SXSW couldn’t care less about the Oscars last night as the resident Austin, TX studio filmmaker Robert Rodriguez screened his newest film, Hypnotic, to an ecstatic audience, which even had to turn away a drove of people. Hypnotic is still in progress as the film suffered many delays with Covid, three production shutdowns, getting served an insurance lawsuit, and the distributor of the film, Solstice Studios, had imploded. Through all the trouble, Deadline is reporting that the audience’s response to the incomplete film was “rapturous.”
Hypnotic is a change of style for Rodriguez. In it, Ben Affleck “plays a detective investigating a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.” As Rodriguez personally took questions from the audience (while coddling a baby Danny Trejo prop from Machete), he spoke about the inspiration for his style in this film being mainly Heat. Particularly how he shot the movie in widescreen,...
Hypnotic is a change of style for Rodriguez. In it, Ben Affleck “plays a detective investigating a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.” As Rodriguez personally took questions from the audience (while coddling a baby Danny Trejo prop from Machete), he spoke about the inspiration for his style in this film being mainly Heat. Particularly how he shot the movie in widescreen,...
- 3/13/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
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