1/5/2024 0 Comments Hobo with a shotgun game![]() Where did the look and concept of The Plague come from? RC: Especially those worlds that create their environment on the street. I just love those crazy high-concept worlds. I just love those worlds The Warriors is my favorite movie of all-time. ![]() Movies like Street Trash, The Warriors, Dead End Drive-In, Savage Streets, those were all pretty huge influences. JE: It comes from a lot of our influences, from exploitation movies of the past. What were your influences on creating the look of Hobo with a Shotgun? It’s a very gritty, grungy film. ![]() We hit it off and next thing we knew, he was in Halifax with us making the film. Then a couple days, they got the script to his agent and the next thing I knew I was having a Skype conversation with him. It just felt cool to write his name down, and thinking “there’s no way in hell we’re never going to get him.” But it’s going to get people an idea as to the kind of person we wanted to try and get. He just felt natural, and he was unanimously the number one pick. The movie is very much a Western and I wanted to bring that class and style of a Western character, and Rutger was all class and style. And growing up, Rutger Hauer was my favorite actor. JE: Alliance told us to make a list of the top five actors we’d like to have to play the main role just go off and list our dream people. How did you get Rutger Hauer to star in Hobo with a Shotgun? It’s such an easy thing making something called Hobo with a Shotgun anyone could come up with their own ideas for a movie with that title. We wrote like 27 different drafts of the script, so it became something different than it was originally intended to be. It didn’t take long to bang out the first draft of the script, but it’s become a completely different beast. We met a producer named Niv Fitchman who got behind us and supported us to make the film. We thought it might make a cool short film at first, but when we saw the reaction of the people online and they were demanding we make a feature film, we were like “fuck, why don’t we just go out and shoot it with our friends?” It wasn’t until we got a call from Alliance, our Canadian distributor, and they wanted to fly us up to Toronto to talk about the idea of making it a feature film. JE: We heard about the contest, we got together immediately that day and we basically wrote a treatment as to what the whole idea would be about and we’d pick our moments of what we’d wanna use for the trailer. Hobo with a Shotgun, as many people know, began as a fake trailer for a contest at SXSW back in 2007. I don’t know maybe later down the road we can get the chance to work with him. And I was thinking “that’s a lot of who The Drake is he can command an audience and spread fear.” He was my first thought when it came to The Drake, but while we were in the middle of trying to get him, we got an audition from Brian Downey and it was just so fuckin’ awesome that we just kind of forgot about Jake. He wasn’t a crazy physical guy, but he could control an audience just by his presence. JE: Jake “The Snake” Roberts is one of my favorite wrestlers of all-time I think he’s probably one of the best actor-wrestlers of all-time. What part were you thinking for him and why didn’t it end up working out? TFS: I talked to you on Twitter about a month ago and you had said you had tried to get professional wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts for a part in Hobo with a Shotgun. Check it out below and see Hobo With a Shotgun on VOD today. In the midst of SXSW, Hobo with a Shotgun writer/director Jason Eisener and producer Rob Cotterill made some time to sit down with TFS for a few minutes and discuss the film.
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