00:19¿Cómo se encuentran y cómo se terminan trabajando en algún film particular como este?
00:24We first, Renni and I first connected by phone. Renni contacted me because he had a passion for doing a
00:35movie, a war movie, about a Finnish from Finland, which is how you say it, a war hero, when Finland
00:43and Russia were at war, which most people don't know about.
00:47And then, you know, we kind of looked at each other. We're aware of each other. And then this script
00:52came up, which attracted us both and attracted all the creative, amazing creative people here.
00:59I'm not the only producer on the movie. And I will tell you the thing that attracted everybody is the
01:04script, the story. But that's a guideline.
01:09Sir Ben Kingsley, Academy Award winner, who's also been knighted by the King of England. It's the highest you can
01:17get. Great. Aaron Eckhart, multinational cast, actors of all ages, amazing stuntmen and all that kind of stuff.
01:27But Ben Kingsley and Aaron Eckhart would not commit to the movie until the question was answered. Who is directing
01:37the film? And that's where Renni comes in. Without Renni as the maestro, you have a chaotic symphony orchestra that
01:46doesn't play together.
01:49Sir, you can't do that! You worried about this? Renni, when you read the screenplay, what drew your attention? Because
02:00we have this plane crash, the shark, and a lot of stories are going on.
02:06It was really the character story. I felt like this was a kind of an homage to the kind of
02:13movies I grew up watching, which is this big disaster movie with a large cast of characters, people you get
02:20to know and you root for, and who take you on this incredible journey to human condition and human mind.
02:30And, of course, we wanted to show the biggest plane crash ever filmed and more shark attacks than any film
02:39has ever seen, but it was really the people in the center of the story that, to me, were the
02:45beating heart of the movie.
02:47And I really wanted the audience, when they go to the movie theater, to get really deeply emotionally involved.
02:53Except with the guys who smoke. I think everyone hates that guy.
02:57But I think also the secret to that guy is that he is a real human being, so it would
03:05be easy to discard a villain who is just a villain, and every moment he does anything he's a villain,
03:12but when he has also humanity, then you can see in him somebody you know or you've known in your
03:20lifetime, and all those emotions come up.
03:23He wanted to survive. He wanted to survive. He also has children.
03:28That's not the only asshole. Remember the asshole that picked on our Chinese team?
03:33Yes, also.
03:34Life is full of things, and what happens in real life is, while you're busy making your plans, life decides
03:44what it's going to be.
03:45So, this little, you know, because you saw the film, we don't want to ruin it for everybody, but assholes
03:51can sometimes get bit slapped and come out of their arrogant, self-centered thing,
03:57and understand there's a bigger idea, and they can be a better person.
04:01You know, life teaches you lessons. It's a really good script, but above and beyond the words, when our director
04:09felt that the dressing up of the characters wasn't quite right, he would change it.
04:14And if the dialogue wasn't quite right, he would change it, because, see, in the stock market and in investing
04:23money, there's such a thing as a futurist.
04:25A futurist bets on what the price of something is going to be in the future.
04:31They know what it's going to look like.
04:33So, you have to have the perspective, as a great director, to understand how all those pieces, music, actors, and
04:40everything, with a special fix, is going to work at the end.
04:44So, you can work towards that.
04:46There's so many moving pieces on this.
04:48It's amazing that it all flows so beautifully, and at the end, you come out and say, oh, my God,
04:54I survived.
04:56Tail down, 100 feet.
05:03How many days take you to shoot the whole sequence of the plane crash?
05:09Of course, scenes in movies are shot out of order and in different locations.
05:14We shot the plane in several different countries, built parts of it in different situations, on stage, on hydraulics, and
05:22in a water tank, and upside down, and vertical, and horizontal, and so on.
05:27So, it's pieced together from so many elements that it's hard to say in the end, but let's say the
05:33plane crash alone, I'm sure it was 25, even 30 days just for the plane crash.
05:39Totally worth it, really.
05:41Amazing sequence.
05:42I wanted it to feel so realistic, down to the detail of every bolt coming loose, and every switch being
05:51turned in the cockpit.
05:52I wanted the audience to believe in it, and not being able to deny it, or say it's just a
05:59plane thing, you know, like a movie plane crash.
06:03But I wanted them to say, okay, that's how I think it would happen in real life.
06:08The way I see it, they have one job to do, and that is to get home.
06:15Deepwater.
06:16If you want the epic thrills and chills of the biggest plane crash and the biggest shark attacks, with the
06:22emotion of characters, you will learn to love, and you will get the chills and thrills, you'll jump, you'll laugh,
06:31and I promise you, you'll cry, or your money back.
06:36Go see Deepwater in movie theaters, right now.
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