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SSH HOLLYWOOD The Enforcer Words Glenn Cochrane lhe Enforcer's title character (played by | Antonio Banderas) puts his career, and life, on the line to help a teenage girl escape from his boss's nefarious cybersex- traffic operation. It's a highly stylised and pulse-pounding action-thriller from Millennium Media, the company responsible for hits like The Expendables, Rambo and The Hitman's Bodyguard, amongst others Thanks to his older and more established brother, Patrick Hughes (director of The Expendables 3 and The Man from Toronto), as well as building his reputation as a scriptwriter, Richard Hughes formed a relationship with the people at Millennium. Speaking with STACK over Zoom, he recalls the moment when his world changed. “| was driving trucks just to pay the rent at that stage,” he recalls of the pandemic. “| had kept in contact with the studio head, Yariv Lerner, and he called me up one day. | was camping in Wye River and | got a message from him saying, ‘Hey, can you get to some reception?’ So | went onto the Lorne pier” he laughs. : stack.com.au ENCOUNTERING THE EXPENDABLES “| had a feeling something good was happening, because nothing good had happened in over a year. And he says [down the phone], ‘Do you want to direct an action movie with Antonio Banderas? We're shooting in five weeks. “Iwas like, ‘Ahhh, yeah, what's the script?’ And he sent it to me, and then | drove down to Melbourne that night. | had to make some changes to it. It was a cool script, but it was a little bit dated. It was written like fifteen years ago." The original Enforcer script was written by Hollywood scribe W. Peter Iliff, who gave the world Point Break, Patriot Games and Varsity Blues, amongst others. “Point Break, how big can you get?” Hughes says with astonishment when we ask about lliff's involvement. “A titan! He sent me a lovely email saying that he wrote the screenplay 15 years ago and had been trying to get it up and going. He even said to me, ‘Man, | watched your short films online and | loved them! And | was like, ‘Oh my god, this is Peter Iliff!’ It was an absolute honour to take it off his hands." Hughes also relished the thought of working with Antonio Banderas. “I did wonder what he would be like. | assumed everyone goes up to him saying, ‘Desperado, Desperado, he laughs. “And when | had dinner with him he told me that they made Desperado on a budget of $300,000, and people who were shot in that movie were shot multiple times. They put wigs on them and used different angles. “So everyone's sort of been on the same journey, and it was great to hear that from him. But he's one of the kindest, nicest people in the industry that I've met. He's a class act and he puts so much passion into it. He also had a lot of patience with me, understanding that it was my first feature film” © jbhificom.au (ii HIFFE
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