What makesLogan Luckydifferent from Soderberghs previous star-studded heist movies is how its being released.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is your origin with the project?
I really couldnt bear the thought of somebody else getting to do it.
Credit: Michael Tacket/Fingerprint Releasing/Bleecker Street
Whats the plan, and what are those theories?By all standards, this is a studio movie.
Thats why there is no middle man.
There is no one taking a cut.
Bleecker Street
The money is coming directly back to the creative pool.
We formed Fingerprint Releasing to do this and to be able to export this to other filmmakers.
The economic model is pretty simple.
You sell the foreign to cover the cost of the [film] negative.
People have done this before.
All of the indicators are there, that I should be doing this.
Im excited about it creatively because its the kind of movie that I like to make.
Its the kind of movie that I like to see.
Some of these issues that Ive had in the past with the way movies are released can be mitigated.
It seemed like all green lights to me.
Its an anti-glam version of anOceansmovie.
Nobody has nice stuff.
They have no money.
They have no technology.
Its all rubber band technology, and thats what I thought was fun about it.
It seemed familiar to me, but different enough.
The landscape, the characters, and the canvass were the complete opposite of anOceansfilm.
Thats like a properOceansfilm.
This is a version of anOceansmovie thats up on cement blocks in your front yard.
How did the Coca-Cola 600 come into the picture?
Luckily, we started conversations with them very early.
And we immediately started conversations with NASCAR to get their assistance.
If we werent able to do what we did, I dont think we would have made the movie.
Its such a unique event that I dont know what solve we would have come up with.
How did the day go?It was great.
We had no problems.
It was all really well organized.
NASCAR took really great care of us.
I think we got everything we needed, and we didnt get in anybodys way.
It couldnt have gone any better.
That events pretty crazy.
The scale of it is massive, and on that day, we had five cameras running around.
But we had it all plotted out.
Everybody knew where they had to move at what point in the race and what they should be shooting.
We got all of the stuff we needed.
Youve come out of your retirement from feature films to make this.
We had to shoot 600 pages in 73 days.
Ive worked on some films with pretty aggressive schedules.
This was on another order of magnitude, and I was terrified.
I was sitting there on set, realizing that this is the job that I should be doing.
This is my job.I should be directing stuff.
Nobodys waiting around for my paintings.
So I kind of flipped a switch.
I got reconnected with what I like about the job.
For a while, I was just very, very happy to be working in that form.
I loved working with a ten-hour canvass.
If it hadnt, I think everything would be TV oriented.
I wouldnt have been as aggressive with the schedule onLoganprior toThe Knick.The Knickwas like CrossFit for directing.
Thats leisurely compared to what we had onThe Knick.
