![]() There is a scene that we wrote, which is actually a deleted scene on the DVD and Blu-ray, and the last scene of the movie with him and Nic, everything else is almost exactly what we wrote in the very first draft. Patrick Lussier: No, not really at all! The Accountant is pretty much exactly what we wrote, and he just found all the nuance and cadence. It was great.ĭid that character evolve at all after casting him? Did you tailor anything for him? ![]() Beforehand they loved him, and then when they saw his performance, they really loved him. Then, right after Christmas, they said, 'Yeah, you want him? Let's offer it to him.' I wondered if they just got tired of hearing it, but Summit and Millennium, everybody really loved him. Other names kept being talked about, and I just kept pushing Bill forward. Patrick Lussier: We met him around Halloween 2009, but we couldn't actually make an offer until after Christmas. He was the first actor we met for it, and the only actor we wanted.ĭid you book him right after meeting him? I think he's an incredible actor and it was so amazing to have him in the film. ![]() It was great to see him finally get a juicy role like this where he can really flourish. I've been a big fan of William Fichtner for a long time now. ![]() It isn't some bounty hunter who is going to come after you, it's literally some accountant. It wasn't hippies and granola and stuff, it was efficient. The Accountant was something where we were talking about what our version of hell is, and it felt like it was incredibly well-rounded. Then we just decided to keep calling him that. We started calling him that in the beginning, since we didn't know what to call him. Within less than a year of finishing the script, we were shooting it, which is pretty unheard of.īesides naming Nicolas Cage's character John Milton, were there any other influences from the author John Milton's work on this project? He has a deal for so many pictures over at Millennium Films, and they said they loved the movie. He's an amazing producer and he loved the script. We started right around Groundhog's Day, and, about eight weeks later on March 28, we started shopping it around to producers. Patrick Lussier: No, we wrote it in eight weeks. I assume it didn't take you very long to write it then? We started hatching this idea of this crazy, supernatural car movie. When we were doing them, we started talking about what we wanted to do next. Todd and I were doing a lot of press together and hanging out together, doing interviews and stuff like that. Patrick Lussier: Drive Angry actually came right when My Bloody Valentine 3D was being released. I was curious if you came up for the idea of Drive Angry while you were working on that, or does the idea go back farther than that? You worked with Todd Farmer on My Bloody Valentine 3D. I recently had the chance to speak with director Patrick Lussier about this 3D adventure, and here's what he had to say. He collaborated with actor-screenwriter Todd Farmer on the successful 3D horror remake My Bloody Valentine 3D, which lead to the writer and director's latest collaboration, the fantastic 3D action-thriller Drive Angry, which arrives on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 31. After cutting movies such as Scream, Scream 2, and Red Eye, Patrick Lussier made the transition to directing with Dracula 2000 and White Noise 2: The Light. They say that everyone has to start somewhere, and, like several directors before him, Patrick Lussier started out as a film editor.
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