I look at playback on-set and I put the 3D glasses on and if I feel like we have it then we move on. How can I move differently or I was talking about sticking my tongue out and seeing it would go into the 4 th row of the audience and if there’s anything I can do to play with the format.Ĭage: No. I’m trying to mess with the format - meaning like what can I do with 3D as a film actor. I’m very excited about what can emerge from this.
There’s so many different sides to this one because it is a car movie but it also has the action of an old Charles Bronson movie and then you add the supernatural component to it and on top of that you have 3D, so it’s not like anything else that I’ve done before or really seen before. And then you have the element of the automobile as well. And there were a couple of moves that Charles Bronson had like in Death Wish that I was trying to bring back for this. Is there a character based reference for you that you go back to at all?Ĭage: Well I tried to instill as much of those memories that I had from the 70’s films with Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood. There’s a lot of references to 70’s car movies, chase movies. There’s an infinite number of possibilities when you’re dealing with the infinite. I see him as a protector of children when something horrific is about to happen to children, he is awakened from the abyss and I like characters that have supernatural aspects to them because I feel like you can do more with them. It’s not really a…it’s almost more than human like a ghost on a vengent tear. You know, he’s not really a…it’s more like a force from another dimension. What’s the most uncomfortable thing about this character?Ĭage: Well, there’s the level of killing.
But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies and I felt that this was as good a chance to make a midnight movie as any, so that’s why I jumped in. I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. So that I can do something with the material that compels me to go in a new direction. Is that something that attracted you to the role or was it something…did it make you a little nervous?Ĭage: Well I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative. And the producers didn’t go for that, so when it was handed to me in this movie that they were going to shoot my eye out with a gun I thought, "yeah I’m going to make that movie."Ĭan you talk a little bit about…it’s a hard R movie.
Nicolas Cage: Yeah, well I read the script and they said that…when I read it my eye was going to be shot out and I remember on a movie called “Season of the Witch” I wanted them to shoot my eye out with an arrow. Question: We heard you jumped right into this project when you got pitched the script and everything. In this newest action horror shot in 3D, a vengeful father hunts down the people who brutally killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. Here are the details:ĭRIVE ANGRY 3D – In a Comic-Con exclusive, stars of the film including Nicolas Cage, William Fichtner, Amber Heard as well as director Patrick Lussier will debut footage from the high-octane, blood-spattered road trip through hell. And if you're going to Comic-Con this week, Summit is holding a panel Friday in Hall H at 2:15 – 3:15pm for Drive Angry. Read or listen to what he had to say after the jump:Īs usual, you can either read the transcript below or listen to the audio by clicking here. Anyway, while on set Cage told us why he wanted to get involved, what it was like to work on his first 3D movie, and a lot more. Meaning.expect plenty of blood and guts! I'm super excited. What's great about the movie is that it's being filmed in 3D, it's a super hard R, and it's from the filmmakers behind My Bloody Valentine. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.” But the quick synopsis is the film “centers on a man (Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby.
While studios usually wait till closer to release to let us post on set interviews, I'm giving Summit a lot of credit for letting us get a jump on Comic-Con and lifting the embargo today.įor those not familiar with Drive Angry, you should start by reading my set report. While on the set of Drive Angry 3D in early May, I got to participate in a small roundtable interview with Nicolas Cage. Cage said why he wanted to get involved, what it was like to work on his first 3D movie, more Interview with Nicolas Cage on the set of DRIVE ANGRY 3D.