Caffeinated Clint
Moviehole caught up with action-king turned soft’n’fuzzy comedy headliner Vin Diesel who said he’s trying to get his forthcoming "Hannibal the Conqueror", about Carthaginian general, Hannibal Barca, made as cheap as possible.
“I’m going to direct it as a multilingual film,” he admits, the decision having been made “after I got a budget back from a studio that said it would cost $217 million over the line. So I said, huh. I know I’m not the smartest guy in the world but $217m, doesn’t that mean that this film will never get made? There’s no way in the world that this film will be made at $217m, and I am already committed to this character, channelling this guy. So I’ll go into soft pre-production, and think about sequences, and think about ways to shoot sequences that would have the same story about it but cost a lot less. So I went into soft pre-production and I got the budget down to $50 million. I decided that I wanted to direct it. So you could take a scene that would cost $20 million and if you are thoughtful and creative, you can cut down that scene, and have the same story about, the same emotional and action impact, and not spend so much money and that’s the problem. The second a film costs over $200 million, we give our industry out to the corporate world.”
Thanks to ‘Paul’
