We spoke w/ ChadStahelski about producing DayShift and why he loves Jamie Foxx’s fight with the elderly vampire. He also talks about his relationship with director J.J. Perry, making the movie is 42 days, and why he responded to the script.
While you know Chad Stahelski’s name as the director of the John Wick movies, he just added a new title to his IMDb resume: producer. He got this for his work on director J.J. Perry’s vampire action movie, Day Shift, which is now streaming on Netflix. In the movie, Jamie Foxx plays a hard-working dad that works as a pool cleaner. But what his family doesn’t know is the pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income—hunting and killing vampires.
I was like, "Okay, well, I get this." It has some problems with plots and some character stuff like how. I was like, "Come in. Give me the pitch." You'd think, because I've known J.J. for almost 30-something years, so we have a shorthand to say at least, like any good friend would. So, you could have the individual that comes in and talks to you like a friend, "Yo, bro. Come on. Do me a solid. All right. Let's do this.
We went to two or three other studios all within two, three... literally, this all happened in 48 hours. We did our pitch rounds. We've given the right amount of time to the people that we were supposed to. But as soon as the clock ticked, literally to the minute, Netflix was on the phone going, "We're in. We want it done." I'm like, "Oh. Oh, okay, great." And we're in. And then within two more weeks, our casting list had been done.
STAHELSKI: No, totally. That's why it was an easy pitch line, but to nail comedy I still think is the hardest thing out there. And to nail that tone, you got to know where you're going. You need the goal. You need the vision. So, I think that's what he had.STAHELSKI: That's my favorite sequence in the whole movie, by far.
One of the things about the film is that he had, I believe, 42 days to shoot the film, which is not a lot of time.Yeah, exactly. So, that's the thing. I think, it's all up there, in terms of the screen, but another thing that I really enjoyed is that I don't want to give anything away. But the script, it does some things in the second or beginning of the third act that I didn't see coming, which is always nice.
But honestly, J.J. hasn't had an opening night yet, and I have. And the first time you walk out there to the audience, and you're sitting, and you're watching it, and you hear people actually clap for the shit that you've done. All the pain and suffering and all the angst and all this stuff, because even as grown men, you're still like, "Wow, that's.
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