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EXCL: David Twohy Makes A Perfect Getaway
Source: Edward Douglas
August 3, 2009

It's been five years since David Twohy directed Vin Diesel in The Chronicles of Riddick, the sequel to the sci-fi thriller Pitch Black that was somewhat of a shocking departure from the dark stylish horror that found Twohy such a large fanbase, being more of a big budget sci-fi action adventure with huge sets that somehow felt like it was overreaching.

Now, Twohy is back with A Perfect Getaway, a tension-filled thriller that follows a newlywed couple, played by Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, on their honeymoon in Hawaii who start hearing stories about brutal murders on a neighboring island and start suspecting two other couples they keep encountering on their travels, including a pair of survivalists played by Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) and Kiele Sanchez (Lost). It's a fun character-based story that takes full advantage of the island surroundings to keep the viewer guessing who might be the killer and what might happen next.

ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to sit down with Twohy for an exclusive interview, and we quickly learned that Two is not only super-smart but he's also the epitome of Hollywood cool when it comes to screenwriters — he reminded us of Mamet in that sense — making this a true two-way interaction rather than just another typical filmmaker Q 'n' A.




ShockTillYouDrop.com: This movie is surprising because I think we're used to you doing dark movies that take place in secluded spaces, but this mostly takes place outdoors in the daytime.

David Twohy: The cinematography is that, but the tone of the piece is not that.




Shock: True, but even the thought of spending 90 minutes in this bright and sunny setting with David Twohy just seems like such an odd idea.

Twohy: That's why I did it, but also the tone of the movie is dark. About half way through the movie, it turns pretty twisted, so I don't think it'll be disappointing the fan base.




Shock: I think people who aren't familiar with your work might go, "Oh, it's this nice vacation movie." I was going to ask this later in the interview, but how involved are you in the marketing of your movies? The trailers for this one really do a good job selling it, they're great.

Twohy: Are they? Do you like them? Well, it's Universal. Same marketing team I did Pitch Black with, same marketing team I did Riddick with. Even though it's a Rogue release and Relativity financed it, they output it through Universal and you get that same team. They're some of the best in the business and I'm largely happy with it.

You take a meeting or two, you understand what their game plan is and then you say, "Okay, you're the pros. Go for it." So I don't micromanage it even though I do see the TV spots and I will say something like – as a matter of fact, I said something like this last night. We have a new round of TV spots coming and one spot tipped its hand too much.




Shock: Right, I think someone told me there was a commercial that might give too much away.

Twohy: Yeah, but this spot hasn't even run yet so I asked them for some changes in that. I'll weigh in on which TV spots work and I have veto power where ones that suck. So I just tell them, "This one sucks, get rid of it. " That's how I deal with it.




Shock: As you probably know, this is a very difficult film to talk about because you can talk about the general plot of three couples meeting on vacation, but you can't get too far into what happens after that, which I'm sure you must have realized while writing it.

Twohy: Well, that's your curse, so you figure out how to write about it without doing that. My curse is how to make it surprising when I'm doing the movie and then in marketing, how do you make it look exciting and intriguing without giving away it's surprises? So that's my curse and you got your own, how much to share and at what point to share it.




Shock: The film seems to explore the theme that "looks can be deceiving." We have a couple on a honeymoon who meet two other couples, who may or may not be serial killers, and we go back and forth as they try to figure out which one. Was that theme something you wanted to explore when you started writing this?

Twohy: It was that thought about when you're going on vacation we wind up talking to strangers, telling them all kinds of stuff that we probably shouldn't. [laughs] Sometimes we open up more to strangers than people we know. Milla has that line in the movie.

I think A Perfect Getaway was sort of a reaction and maybe an overreaction to big-scale filmmaking. After Riddick, I wanted to do something modest, something small, something like Blood Simple maybe something like The Usual Suspects that relied more on interesting characters and turns of the plot rather than high concept or big-budget movie making.

I found myself on vacation in Hawaii and I remember having that thought about sometimes we share more with strangers than with people we know, sometimes we share more on vacation than we otherwise would.




Shock: And sometimes you just make stuff up to make your life seem more glamorous.

