bowling pins
with knives in them. That would be cool!" Lance Mungia exclaims as he explains the
geneses of the team of bowling assassins in his new film SIX STRING SAMURAI. If
the idea of killers in rented shoes sounds strange, wait until you hear some of the
other elements from his new film. "I love the idea of taking pop culture and twisting
the hell out of it. We have Rock & Roll royalty, and a cannibalistic Cleaver nuclear
family, bowler bounty hunters, and Death plays a heavy metal guitar. Just stuff that's
so bizarre, but really cool!"
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PREVIOUS INTERVIEW
By now everyone knows the legend of EL MARIACHI. Texas filmmaker Robert Rodriguez had been making short films for several years and wanted to tackle a feature. So he became a guinea pig in a medical research experiment - using the time to write a script and the money to finance the film. The result was a $7,000 action film for the Mexican home video market about a traveling guitar player who wanders into a crime infested Mexican border town looking for work and is mistaken for a notorious assassin who carries his weapons in a guitar case. Because $7,000 barely covered film cost, Robert was a one man crew - directing, operating the camera, setting up the lights, recording the (non-sync) sound, and later editing the film. The script was written to take advantage of props, locations and vehicles that he had access to. The original plan was to make three films for Mexican home video as practice before tackling Hollywood. "I thought this would be a great learning experience," Robert Rodriguez says. "If I make the movie cheap enough I can sell it to the Spanish market and get all of my money back and maybe make a couple of thousand profit. Back then, twenty-one years old, that was the dream - make a couple of grand doing what I love and learning."
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Ken Wheat Talks To Us About..
PITCH BLACK
He has co-written and directed a STAR WARS sequel, created
follow-ups to hit films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Cronenberg,
and critics are already calling PITCH BLACK "the MATRIX of the
new millennium"... this year's big break out science fiction
film. Ken Wheat and his brother Jim have written over a dozen
films in the science fiction and horror genres; notable for their
clever plotting, surprising twists, and complex characters. Their
thriller LIES is a sleeper classic, and one of my favorite films.
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