The best-selling Australian author has finally made it with Interceptor, a $21m action blockbuster for Netflix that looks like it cost a lot more. And best of all, he not only wrote this one, he directed it too karlkwin
– and the studios that have tempted him with the promise of bringing his bestselling novels to the screen. Which was, famously, the reason he started writing them in the first place.Now, the 47-year-old best-selling Australian author has finally made it witha $US15 million action blockbuster for Netflix that looks like it cost a lot more than that. And best of all, he not only wrote this one – he directed it too.
“Even though I’ve sold nearly nine million books around the world, and you could definitely say I’ve got established storytelling credentials, getting the script to actresses was so hard. But eventually, when Elsa got the script, and it was exactly what she was looking for, that brought Netflix into the picture. And Netflix was OK with me as a first-time director.”Surely they had their concerns too? “Their hearts were in their mouths,” he admits.
She always wanted to do action, she says. “I used to watch Indiana Jones movies with my dad and I wanted to be the female version. I was always a tomboy, very competitive with boys, trying to be stronger, do it better than them.” ‘Netflix is in the Chris Hemsworth business, but you don’t go making Chris’ wife’s movie just to keep Chris happy.′“That was just all me,” Pataky says with justifiable pride. “We had three takes, one really good one, and then Matt was like, ‘We have to do a fourth one’. And my shoulder was really sore, and I was like, ‘Matt I can’t do one more, that’s it’.”.
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