Twohy: [laughs] Right, you reinvent yourself, yes. I thought about that impulse and while I was hiking the Kalalau Trail, I started thinking about that impulse and how it could be dangerous. Then I started just to pass the time trying to create back stories for all the trekkers that I would see and meet on the trail, "Okay, he's an ex-military guy and he's the manager of the restaurant [who] hired her as a hostess."

Just creating these little back stories for people...and maybe they're serial killers. Then that lead me to the thought that maybe I could do a movie about personalities sharing too much, meeting the wrong people in this isolated environment, that very trail there that I happened to be on. When I got back to the hotel I started writing what turned out to be A Perfect Getaway.




Shock: Did the movie have a different title at one point?

Twohy: Nope.




Shock: So it was always A Perfect Getaway, which is basically a play on words of escaping on a vacation vs. escaping from someone potentially dangerous.

Twohy: A double entendre.




Shock: Right. I wanted to ask about the self-awareness of this movie. It is very self aware.

Twohy: Self-referential? Well, he's a screenwriter or says he is.




Shock: Right, but you're watching this thriller where you expect certain things to happen and then the characters start talking about those things, which is not something we normally see.

Twohy: Nic Cage.




Shock: Yeah, like talking about Nic Cage, exactly. Could you talk about why you wanted to explore that in this movie as well?

Twohy: Well, this is not a movie that respects a three-act structure and conventional things like that. It's written free-form and that's what I set off to do, so the idea that the characters poke fun at that, too, and the idea that the red herring in the script might start talking about red herrings, I just found that kind of delightful. I think that people who are in the business will like it on a certain level that other people who are not in the business probably won't even really pick up on. But I don't know, I just wanted to have fun with it.




Shock: It definitely adds something fun, because you start hearing the characters talking about plot devices and twists and you start wondering, "Are they allowed to do that in a movie"?

Twohy: Well, it's like you're not gonna make movies about people who never go to see movies and movies don't exist, or you work in a universe where they have seen Harry Potter and they have seen Nic Cage in all these movies.




Shock: Before, you said this is a smaller scale movie and you ended up going to Puerto Rico to shoot for Hawaii. What was involved with finding all of these outdoor locations and getting your cast and crew there?

Twohy: Well, my initial concept was to film it on the Kalalau Trail with just a minimal guerilla crew. I thought we'd be sleeping in tents, waking up the next morning just rolling out and starting to film, actors would be doing their own makeup. That's how low budget I thought I was going to go and I was willing to go, but somehow, you never quite can do that. The crews always starts building, getting bigger, you start talking to technical guys, they need their supply lines in and out every day, food in and out every day. (Laughs)

Quickly, the size and the scope of the production grew larger than I'd anticipated and then financially we had to go to Puerto Rico instead of Kaua'i because there was only a 15 percent rebate in Kaua'I and 40 percent in Puerto Rico, so suddenly we found ourselves there. Still, any movie like this where it's 95 percent exterior - whereas "Riddick" was 100 percent interior - that was also the reaction to that movie too. It was like, "Let me do something else this time and I'll go outside." Then when you want rain you get sun and when you want sun you get rain. [laughs] But you should definitely keep rolling with those damn punches.

The same thing happened to me on Pitch Black. I got hammered with the weather in the Australian outback because in Pitch Black I was trying to do this arid world, no rain, had to be desolated. In the middle of nowhere. I liked that a lot, but we just got rained out all the time on Pitch Black. I was like, "F*ck." But yeah, being exposed to the elements is hell on a crew because you'll get rain when you want sun and vice versa, but there's something kinda magical about it too.




Shock: I was curious because Below and Pitch Black were generally studio movies but they were small scale compared to Riddick. I was curious, where do you go from Riddick, can you go back to doing a small movie again?

Twohy: Yeah, you go back small again. Pitch Black wasn't really a studio movie. Pitch Black was an independent movie that almost went straight to video, but then I think it was Harry Knowles that saw it and liked it and started writing about it and that's when Universal looked at it again and said, "Maybe we can make some money with this."




Shock: There's been a lot of talk with Vin over the years of doing more "Riddick". It's kind of up to the two of you to decide if you want to do it I guess.

