We talked with filmmaker Brian Skiba about his new thriller Pursuit, out Friday
✖ Brian Skiba is the kind of filmmaker who has been grinding away at low-budget, but memorable, genre fare for years, and who in recent years has started to find a bit of a foothold in the mainstream market. With 2020's The 2nd, the filmmaker associated with movies like Rottentail and Blood Moon Rising found himself working on one of those slick, direct-to-streaming action movies that big-name stars are doing in between their theatrical projects these days.
"I was brought in on the third or fourth draft, came in, and then I did my director's pass," Skiba told ComicBook."[The producers] came in and said, 'Look, this is where we want to go with it. It's not quite there yet, but let's get it there.' I lugged it the rest of the way with my director's pass, and then from there, John [Cusack] came in, and John and I got it to final draft. John is very hands on with his scripts, and loves character development.
"Emile called me after reading the script, and was like, 'Man, I really like Rick,'" Skiba told ComicBook."He wanted to play the bad guy. And I think it was because Rick was so faceted, he was able to bring something to it. He had all these ideas. He had ideas for the neck tattoo, and so we got tattoo artists in. I think for him, it was a chance to play a character, which Emile is fantastic at.
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