57 Seconds director Rusty Cundieff talks his time-travel thriller, Josh Hutcherson's Everyman and Morgan Freeman's dedication to the movie.
Summary The time travel genre gets a unique twist in 57 Seconds. Based on E.C. Tubb's short story "Lucifer," the sci-fi thriller centers on a troubled tech blogger as he gets his hands on a ring that allows him to travel 57 seconds into the past, initially using it to make a better life for himself before setting his sights on a target with ties to his past.
Rusty Cundieff: Well, I've always liked thrillers, and I like sci-fi, so it was a nice change . And honestly, some of the aspects of directing horror and sci-fi are similar anyway.
Yeah, having rules for time travel is just as much fun to explore as it can be without. Now, in speaking of the villain, I did appreciate the timeliness of the story in dealing with Big Pharma and a lot of the negative effects that it's had on this country as a whole. Did you have other ideas in mind for how to explore that theme, or was that always the villain that you had in mind for this?
Rusty Cundieff: Well, it was difficult, it was a difficult discussion. In the versions of the script prior, too, because they were much darker than this one, we knew we were kind of walking that line between light and dark. I think he was one of the first people that came to mind once we had that version of the story, because he's such a good Everyman.
Now, did you feel his push for the realism and the extended research into the science benefited the movie as far as making it easier to explain for audiences? Rusty Cundieff: I haven't heard anything, I would love to. I think things have shifted a little, I think they were shooting when I shot in Atlanta. I think I had a chance on the last season, but I was in Canada shooting, ironically, they're now shooting I believe in Canada, I think they're in Vancouver. So, I don't know, fingers crossed. I loved working with Greg Nicotero, I actually went to high school with Greg Nicotero, believe it or not, or the same high school.
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