Gunner Director Dimitri Logothetis on Luke Hemsworth & Action Mastery

Hey everybody, I'm Allison with FlickDirect and we are here to talk with the director of Gunner. Hello sir, how are you? I'm good Allison, how are you? I'm doing great. Tell me when you got this script what made you think, yeah let's do this, let's, I can bring something different to this. Well Gary Scott Thompson, who is an excellent writer, he wrote the Fast and Furious franchise and that's done pretty well.

And so, you know, he really focuses a lot on character and he creates a family and, you know, anytime you take on an action project, you have to care about the main character. And in this particular film, our main character is all about his family. Although he happens to be a special forces soldier and he comes home and he's trying to connect with his children.

So Gary has a wonderful way of creating this love for family. And I think that helps to take the movie forward, move the story forward and get everybody to care about our leading character played by Luke Hemsworth. And why was Luke the right person? Well, I've been following Luke's career for quite some time and he's a wonderful actor. He's a trained actor from the Academy down in Australia.

And so he, you know, I've just, I've just been seeing him and he's got that sort of pathos that I thought would be, he also happens to be a father of three, I'll tell you himself. And so I thought he'd be terrific for this role. I never expected his athleticism. He has a really great athleticism. He was able to pull off a lot of his own stunts, which as you know, is popular today, made by Tom Cruise.

So. I was going to say, I wonder when we're going to see him in a movie as he's going into the Paris Olympics. So. Oh, you know, I'm working on that. I'm working on that. I was thinking about lighting him on fire doing it. Excellent. I love that idea. Can he make it down the rope to the floor before the fire gets to him? We're going to love it. Yeah.

Come on, let's do it. Let's go. This character though, is so cool. He's so complex because he's flawed in a way. He's very broken for various reasons. Was there a time where you felt Luke nailed something specifically or that he, or you wanted him to do something differently? And when he did it a different way, it shocked you that it was just so good, but not what you had originally thought of?

Yes. I mean, of course, you know, you, you, it's got to be on the page and I have my own ideas, but I'm open. and willing and waiting for the actor to bring something to it. And Luke was just terrific. You're right. He is broken and he's trying to fix it. He's trying to do everything he can to fix the broken. And he's got a code, you know, and you have to have a certain code where you have your own moral standards that you have to meet.

And when it comes to family, I think all of us agree that we're willing to do anything to protect our family. Very, very true. Very quickly, there's so many different types of music in this. Where did you get all of those ideas from? Oh, my God. I worked with a producer by the name of Nobody. And that's his name. And I got to tell you, he's wonderfully talented.

When I started to talk to him about the different genres, because the music itself has to also bring another character to the film. Yes. And although we are an action film and that there's a lot of heaviness when it comes to the particular storyline, you still have to bring some lightness here and there. And I think he did a wonderful job in that regard, you know.

And I just told him the kind of music I like and the kind of music I thought would work in different places. And, you know, you take risks. Sometimes it's a little wild and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But I think for the most part, I think we hit it. I think this one really works very well. Thank you.