00:00You know, I almost blew it.
00:02In what way?
00:03As soon as I got on the set and there was all three Spider-Mans,
00:06I was like this.
00:07Ah, we up in here, baby, about to go live!
00:15Guys, good to see you again. How are you doing?
00:17Back at you, man.
00:18Back at you, baby.
00:20You both have experience bringing original movies to Netflix,
00:23and streaming is the way that so many audience members are taking in new films.
00:27Jamie, I'm curious, is opening day any different for a streaming movie
00:31versus when it's going to theaters?
00:33Do you hear from more people who are telling you that they're checking your new movie out?
00:36It depends on how good it is.
00:37It depends on how good the trailer is.
00:39I tell them all the time, we're not in the movie business.
00:41We're in the movie trailer business.
00:42Our trailer for this movie overperformed.
00:47It did 19 million views in less than 24 hours.
00:51That's pretty big when you look at the landscape of all these movies that come out.
00:57Money.
00:57And I think it's because J.J. Perry, whose forte is action,
01:03and that opening scene of me pulling the shotgun and shooting the old grandmother,
01:09people are like, what is this?
01:10So it had a real wow factor.
01:11So there is a difference, though.
01:13When you're trying to get people to the theater, of course,
01:15there's more elbow grease, especially coming out of a pandemic and things like this.
01:19But you'd be surprised.
01:21You can't take the audience for granted.
01:23You can't even take an audience for granted that's sitting at home.
01:26So we want to do as much as we can to get people to hit that subscription
01:30and see something we think that's just really, like, I think it's really amazing in first time.
01:37We dropped Power on Netflix around the same time this movie is dropping.
01:43Works every time.
01:44So I'm excited to be in J.J. Perry's debut movie.
01:49And I'm also excited to be with this young man next to me who I said I'm not going to
01:53do the movie unless he's in the movie,
01:55because he brings so much to it.
01:57And to watch his talents flourish in this has just been amazing.
02:02Hey, hey, don't you puke in here.
02:04I swallowed it.
02:05Dave, at one point in Day Shift, you referred to your characters as a team as Crocken and Tubbs.
02:10And I'm just curious if you're referring to the 2006 Michael Mann masterpiece
02:15and you think Bud just looks like Jamie Foxx, the actual actor.
02:19There was there was some thought that went into that.
02:21I mean, you know, the movie, the movie's a little cheeky.
02:24It kind of fits the tone of the movie for people who kind of dig deep like that.
02:30But yeah, I mean, the movie from the get go, it's like it doesn't take itself too seriously.
02:35It wants you to have a good time.
02:37It's it's got practical effects that are a little a little campy in the best way possible.
02:42It feels a little old school, a little throwback.
02:44And so I think that specific joke just tied in nicely with it all.
02:49Welcome to the day shift, motherfucker.
02:51Hi, J.J. How are you?
02:53What's up, Sean? What's up, my brother?
02:55Can you do me a favor and take me through the conversations of how you guys tried to figure out
02:59how many different ways you can behead someone?
03:04You know, all the years of being on the road is an action director, an action guy.
03:08I pitch so many directors, so many things.
03:11And a lot of them go, no, no, no.
03:12I just throw them back in my bag of tricks.
03:15And, you know, after after 32 years of having this bag of tricks,
03:19when I dumped it out on the floor, there were a lot of nuggets in there, brother.
03:22And I didn't use them all.
03:23So hang on until we get to if we get a sequel.
03:26Right.
03:26I'm going to take up another level.
03:28All the heads are coming off.
03:30It's all heads are going to roll, baby.
03:32It's not eclipse.
03:33New moon breaking down point one.
03:35It ain't like that.
03:36All right.
03:37Why do you know the names to all the specific Twilight films?
03:39You do a shot in this movie that I had to go back and rewatch about a half dozen times.
03:44It's in the middle of a car chase and it comes out of the sunroof of the car.
03:49Walk me through that.
03:50How did you do that?
03:51And why did you choose to do it in that moment?
03:54So, I've been doing a lot of car chases in my career and the Russian Arm is a pursuit
04:00or a precision vehicle that has a crane arm and a remote head on it.
04:04Became a tool in the cinema in the mid 80s, I believe, or late 80s.
04:09So, that changed the perspective of car chases, of vehicular chases.
04:13And it was the gold standard up until three years ago.
04:17Okay.
04:17Until the FPV drone hit.
04:20Nobody's quite nailed it.
