5/6/2023 0 Comments The go getters castThe film had been passed around Hollywood so quickly, and this was before YouTube. We shot it on May 1, and by June 10 I was in a hotel room in Chicago when my agent called and said, “You should watch CNN at 3 o’clock,” and I was on TV. The thing was so ridiculously successful because of the cult of Star Wars, it was unbelievable. It was a two-day shoot, and it was really fun. It’s a funny little satire, and we think you look like a young George Lucas.” I’m not a Star Wars fan, so he had to explain to me why things were funny, but I said OK. I got a call at some point from a guy named Joe Nussbaum and he told me “We’re making this film George Lucas in Love. Before I went to film school I was an actor, and at the time I still fancied myself something like a goy-ish version of Woody Allen. I was a grad student at USC and I used to act. COURTESY PEACE ARCH RELEASING.įilmmaker: OK, before we get started, let’s just get rid of the elephant in the room: you were George Lucas in George Lucas in Love. Ward), and lush 35mm cinematography, but what makes it work so beautifully is that these elements exist not for show but to better tell the story, which has a clarity and emotional resonance that takes Hynes’ movie well beyond the ordinary.įilmmaker spoke to Hynes about his move away from acting, the roots of The Go-Getter, and abandoning his lead actor while shooting guerrilla-style in Mexico.ĭIRECTOR MARTIN HYNES TALKS WITH STARS ZOOEY DESCHANEL AND LOU TAYLOR PUCCI DURING THE MAKING OF THE GO-GETTER. The Go-Getter is, in essence, the perfect indie road movie: it has all the requisites, such as offbeat characters, an evocative soundtrack (by M. The journey is punctuated by Mercer’s quirky encounters with the people he meets on the road, such as his childhood crush, Joely (Jena Malone), his half-brother’s ex-colleague (Judy Greer) and ex-lover (Maura Tierney) – and Kate (Zooey Deschanel), the surprisingly unperturbed owner of the car he stole. A feeling of poignancy and loss underpins this individualistic road movie, the story of Mercer (Lou Taylor Pucci), a young man who steals a car to drive across the country and tell his half brother that their mother has died. Hynes’ directorial return, The Go-Getter, was inspired by his emotional response to the death of his mother and the collapse of his marriage soon after. Subsequently, Hynes has focused on writing: he sold a spec script, Stealing Stanford (which, in 2002, was made into a very different film as Stealing Harvard), and on commission penned the Martin Lawrence vehicle Expiration Date and a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man. He made his feature debut with the Woody Allen-esque romantic comedy The Big Split (1999), which he wrote, directed and co-starred in opposite Judy Greer. He then enrolled in the graduate film program at USC where he not only made the highly-regarded short Al As In Al (1995) but played the eponymous lead in Joe Nussbaum’s cult favorite George Lucas in Love (1999). A native of Eugene, Oregon, Hynes studied history at Columbia before embarking on a career as an actor and sketch comedian. Though best known for playing a legendary director on screen, Martin Hynes seems destined to become an auteur in reality as well. LOU TAYLOR PUCCI IN DIRECTOR MARTIN HYNES’S THE GO-GETTER.
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