And so they’re like, ‘Hey, can you come up with some additional titles or title suggestions?’ I came up with a bunch of other ones and they didn’t go with any of those. So when we shot the movie, Reactor was on the slate for every scene and then we realized, you know, we’re now at a power dam, filming this movie. The name was always Reactor and took place at a nuclear power plant and the main character sort of was the reactor to the situation.
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I went to a bunch of those and I was really beating the bushes trying to get tthis movie made. I used to go to these speed dating Pitch Competition type things, where you get like five minutes with each person. This movie was like the textbook screenwriter running around town trying to get their movie made. Jared: For eight years, I was running around Hollywood trying to get this script, Reactor, trying to get it made. I’m always interested in how people settle on the titles of films. We had a lot of good people on the team, the producers, the towns people that live there and the people that work at the dam, they were just awesome and kind of gave us the run of the dam. Our DP was great, Brandon Cox, he moves fast and was still able to make it look big. Yeah, we hustled to get as much as we did. Let me tell you, you would not be able to tell that you only shot that in like 10-11 days. You just shoot and make sure you’re getting all the beats and telling the story and, of course, putting as much style as you can in. And that really puts a lot of pressure on you. Next thing I know, we have only 10 or 11 days to shoot the entire movie. It was sort of one thing after another and I think we started off with 20-something days to shoot, then like 17, then 14. I would have loved to have a few more days, but the budget wasn’t in the cards for that. Jared: A lot of it, I think has to do with actor availability.
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It was a fast shoot, so I think the inspiration was just to make sure we have a full movie by the end of the shoot. We had done a lot of preparation, but of course, when you get there and actors are still getting made up and you’re running out of time. We were really just trying to get all the coverage. Jared: Not so much during shooting just because it was such a tight schedule. Did you use any films for inspiration in shooting it as well? I think I watched Under Siege, and thought, ‘let me do something kind of like that,’ because it’s been such a long time since anything like that was made. But it just kind of came through my head, you know, just from watching movies. I couldn’t get a nuclear power plant so I had to rewrite it for a water power dam. Can you contain it? Can you make it take placein one main location?’ The story was always about bad guys taking over what was originally a nuclear power plant and was originally named Reactor. And much of it took place in different locations and basically the skeleton was there, but as I started pitching it, people were like, ‘Oh, this is too expensive. Jared: Eight years ago, I wrote what would eventually become Deadlock. With a nearby town on the brink of massive flooding and destruction, it’s up to one retired elite army ranger Mack Karr (Patrick Muldoon) to save thousands of innocent lives before it’s too late.Ĭheck out my interview with Jared! Where did this story come from? Convinced that the government is working against them, the merciless group brutally seizes an energy plant and holds everyone inside hostage. Jared Cohn brings us a really cool action thriller with Deadlock, which he wrote and directed.īruce Willis stars as Ron Whitlock, a wanted criminal leading a team of mercenaries on a mission of vengeance. The plot had more holes in it then a chain link fence.Patrick Muldoon as Mack in the action film, DEADLOCK, a Saban Films release. For the second point, I don't think I ever saw any character in the movie actually reload their firearm. What I saw in this movie on the 1st point was cut and dry, the mercenaries couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with automatic weapons and the good guy hardly ever misses. There are two things that I always look for in an action movie which speaks volumes as to the effort put into the movie, accuracy of the shooters and reloading. I realize that money is important but geez Louise. There are two things that I always look for in an action movie which speaks volumes As much as I truly hate to dump on Bruce Willis given his current medical issues, I have to wonder why he would have agreed to be in this turd of a movie. As much as I truly hate to dump on Bruce Willis given his current medical issues, I have to wonder why he would have agreed to be in this turd of a movie.
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