00:00There was a 2004 film adaptation of Man on Fire.
00:04Did either of you take any inspiration from the film adaptation for this?
00:08Or did you feel like you were kind of trying to create your own reimagining of the story?
00:11It's a great opportunity to take inspiration.
00:14You know, I've been a part of things that, you know, part twos and sequels and reimaginings and all those
00:20things.
00:20The smart thing to do is to, I think, would be to look at it and to say, what worked?
00:24Take a closer look and to not stop at saying, OK, what did these actors do?
00:28What did the director do?
00:30But what was the essence?
00:31You know, what was what did the audiences respond to?
00:34For myself, when I look at the earlier works, I see a lot of heart.
00:40I see a lot of soul.
00:41So I say, OK, well, that's something that I can take.
00:46And that's just that's just really doing intelligent field research and then applying it to what we're doing this time
00:51around.
00:51There's a couple of huge ghosts in the room when you talk about these about about this project and Tony
00:56Scott and Denzel Washington.
00:58I didn't want to give myself any obstacles.
01:03I like to stack the cards in my favor, you know, when I get up and when I go to
01:08work.
01:08And, you know, I was fortunate enough to be able to work in that way and have have a creative
01:15partner who also found a healthy degree of inspiration.
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