Nathan wrote:I get the feeling that the budget was the same as Castle Falls and that the film was shot quite quickly. It doesn't feel rushed but it is short and sharp.
I have to check again but I think they had one more week to shoot on WM than they did on CASTLE FALLS.
Nathan wrote:What I can't get is how it took them so long to get funding. The premise is simple and commercial and as a Dolph action movie I'd have thought distributors would see it as a no-brainer. Especially as it was around the time of Missionary Man etc.
It's not that it took so long to get funding, it's more that a combination of factors played, and Dolph was going back and forth on it, and as we know he was also caught up in so many acting gigs post-EXPENDABLES.
Nu Image / Millennium was gonna make it circa 2009-2010 (as SKIN TRADE), then D no longer wanted to make movies for them (the EXPENDABLES sequels were the exceptions) so it turned around for a while... Then th focus was on SKIN TRADE. At some point, following ST, he wanted Ekachai Uekrongtham to direct it. Then a few years later we saw that CineTel (ICARUS) was pre-seeling it at Cannes... So all in all it's interesting that the project ultimately came back to Millennium...