Twohy: It is.




Shock: Are you going to go back to how you did the first one and do it more independently?

Twohy: Very much so. I've sketched out two ideas for the next installment. Vin and I have decided on one approach of those two. There's some interest at the studio level and it would be at a PG-13 level and we don't want to do that anymore. That's one of the concessions we made with Riddick that we shouldn't have made.

We also spent too much money and were too ambitious. So yes, if we do go back to a third one it will be focused, hopefully the same way Pitch Black was and we'll spend less money doing it. We're just trying to figure out how much less we can do it for 'cause I don't think Vin is gonna work for scale again. [laughs]




Shock: Right, would it take place after the last movie or in between the first and second?

Twohy: It would take place after the movie.




Shock: What else have you been doing? Have you been writing other scripts?

Twohy: Yeah, I'll write scripts for other people. I bank two to three scripts, maybe even three or four scripts in between movies so that hopefully the goal is to set up the next one while you're shooting. It never really happens, but I'm just writing. I've been writing for other people, sometimes rewrites for studios and things like that.




Shock: Do you have another movie you want to direct next or are you waiting to see what happens with Riddick first?

Twohy: Well, "Riddick" is a possibility, we're looking at the possibility of selling that one territory by territory, see what that adds up to and then can we do this story that we have in mind for that amount of money. So that's what we're examining right now and it may or may not happen.

But, there's also another project that I'm excited about called Crying Havoc, a script of mine. Ridley Scott will produce and it is about an FBI agent who uses technology to track a spy around the world only to learn that that spy is more demon than human and that demon leads him into the lower circles of hell, psychologically speaking. So, that's a cool one.




Shock: It sounds great, and it returns to some of your darker fantasy genre elements.

Twohy: It does and hopefully it has some of the same sort of visual prowess of a movie like Constantine, but hopefully a more coherent script. So, that's in the works too. That may be next.




Shock: Have you ever been approached to direct an existing franchise? I'm a big fan of the visuals you've done so I was curious whether someone ever wanted you to bring that vision to their franchise.

Twohy: Yeah, I get a lot of number threes for some reason as a matter of fact. My response is, "If I'm going to do a number three it probably should be my own franchise, not somebody else's franchise. If I'm a writer, director I should be doing something that's more original than just shooting somebody else's series." So, I do get ‘em, but it feels like that's gonna be a sell-out and it feels like I should be creating more original material. My agent doesn't always like that answer, but that's the answer I give him.




Shock: Of course, because he wants you to keep working and directing a movie every one or two years. My editor wanted me to find out whether the new Riddick might return to being more of a creature feature like Pitch Black.

Twohy: Well, it will always be Riddick-centric. Is the question will it be more like the first one than the second one?




Shock: I guess he was asking whether the next movie would be more based around the creatures like the first movie.

Twohy: Well, it was and it wasn't. Yeah, you could sell it on its creatures and say, "This is a creature fest and we're gonna go out and disperse the creatures," but that's like a lot of different movies.

However, the hallmark of a good movie, and I think Pitch Black is a good movie is that even if you took the creatures out of the picture you still have some pretty interesting character dynamics going on within that group and it's almost like you can tell the same stories without the creatures or substitute some other type of external pressure on the group because there were internal pressures as well which were interesting.

So, was it really a creature feature? Well, it had the hallmarks of it, it had the trappings of a creature movie, but it also had pretty good characters. So, the third movie would be much more modestly scaled and it would feel probably more like Pitch Black than Chronicles.




Shock: What do you enjoy watching when you're not making movies or writing? Do you tend to like genre movies? If you had to watch a movie right now, what would it be? A movie you'd seen before?

Twohy: Probably The Hurt Locker.

Shock: Have you seen it yet?

Twohy: No, I haven't seen it yet. I want to catch up to it. I'm pretty egalitarian in all the movies I see and as a member of the Academy, they send all of the worthy ones to your place of residence where you have to watch them before you vote.

