We spoke w/ producer and president of production at SevenBucksProd hhgarcia41 about RedNotice, BlackAdam, the next ‘Jumanji’ sequel, TheRock's upcoming schedule, future sequels, Teremana, ‘DC League of Super-Pets,' and more.
If you’re a fan of Dwayne Johnson, the movies his company Seven Bucks Productions makes, and curious what they’re working on, you’re about to be very happy. That’s because I recently conducted an exclusive interview with Hiram Garcia, producer and president of production at Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions, where we discussed not only their latest film, Red Notice, but everything that’s being developed, and the sequels they’re interested in making down the road.
HIRAM GARCIA: That's a really good question. I think if they've never seen anything I've produced, I'd probably have them start with either, I'd say, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle or Hobbs & Shaw. I think both of those movies were really fun, I think really capture some of the essence and the tone we love to deliver for fans. But the one I'd tell them to see last would be Baywatch. That one I can be pretty confident on.
I completely understand everything you're saying. Dwayne's schedule is always... I'm going to use the term crowded. Getting ready, what is 2022 looking like? One of the things that we like about this project is that we can't find a comp for a Christmas movie that's ever been made like this or one that matches the tone and scale of what it's going to be, so that feels exciting for us to do something that hasn't been done before.
GARCIA: Exactly. And your timeline is fantastic, bud. You really do know production. That's our window. We're probably going to be filming somewhere around... Between May and June will be the beginning of principal photography.So jumping into Red Notice, what do you think would surprise people to learn about the actual making of the film?
GARCIA: Well, look, there was a lot of fun in figuring out how we're going to integrate both these iconic brands into the film. But they were both very clever in how they did it, and we wanted to make sure we picked the perfect location to do shots for each.
Say you guys hypothetically... This is not a real number. Say you were planning on making 1000 cases for the year, and all of a sudden, your demand is 5000 cases. Basically, I'm saying how do you deal with that supply and demand, when all of a sudden your demand far exceeds maybe what you were expecting to make?
I think your biggest thing, and I just laugh about it, is that everything that Dwayne does can be a sequel. So it's like how does he figure that out in terms of you could be making a Black Adam sequel, you could be making a Red Notice sequel, you could be making another Jumanji movie, there's Hobbs & Shaw 2? It's an actual issue.
GARCIA: It was challenging and weird and really hard for our director because, look, you know better than anyone that when you're testing these movies, especially a comedy... A comedy testing is so surgical and exact. You want to be in the room. You want people in a very comfortable setting so that they can really go on the ride and enjoy the laugh, and a lot of the humor is interacting with other people in the audience.
So I know that Jake is going to Red One. What does that actually mean for another Jumanji? Is that actually something that you think is going to happen? I know that Dwayne obviously loved working with Disney on Jungle Cruise, and considering the pandemic, it did very well. So is that a sequel that you actually think could happen?
GARCIA: Yes. 100%. We have a room with people in it, and they're working with... No, the truth is that we are grinding away on it. Look, we keep our directors very busy. Obviously, Jaume Collet-Serra, who would be doing that sequel, is deep in post on Black Adam. But we're working with writers. We have an idea of what we want for the story, and we're the process of just pushing that along and honing it.
Before I actually ask you about Black Adam, I enjoyed the Disney+ docuseries Behind the Attraction, which you guys produced. Are you guys making more episodes of that, or was it always designed as the 10 or 12 episodes that it was? The fact that he leaned so much on the talents of Hollywood at that time, the production designers and the creature specialists at that time, to execute on Haunted Mansion and Pirates and things like that, it's just one of those things you didn't think about, where he was using the best and brightest from Hollywood at that time to make sure all these rides had that cinematic appeal and vibe to it, all the way from who he was using to voice Haunted Mansion and so forth.
So jumping into Black Adam before I run out of time with you, I, like everyone else, cannot wait to see this movie. Where are you guys in the editing process? GARCIA: 100%, yeah. Like I said, as our job, it's always to be ready to have that when the fans want it. But on top of it, it's the joy of telling these kinds of stories. Obviously, when you're dealing with superheroes and DC characters like this, there's a little bit of a different path because everything's connected.
GARCIA: You know how it goes, my friend. It's a lot of paperwork involved. You got to sort it through before you say anything too definitive.
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