comicbook: I know this is based on true events, but I was wondering how did you sort of frame it; I’m sure some of it isn’t. It’s fictionalized for drama, and I was wondering, you know, what’s true and what’s not?
Frank Darabont: It’s an excellent, excellent question because this is honestly the loosest adaptation I’ve ever done. It’s not in any way to disregard John Buntin’s book because it really is the inspiration for everything. It’s really a good book, definitely our touchstone. I gave myself license very early on to just make up as much of I felt we needed to make up to tell the most entertaining, good sort of meaty, you know, mob story, good, pulpy, good, noir stuff.
I mean that’s the promise that I wanted to deliver on, and not turn it into sort of the, you know, the Masterpiece Theater docudrama version of events. So, yeah we’ve thrown caution to the wind on this one. Bless his heart John is abundant; he seems to be definitely enjoying the fact that we’ve done that. So we’re weaving fictional elements very much into the non-fictional historical elements and having a blast doing it. Hello? I hope I didn’t lose this call.
comicbook: I wanted to ask about Jon. He’s a great choice, but I’m seeing it after the fact and recognizing how great a choice. What was it that made you know beforehand that he’d be so right for this?
Darabont: You know, when I first started working with Jon some years ago, the first time I worked with him I had the thought in my head, if I ever get to do a Noir project, I’m going to want him to play my Noir hero. I’m going to want him to play my lead, because he’s got that very period feel to me. He doesn’t come off as like, you know, like a contemporary guy.
Plus, he’s got this tremendously quiet, masculine, it’s not forced; it’s not, you know, showboat, but he’s got this very testosterone kind of masculinity that’s quiet, and it’s genuine and it feels like such a throwback to me to Robert Mitchum and John Garfield.
You know, an earlier era of actor, of actor, of men who came up in tougher circumstances during the great depression, and fought in those wars, and just had to go out, you know, get through life as best they could without making a big deal out of it. You know, it’s just such a throwback aspect to it. He so reminds me of those guys and those generations.
So for me it was, you know, just a self-evident marriage of, you know, a certain kind of story that I wanted to tell. This actor who would be so, you know, perfect to tell that story.
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