So you get them all on DVD and I plowed through them all and I try to be democratic and see everything. Yeah, I will go see genre films, but I'll tell ya, I like documentaries too. I find myself watching the Discovery Channel a sh*t load and the reality-based stuff to me and the cool documentaries.


Shock: I hope you like The Hurt Locker, it's such a good movie. I've seen it about four times now.

Twohy: Seriously? Is it always the same?


Shock: The characters and their situations are so strong you really find something different to get out of it with each viewing.

Twohy: What did she make it for, do you know?

Shock: I'm not sure, but probably not more than $10 million I'd guess.

Twohy: Do you know where they shot?

Shock: They shot in Jordan.

Twohy: Alright, based on your recommendation I'm going to go see The Hurt Locker.



A Perfect Getaway opens on Friday, August 7.
Look for our interviews with Twohy's stars Milla Jovovich and Timothy Olyphant later this week.

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[browneyes106]

Thanks for posting the interview. A Perfect Getaway looks interesting

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by browneyes106

Thanks for posting the interview. A Perfect Getaway looks interesting

Yeah, I'm interested in this one too. I like the cast.

[JamesG]

A Perfect Getaway: Star Milla Jovovich
By: Jeff Otto

Last week Bloody-Disgusting brought you the news that Milla Jovovich would be returning to the role of Alice in RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, which her husband, Paul W.S. Anderson is returning to direct.

Today we have the rest of our exclusive interview with Milla discussing her role in the new thriller from writer/director David Twohy, A PERFECT GETAWAY. Jovovich plays Cydney, a newlywed who goes to Hawaii with her husband Cliff (Steve Zahn) for some fun and adventure. But the r & r quickly meets an end when a killer starts offing island tourists. Cydney and Cliff band up with a few other couples for safety, but soon everyone is a suspect.




BLOODY-DISGUSTING: What drew you to Twohy’s script and to the role of Cydney?

MILLA JOVOVICH: I’d just had a baby and I wasn’t really interested in going back to work. Then I read the script and he pretty much had me playing a nice, normal girl, which I don’t really get a chance to do very often. So I thought, ‘How fun, I just get to be normal me’ rather than the super strong woman or dark character.

And then, of course, towards the end of the script everything goes horribly wrong and I was like, ‘Oh, okay, I get it.’ But I still get to play a normal goal for most of the [story] and that was attractive to me. (Laughs)




BD: So who do you relate to more, the nice girl or the tough girl?

MJ: Well, of course, the tough girl. I mean, that’s all I do in my real life is backflip into the kitchen and chop vegetables. No, of course I relate to the normal person because I am a nice, normal person.




BD: Did you know Steve Zahn before this?

MJ: No, but I have to say, Steve and I got along so well. Pretty much what you see on screen is what we’re like in real life. You always knew where Steve and I were because we were always laughing and telling jokes and funny stories and having fun.

Between takes, we’d bring our iPods to set and the sound guy would just blast great music. We had a really nice time on this and I feel like I’ve known Steve for a long time. I want to go visit him and his family on the farm. Sometimes when people are so talented they can be a little self-centered, but Steve is one of those rare people with that natural talent who’s so down to Earth.




BD: Did you and Steve rehearse together to nail down the newlywed thing?

MJ: For me it’s really important to run lines so I can find a comfort zone with my voice. My normal voice is a bit L.A. and nasal. In RESIDENT EVIL my voice is [lower] and I’m always speaking down low.

In post on RESIDENT EVIL, I’ll be horrified when I hear my normal voice and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I sound like a Valley girl with a gun.’ It was nice to relax and use my normal voice for this. It was okay for the part because she is this typical L.A. girl, kinda dorky.




BD: The twist in A PERFECT GETAWAY pretty much changes everything for the characters and the audience. What was your reaction when you first read it?

MJ: My reaction was just, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe it.’ Not everyone is what they seem. I think we all have so many facets to our personalities and that was an interesting part about this movie. It wasn’t all just one tone.




BD: How much do you feel you are typecast and how much do you have to sift through the same kinds of scripts to find something new and interesting?

MJ: You know, I don’t mind being typecast honestly. If I have my niche, I have my niche. I’m very lucky. I’m 33, I’m a mom, I’ve got a great franchise. If people see me as an action hero, great.

