He brought some good comedic moments, and also some badass action and fighting scenes, so all in all, he did great. He got ripped for Deadlock, and when I worked with him before, he was really skinny. Patrick is great, I'd worked with him already years ago on a movie called Little Red Dotting Hood, so we were friends for years. For that, we had Bruce, Mike Tyson, Thomas Jane, Theo Rossi, and that was a pretty fun one, too. I did another movie with him afterward called Vendetta, which we shot only a few months after Deadlock. You've got a screen legend showing up and you're directing the movie, and I really enjoyed working with him. Jared Cohn: It was a fun time working with Bruce, he and I did everything to make the movie smooth. What was it like making Deadlock with the cast of the movie, which includes Bruce Willis and Patrick Muldoon? It's one of those mechanical marvels of the world that you don't really think too much about, but to actually be out there, seeing the force of the water, how cool the location is, seeing the turbines spinning, it's just the massive, massive power-creating apparatus. Jared Cohn: It was a really, really cool film on a real water dam. Other than dealing with the pandemic, what really stood out to you about the making of Deadlock? The only thing that happened in regards to COVID was that one of the actors that was cast got COVID before we started, so we had to recast that role. This was pre-vaccine, so they were shoving Q-tips up our noses every other day, but luckily, nobody got sick. The production was very much on top of it in terms of getting tested. At that point, we went into pre-production, and we finally shot it in Georgia.ĭid you have to contend with the pandemic at all during the making of Deadlock? Eventually, the script got in the right hands, and one thing led to another in terms of getting Bruce, and that sort of gave it the greenlight. Jared Cohn: I wrote a script called Reactor, and I was pitching it and starting to connect with producers, and along the way, I did numerous rewrites. Screen Rant: How did Deadlock first come about? We speak to Jared Cohn on the making of Deadlock, working with Muldoon and Willis on the film, and the challenges of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic during production. The film is scheduled to be released in select US theaters and on VOD on December 3, 2021.RELATED: Bruce Willis' Favorite Movies (Including His Top Horror) Saban Films acquired the North American and UK rights to the film in June 2020. Distributor : Saban Films / Première TV Distributionĭeadlock is produced by Corey Large and Johnny Messner.Production : 308 Ent / BondIt Media Capital / Buffalo 8 Productions / Head Gear Films / Kreo Films FZ / Metrol Technology / Yale Productions.Starring : Bruce Willis / Patrick Muldoon.Deadlock stars Bruce Willis and Patrick Muldoon. – Deadlock 2021.ĭeadlock is an American action thriller film directed by Jared Cohn (God’s Club, Wishing for a Dream, Swim, Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash), from a screenplay written by Cam Cannon and Jared Cohn. With a nearby town on the brink of massive flooding and destruction, it’s up to one retired elite army ranger Mack Karr (Patrick Muldoon) to save thousands of innocent lives before it’s too late. Convinced that the government is working against them, the group seizes an energy plant and holds everyone inside hostage. A wanted c-nal named Ron Whitlock (Bruce Willis) leads a team of mercenaries on a mission of vengeance.
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