04:23Ambulance did a good job.
04:24I think we did pretty good.
04:25But what I've done now is I've been working with that drone company
04:29and his name's Tommy Tibiato.
04:31We've been R&Ding things.
04:32I just had him in Puerto Rico on this other second unit.
04:34I will reinvent vehicle chases with that drone when I get my next move.
04:40It's coming.
04:41I've already R&Ded the shots.
04:42I can't tell you because the other action directors listening will steal it from me.
04:46But that perspective of being in the over, in the backseat, in an over,
04:51throwing it out and all of a sudden the whole world is, you know,
04:54and then diving back in on it.
04:57That, for me, it was a game changer.
04:59And, you know, I asked the kid, Tommy, I was like,
05:01hey, Bubba, so if I was in the backseat of a car with gloves on,
05:04could I throw the drone out of the car if it checked up in a slide?
05:06And he goes, well, yeah, I think so.
05:10I said, let's go try it.
05:11And we tested it.
05:12I have all the tests on my phone.
05:13So that's where it was born.
05:14It was born at Starbucks in Culver City talking about ideas.
05:19You know what I see when I see a van?
05:21Big ol' dollar sign.
05:24Jamie, you're talking about bringing people back to theaters.
05:26This movie Over My Shoulder did just that.
05:28And we covered a lot of stories about Andrew Garfield,
05:31Tobey Maguire going back and seeing themselves.
05:32Did you get to go back and see No Way Home with an audience?
05:35The return of Max Dillon.
05:38Man, it was crazy.
05:39It was like a rock concert when we did that film.
05:44It was like, and I thought Sony did a fantastic job of mystique.
05:48You know what I'm saying?
05:49Holding things, keeping things.
05:51You know, I almost blew it.
05:53In what way?
05:54As soon as I got on the set and there was all three Spider-Mans,
05:57I was like this.
05:58Ah, we up in here, baby, about to go live.
06:01And somebody just dove on me like I was a fire.
06:03Man, what the fuck?
06:04What the hell?
06:05No one's supposed to know.
06:06Okay, my bad.
06:07Okay, we ain't supposed to know that all three of them are here.
06:10But I think that they did a great job in doing that,
06:12bringing some mystique.
06:13And I think that that's what was needed to get people back in the theater.
06:17And I think that same muscle that's flexed in Spider-Man gets flexed here,
06:23where you see these incredible stunts, you see this incredible comedy,
06:26and you see incredible cast like Snoop and us all in the same situation.
06:34And so that's why we're happy.
06:37No matter where it is, we're just happy that our art is getting out there.
06:42So what's on the agenda today?
06:44Close your eyes, my eyes are closed.
06:49Like every day, hunting vampires.
06:53It just strikes me that because Jamie and Dave both have recent experience directing.
06:58So I'm curious if that meant that they were over your shoulder a ton,
07:01and asking a bunch of questions or absorbing.
07:04I welcome that because I feel like the more directors you have on set,
07:10especially, let me rephrase it,
07:12the more good directors you have on set that care about the project,
07:15that care about every frame that you're shooting, the better.
07:19Yeah.
07:19You know, so Jamie is not just an amazing talent, singer, actor, entertainer.
07:24He was also a producer on my film,
07:25and he was also a huge asset in shooting the film and in post.
07:30And Dave too, like always coming with great ideas.
07:33And, you know, I have a very open forum as far as, you know, ideas.
07:38Look, I don't pretend to be the smartest guy in the room.
07:40I think if you're in the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room.
07:43And I always end up in the right room,
07:45because I always end up somehow being the dumbest guy in the room.
07:47So I ended up okay on that one.
07:49I can't wait to see both of you guys continue as directors.
07:52I'm really intrigued by both of your storytelling abilities.
07:55Jamie, when are we going to see something from All-Star Weekend?
07:57Man, it's been tough, you know, with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy, man.
08:04You know, we're trying to break open those sensitive corners where people go back to laughing again.
08:12And that's why I think even in this film, which is great,
08:16is like the one thing we kept hearing in the screen is how much people were laughing.
08:21So hopefully we'll keep them laughing and run them into All-Star Weekend,
08:25because we were definitely going for it.
08:27God help me!
08:32Vampires just tried to kill me, and now I just pissed my favorite fucking-
08:36Hey, hey, hey, everybody pisses themselves the first time.
08:39Really? But do you?
08:40No, I didn't, but listen, you did.
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