Archive for March 14th, 2010

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in the violent dark comedy/thriller "Repo Men"

ShockTillYouDrop.com has recently published an interview with the director of the upcoming sci-fi thriller Repo Men, Miguel Sapochnik.

The movie itself takes place in the future and is about a company that sells artificial organs at absurdly high prices. If a recipient of one of these organs ends up not being able to make the payments, though, said organ gets repossessed by Repo Men like Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker). Through an accident, Remy becomes an unwilling recipient of one of these high-priced organs and, because he can’t pay, gets pursued by the same men he used to work with.

The interview goes into a lot of detail about how the film came to fruition, from when the idea came about through Eric Garcia’s novel “The Repossession Mambo” to when Sapochnik was shopping the script around Hollywood trying to get financing. The director clearly recognizes that the tone of the material and subject matter are very much against the grain, but says that these factors are what drew him towards the project. With this being Sapochnik’s first feature film (his background is comprised of shorts), it would be an understatement to say that this was a learning experience.

Sapochnik claims that he got much of his inspiration for the movie from the British comedy group Monty Python, who often mixed violence with humor. “I love the humor of Monty Python. I always remember being so impressed by how violent Monty Python are actually when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence. Even Terry Jones in “The Search for the Holy Grail” when he’s kinda cutting the guy up into pieces and he’s saying, ‘You know, it’s just a flesh wound.’ They were very violent movies, but there’s humor in that violence and there’s irony in it.”

For those looking forward to the film or just interested in getting to know exactly what it’s about, this interview should prove to be both entertaining and informative.

Repo Men opens Friday, March 19th.