There could be worse things to be seen as. I still get a chance to work on smaller films where I get to play more versatile characters. Granted, not many people see them, but as an actress I get to do lots of different stuff. It’s amazing to have an action franchise because it’s steady work every few years and it’s a great gig. I think I’m very lucky in my career to be able to do both.

I just finished a small movie called STONE and it was a very heavy production, very heavy character, drama. It’s hard to play parts like that because it’s hard to leave it at work and come home and be your normal self. If I was doing serious films all the time that were very dramatic, I probably wouldn’t be a very nice person to be around most of the time. So it’s great to have that balance and mix it up.

When I was like 20 years old, yeah, I was like, ‘Screw you all for typecasting me! I’m serious and artsy.’ And now I’m like, ‘You know what, it’s all good.’ I’m very lucky and I just count my blessings at this point.


A PERFECT GETAWAY opens in theaters nationwide this Friday, August 7th.

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EXCL: Timothy Olyphant, Nice Guy or Serial Killer?
Source: Edward Douglas
August 5, 2009

Probably one of the best reasons to see David Twohy's new paradise-based thriller A Perfect Getaway, opening this Friday, is to see Timothy Olyphant ("Deadwood," Hitman) playing former Marine and survivalist Nick, a character so entertaining in his narcissistic ability to talk endlessly about himself you're likely to completely forget that he just might be (dramatic pause) a serial killer!!

The premise of Twohy's latest is based around a couple (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) on their honeymoon in Hawaii, where they meet Nick and his girlfriend Gina--Kiele Sanchez from "Lost" whose first appearance in the movie is completely starkers. Having heard stories about a series of brutal murders on a neighboring island, they start to suspect Nick and Gina of being responsible, although there are other possible suspects as well. Olyphant has played a lot of bad guys and anti-heroes and the like but he always seems to make those characters so likeable you might find yourself liking Nick as much or more than the heroes of the story.

ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to sit down for a fifteen minute interview with Olyphant where we were able to cover a lot of ground.




ShockTillYouDrop.com: I was reading that you were actually born in Honolulu, so I thought it was cool you had a chance to return home. Then I found out that the movie wasn't shot in Hawaii at all, but in Puerto Rico.

Timothy Olyphant: I know, I thought I'd shoot in my birthplace.

Shock: Do you go back there often?

Olyphant: No, never been.

Shock: Really? When did you leave?

Olyphant: Like when I was an infant.




Shock: When you first read the script did you think you were going to go back and spend some time there?

Olyphant: Well, I thought, "The locations are nice. I don't know where we're going to shoot it, but I figure it's gotta be fairly nice. We'll probably shoot in some realistic place, wherever we get the best tax break."

Shock: They shoot "Lost" in Hawaii, and we have no idea where they're supposed to be.

Olyphant: There you go.




Shock: What was the main appeal of doing the movie? And I guess we have to be careful about talking about certain things as to not spoil the twists.

Olyphant: Sure, I appreciate it.

Shock: Nick seems at first like a character we've seen you play before, but we do get a few different things from him over the course of the movie. Did that contribute to you wanting to play the part?

Olyphant: There was a lot to chew on. I thought the scenes were smart and they were fun and I don't know, it felt like a good part I could have some fun with. I like the attention to detail in the script. I remember really enjoying that. There's so many things that are being called back. Your read a lot of scripts or scenes with heavy dialogue like that, but they're sort of very, very few of them actually have relevance to the things that are being said. I thought those were fun and smart and clever.




Shock: The movie is very self-aware. You don't often have thrillers where there are killers, but you don't know who they are, and then one of the suspects starts talking about movie making devices like "red herrings."

Olyphant: It's a completely different genre, but it reminded me first of the "Scream" franchise and I enjoyed those for the same reason.

Shock: Yeah, it seems more intelligent than your normal summer thriller usually is.

Olyphant: Good, I thought so as well.

Shock: I was just talking with Milla about this, but when you go on vacation—and maybe as an actor it's different—but it's easy to create a persona that's a glorified version of yourself. Did you think Nick was exactly who he said he was, that he was a Marine guy who did all the things he tells Cliff and Cydney about?

