![]() ![]() Zoom meetings replaced conference rooms, and consumer tech doubled as film production equipment. After that, it was up to Lewis, his editor and a few others to turn it into a movie during a time of forced physical separation.įor awhile, Lewis made daily trips to an editing office in L.A., but began working remotely as the rest of the world moved that way. 28, 2020, and less than two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down daily American life. Production for “Willy’s Wonderland” wrapped almost exactly a year ago, on Feb. Charles Bronson in ‘Once Upon a Time in the West.’ Some of the early ‘Terminator’ movies.”īut making the movie was only part of the battle. Then you have the strong, silent, stoic, taciturn performances: laconic. Cage’s main character, The Janitor, is a silent drifter with no lines in the script, which was entirely by design, Lewis said.Ĭage, ever committed, said he studied “great performances from people who didn’t use any dialogue” in quotes provided to The Denver Post for this article. With hand-built sets and a tight, two-week shooting schedule that covered seven or eight pages of script per day, Lewis, Cage and their team tore through shot lists and camera setups like people possessed. He’s proud of his quickly made movie, given that it was produced partly under pandemic restrictions and on a limited budget, and partly because he beat a life-threatening COVID-19 infection just before its release (more on that later). Lewis, who grew up watching big-screen movies at southeast Denver’s Continental Theater, describes himself as a fanboy of ’80s genre films, especially the vaunted comedy-horror category (“Evil Dead,” “Fright Night,” etc.). Basically, leave your brain at the door.” “We wanted this to be a fun B-movie that would play as a Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness film - something where you know what you’re getting from the title. “This isn’t ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ ” director Lewis joked over the phone from Los Angeles. “Kevin Lewis’ giant-furry-funhouse-mascot slasher movie knows how preposterous it is but plays it straight,” Variety’s Owen Gleiberman wrote in his review of the wide-release movie, which had its Denver premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Sloan’s Lake this month, and which is still screening in-person at Harkins Northfield 18. Saturday, April 29th 2023 Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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