'We were constantly doing all sorts of tomfoolery, which ended up being a way of life.' OscarIsaac talks to his long-time friends John Alvey and Bob Johnson about their origin story and working together on the new graphic novel 'Head Wounds: Sparrow.'
his early career as an indie darling. Now, he’s on a quest to tell his own epic stories on a smaller scale, starting with the production company he formed with his wife, Danish film director Elvira Lind. Mad Gene Media’s first project—the gripping, strikingly illustrated graphic novel—is particularly personal for Isaac, whose childhood friends Bob Johnson and John Alvey played a huge role in bringing the undead tale to life.
ISAAC: Right, and then we became friends and I was there just with a guitar and I was trying to get into the theater and auditioning for the school play and we both ended up in the play together.ISAAC: Yeah, yeah. You were John the Baptist and I kind of played a bunch of other characters and played guitar and that is really how we started becoming closer and closer.
ISAAC: Yeah. And then we started a band and John was in the band as well and then another thing that we would do, even before the band started, is we would make movies together. I had my dad’s video camera and I would always take it and come over to your place or you guys would come over to our place. I got really up close and personal with you.JOHNSON: Yes. I was pistol-whipping people.
JOHNSON: Sometimes we talk to a lot of writers, musicians, who feel that structure is going to kill their creativity, but it doesn’t. Structure takes your creativity and points it in a direction and John is so much better at structure. Once he learns a structure, he’s a bulldog.
ALVEY: And the story, you have a guy whose wound is constantly bleeding and Christian, literally, is taking that realism and bleeding it into the abstract.
ISAAC: It’s kind of like this weird stigmata that was happening. He was meant to protect his friend. His friend gets shot in the head, so suddenly he has a gunshot wound in his head that only he can see. It’s this invisible wound.
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