![]() To me if feels like, even though they are very different films, I feel the tone in each is sort of funny, with heartfelt and warm things in both movies that unite all the characters, and it’s a basic sort of warm storytelling. And controlling that tone is really the difficult part of, or one of the difficult parts of directing a movie like that. Matthias: Yes, I think that what kind of unites the two movies is, in terms of tone, what’s really difficult to control in an action comedy or a horror comedy is that the comedy doesn’t overtake the drama or the scares and the action scenes, and the balance sort of feels effortless, that one element isn’t overpowering the other. Did you find any new challenges doing this movie that you hadn’t overcome before or met before? It leads me to my next question, which is while both were very comedic movies, Enter the Warrior’s Gate is definitely very different compared to Cockneys vs Zombies, especially with being partially a martial arts film. So when I got the script from Luc I was all “Okay! Brilliant! This is my chance now to make my own martial arts adventure.” I thought it would be so much fun to find a new way of doing a sort of modern martial arts movie, but then I also stopped really pursuing any pictures or ideas in that direction, because I thought the only Western producer who could do that credibly would be Quentin Tarantino or Luc Besson. When I grew up I had a yellow belt in ninjitsu, which is not very good, but I was definitely into 80s and 90s ninja movies on VHS, and we would dress up and run around the woods pretending to be ninjas. In the back of my mind I had always wanted to do a martial arts movie. And I remember at the Berlin Film Festival and his movies were winning all the awards and I got a mail from my agent that said “There’s this project I want you to look at” and I opened the email and opened the script and I was “Oh wow, wait a sec…Luc Besson who worked with Kamen, the writer of the Karate Kid, Fifth Element, and Taken, Luc Besson is already a legendary producer – I was already really excited. I’ve also done commercials before and I’ve done a lot of CGI based commercials so he saw the visual effects in that, basically. He saw comedy and action in Cockneys vs Zombies. So in the meantime, Luc was looking for a European filmmaker who could do comedy, action, and visual effects. ![]() a couple of years ago and I set up this box and I thought it was my next movie, but then I realized studios work at their own schedule. I was developing a few other projects, one of them a science fiction project called Capsule that was on the blacklist in L.A. Matthias: *laughing* No, you know what happened was that after my first movie, Cockneys vs Zombies, really to me I call it a cockney adventure with zombies, or an action adventure with zombies. I just wanted to know, how did that fall into your lap? It was written by Luc Besson, so did he call you up one day and say, “Hey, I want you to do this”? So you have a new movie coming out, Enter the Warrior’s Gate, which looks really good, by the way. Ronnie: We have a short amount of time here, so I just wanted to jump into it. ![]() Thanks for speaking with me, I appreciate it. Matthias Hoene: Ronnie! Scifi Monkeys! How are you?
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