Exclusive: Josh Hartnett tells us the pitch that convinced him to sign on to new action movie Fight or Flight
Josh Hartnett plays a mercenary on a mission in new action movie Fight or Flight, which looks like Bullet Train on a plane. His character, Lucas Reyes, is brought back into the line of duty after living on the run for several years as he's tasked with finding a mysterious criminal on a flight full of assassins.
Speaking to GamesRadar+, Hartnett says the movie has been a long time coming, but he was sold as soon as he read the script. "When we first started talking about the script it was 2021, and I hadn't seen anything like it at that point," he explains. "I didn't know that Bullet Train was coming out, which has a sort of similar concept of assassins on a train as opposed to a plane."
The big sell, the Oppenheimer star explains, was the style of the movie. "I liked the element of sort of '90s style comedy, action, it felt like a throwback, contained action film, and I liked the character too," he recalls. "I thought the character kind of just starting at the very bottom and trying to work him back up to a place where he had some dignity would be a lot of fun."
Trap star Josh Hartnett's wild new thriller Fight or Flight is designed to be "be an anti John Wick", but with the same killer action
by Elza Loures
Feb 17
Josh Hartnett plays a mercenary on a mission in new action movie Fight or Flight, which looks like Bullet Train on a plane. His character, Lucas Reyes, is brought back into the line of duty after living on the run for several years as he's tasked with finding a mysterious criminal on a flight full of assassins.
Speaking to GamesRadar+, Hartnett says the movie has been a long time coming, but he was sold as soon as he read the script. "When we first started talking about the script it was 2021, and I hadn't seen anything like it at that point," he explains. "I didn't know that Bullet Train was coming out, which has a sort of similar concept of assassins on a train as opposed to a plane."
The big sell, the Oppenheimer star explains, was the style of the movie. "I liked the element of sort of '90s style comedy, action, it felt like a throwback, contained action film, and I liked the character too," he recalls. "I thought the character kind of just starting at the very bottom and trying to work him back up to a place where he had some dignity would be a lot of fun."
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