Filmmaker discusses his collaboration with actors like Frank Grillo and Melissa Leo on the action thriller 'Long Gone Heroes'. He reveals how they brought the story to life despite its initial weak script.
Tyler Treese: I know you’ve worked with Frank a few times now. What made him the perfect fit for Gunner? He does a really great job leading this film: Frank actually brought me onto the movie. It was already in development. I mean, they were about to shoot, they were about a month out from shooting, and they parted ways with the initial director. Frank and I have a rapport from our four movies we had done prior to this. So, he called me and asked me if I’d be interested in coming on.
So, it was actually the reverse. Frank was already Gunner, and I was called in at the last minute. So, yeah, I’m very flattered. I love Frank. He’s like family to me at this point. You’ve worked with him several times, and the same with Melissa Leo. When you’re working with these actors that you really have these relationships with, how is it really getting to iterate? I assumeYeah, I mean, I’m blessed to have made relationships, and strong ones at that, with a lot of the actors in this movie, Frank, Melissa, Leo, George Carroll. I’ve done, I think, seven movies with Beau Knapp. I’ve done three with Eden, so there’s a lot of history with me and all these actors. With this script, it was in bad shape when I came on to do the movie. It was not a great script at all. Frank and the producers let me throw out that script and kind of rewrite a new on
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