“This is reminiscent of the movies we loved growing up,” Joe Russo said. “This is a big, fun summer action movie.”
The Gray Man . Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen, Anthony Russo , Joe Russo .CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Before they became the most commercially successful directing duo in Hollywood, Joe and Anthony Russo were big movie fans. Growing up in Cleveland, the brothers loved going to the theater to see action movies, in particular, quoting them and then watching them again at home on their VCR.
“We love going into a movie theater and having a very strong, visceral, emotional experience. So, we try to recreate that in the work that we do,” Anthony said. “This movie is very intense, very edge of your seats and the kind of movie that you forget to eat your popcorn while you’re watching.” “He’s so deep undercover that there’s not even a record of him in the CIA,” Anthony explained. “There have been many amazing versions of the spy genre through the decades and, if you’re going to take a stab at it, we really wanted to try hard to find an original way into the storytelling that brought something fresh. So, we liked anchoring this story around this character who wants to disappear, who’s always anonymous.
“We wanted to be evocative of some of the extremist groups that are popping up around the world today,” he said. “We spent many, many months dreaming up what the sequences could be,” Anthony said. “We were really just trying to create something that felt very intense and real and the audience could feel it.”
“It adds a level of realism for the actors,” he said. “It gives them that geography to act opposite of and it helps us as filmmakers to define the action sequences based on all the real-world elements that we’re dealing with.”
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