Olyphant: I can tell you that I thought the fun of it was always just playing the scenes as exactly as is, don't try to disguise anything, don't try to worry about revealing or secrets or any of that kind of stuff, just play the scenes. I tend to approach every job as the script is the thing and it's all there. So all I know is written. My gut on that stuff is that most of it is probably real, most of it, if it's not real he thinks he is.




Shock: Were you able to shoot in any kind of order so that you knew where in the story you were, as far as the level of suspicions between the travelers?

Olyphant: No, we were all out of order. We didn't shoot in order. Locations were a priority. It was all about locations, when we got to the rainforest, we shot all of the rainforest, when we got to the beaches, we shot all of the beaches and everything. So, we didn't really get to kinda go through it. It would've been a lovely luxury for a film like this.

Shock: I guess the movie is sort of non-linear in a sense anyway, but how is that for an actor trying to get into such a difficult character and figuring that out?

Olyphant: You do invest a great deal into this especially because it's such a puzzle at making sure you're clear on the information. But again, the script was in good shape and so you really just had to play the scene.




Shock: Did you do any kind of preparation for the movie? You've done so many different things that you probably have experience doing anything that might get thrown at you I would think. What kind of preparation did you have to do, if any?

Olyphant: I just start with the script and I just invest everything into that and then whatever that brings up. You kind of go on instinct I guess. I think that mostly with this one it's about making sure those dialogue-heavy scenes, that you're really investing them into a way so that it comes out in a very organic way. It can come out quick and keep moving and keep people on their toes and not feel like it gets bogged down. Those are the challenges I recall. We had so much fun, it was so easy really. It was a blast.

Shock: It was basically the four of you most of the time.

Olyphant: It was basically the four of us, and it was a blast. I mean, working with all of them was a dream. Steve and I had a great rapport right off the bat. I love working with him. Milla and Kiele were both just so refreshing and all of them, you really feel like you're playing ball with them. I never say something and it just sort of disappears and you get that sometimes. You really feel like it was always spontaneous, it was always fresh, you were always discovering things, you're always like, f*cking with each other and finding little nuances. That's really a kick. It's fun to be able to do a three, four page scene with actors like that.




Shock: It was all pretty much on location?

Olyphant: Yeah, we shot everything in Puerto Rico.

Shock: Was any of the location stuff built on soundstages?

Olyphant: No, we didn't build any jungles. We were in the jungle. We shot in the rainforest, we shot in the jungle, we shot on the cliffs and it was great.

Shock: Were any of the places you had to shoot that were dangerous to get to or to shoot on?

Olyphant: It was all right, nothing too bad, but it was a blast where we had the lean-to on the rocks there. It was just awesome, the lava rocks and the waves crashing up on us. It was great. The locations were amazing. We went to Jamaica. The cave was in Jamaica. Oh, that was a treat, just Steve and I in the cave in Jamaica. Puerto Rico couldn't come through on their caves. They promised us caves and couldn't deliver.

Shock: I want to ask David later about the location scouting. A lot of those places seemed really remote and out of the way.

Olyphant: Yeah, I mean, we really drove all over that island and then like I said, ended up flying to at Jamaica last minute.

Shock: It's too bad, because the movie is a great testimonial for the beauty of Puerto Rico, which everyone will assume is Hawaii.

Olyphant: It looks gorgeous, right?




Shock: I'm also curious about the relationship between Nick and Gina… they're just an interesting couple, him being a soldier and her having some sort of background as a… butcher? I'm not really sure what else to call what she does.

Olyphant: (Laughs) Isn't that the greatest? The goat? I love that goat.

Shock: What draws them to this other couple, played by Milla and Steve, since it wouldn't seem that in any other situation, these two couples would be able to be friends with each other.

Olyphant: It's always tricky to talk about the relationships in this movie without giving things away ‘cause what I was about to say is that I think that the great thing about the character and what makes them a possibility is that he seems to be at the heart of it all quite a vulnerable, genuine guy, blowing all that smoke, but it feels like it almost comes out of an insecurity.

