Drew Goddard on How ‘Bad Times’ is His Love Letter to the Crime Thriller
69Drew Goddard on How ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ is His Love Letter to the Crime Thriller
One of my most anticipated movies later this year is Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale. It’s Goddard’s first feature as a director since The Cabin in the Woods and after seeing about fifteen minutes of the movie at an early press day, which featured one of the coolest tracking shots I’ve seen in a long time, I can say with a tremendous amount of confidence the film is going to be worth the wait.
If you’re just hearing about Bad Times at the El Royale now, the film follows seven strangers in 1969 who end up at the mysterious El Royale hotel and are offered a shot at redemption before everything goes to hell. Among the gathered rogues: a down-on-his-luck priest (Jeff Bridges), a singer named Darlene Sweet (Cynthia Erivo), an impressionable Southern girl (Cailee Spaeny) and her older sister (Dakota Johnson), a vacuum cleaner salesman (Jon Hamm), and — perhaps most enigmatic — a charismatic cult leader, played by Chris Hemsworth.
At an early press day for the film, I got to sit down with Goddard for an exclusive video interview. He talked about how the film is his love letter to the crime thriller, why it took so long for him to get back in the director’s chair, being visually ambitious with the film, how he got Michael Giacchino to do the soundtrack, the intense planning that went into pulling off the amazing tracking shot that involves most of the cast, the status of the X-Force movie, and a lot more. Check out what he had to say in the player above.
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