Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’

Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’

“Before we filmed the scene Mike came up to me and said, ‘You think this scene is pretty funny,’” says Nichols. “I did. But Mike didn’t. Those are the same words I wrote. But when Mike Shannon does it, it means more. He deepens it. I think about Mike a lot any time I read a book or do something that somebody wants me to do. I wouldn’t be here talking to you if Mike didn’t show up for Shotgun Stories. If he wasn’t inthe movie wouldn’t be as good as it is.

Nichols’s screenplay unfolds as a kind of love triangle between Benny, a hothead played by Austin Butler, his girlfriend, played by Jodie Comer, and the gang leader, played by Tom Hardy.David Puttnam: ‘The Irish invented immigration and went through every single form of the immigrant experience’“I’ve had the book so long – and been listening to the interviews, because I got the actual tapes from Danny Lyon,” Nichols says.

The skirmishing half-siblings of Shotgun Stories recalled the historic feud of the Hatfield and McCoy families of the late 19th century. Nichols’s film Mud riffed on Huckleberry Finn, with Matthew McConaughey playing a wanted criminal who befriends two boys. The romance of The Bikeriders, with its references to The Wild One and good-looking folks on motorbikes, is a northern journey away from the writer-director’s typically southern gothic milieu.

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