There's something endearing about that. She sees right through him. I love that he's a pussycat around here and she kinda gets him and that she knows that when he's talking on and on and on that it just comes out of – I don't know, I think she gets him. I was thrilled, I think there was a great chemistry there and I liked that whole relationship.




Shock: That's really insightful since one of the things I've noticed about the bad guys you play is that people generally like when you play those characters. I think that's the case here, even though you may or may not be a brutal killer, Nick's personality really draws audiences in.

Olyphant: Well, I think David wrote a really great three dimensional character that really gave me a lot of room to trust to play all those notes and that makes my job really easy. I think any time you do a job, if it's a good guy or bad guy, you're looking for the other.

If you're playing the hero, you look to see the other side and vice versa. This one really gave me a lot of room to explore a lot of different angles, look at the character a lot of different ways and those people are very attractive. It's hard not to enjoy their presence.




Shock: This movie actually shot a while ago, a couple of years ago, right?

Olyphant: I'm really bad at that, but it's been over a year. I feel like we shot this in maybe April of last year. I think that's when we shot.

Shock: You also just finished shooting "The Crazies," so what was that like? It's based on sort of this strange, lost George Romero movie.

Olyphant: I think it's great. I think it's going to turn out great.

Shock: Are they going to keep all of the anti-military stuff that Romero put in the original movie?

Olyphant: Yeah, Participant's behind it and Participant doesn't do anything that doesn't have a real message to it, so it's kind of an unusual film for them. Participant does like, "Syriana" and "An Inconvenient Truth." It's a nice marriage. It's a nice little twist to the kind of movies they do.

I think that what is without question, if there's anything worth keeping from the original it is that great metaphor, it was a horror film, but it was really a commentary on the Vietnam War. So oddly enough that metaphor is still really relevant and contemporary.




Shock: I was curious about the change of locations. The original movie was set in Pennsylvania, but the remake is set in Iowa, and you actually shot in Georgia?

Olyphant: We shot in Georgia for a few weeks, but then moved to Iowa. We could've shot the whole thing in Iowa. I think it was really about weather. In order to start shooting when we wanted to start shooting Iowa would've been too cold.




Shock: Do you have any plans to return to "Damages" and do more TV stuff?

Olyphant: As far as "Damages" is concerned, I don't know. I remain in touch with them and it was a lovely experience, a wonderful show to be a part of, but I don't know.

Shock: Do you like going back and forth between TV and film?

Olyphant: Yeah, I'm going to do another series on FX… it'll air in the spring of next year, February or March. We've shot the pilot and it's been picked up. I start shooting in October or November. (That's called) "Lawman." It's based on an Elmore Leonard character, Raylin Givens, who was in "Pronto" and "Riding the Rap." The pilot's based on the short story called "Fire in the Hole." It's fantastic. I've had a nice year.




Shock: Have you met Elmore yet?

Olyphant: No, I haven't but I look forward to it.

Shock: I attended a book reading of his. He's as cool as you might imagine.

Olyphant: I hear he's the greatest so I'm hoping to see him soon.

Shock: Will he be involved with the show?

Olyphant: Yeah, as far as I know. Yeah, he is involved. He's a producer on the show and he's involved. I know he was involved in the pre-production. I just personally haven't had a chance to meet him.




Shock: I know there's been recent talk of doing another "Hitman," are you getting involved in that too?

Olyphant: I'm thrilled that it was successful enough that they'd do another one. It's not on my schedule.

Shock: Just physically you couldn't possibly do it at this point?

Olyphant: It's just not on my schedule. (Laughs)

Shock: But did you sign for another movie?

Olyphant: If they want me to do another one I suppose it could happen, yes.

Shock: I think most people had low expectations for the movie and it actually did really well. Did you like playing the character?

Olyphant: The things I've got in front of me right now I'm really excited about. I'm really thrilled about the television show. What I can tell you about "Hitman" is that I'm trilled it was as successful as it was and it was a really nice opportunity and I appreciate the opportunity.


A Perfect Getaway opens on Friday, August 7.

Look for the final interview in our series with the lovely Milla Jovovich, sometime tomorrow.

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