Custom image of Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin panicked in Brothers for Q&A
The Big Picture For years, audiences have called for Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage to star opposite each other as siblings in some form or fashion. The likeness, some say, is uncanny , so why not put two Hollywood forces together and see what crops up? Enter Palm Springs director Max Barbakow and writers Etan Cohen and Macon Blair with Brothers, a fresh, Prime Video original comedy that stars a stacked cast.
MAX BARBAKOW: I saw an ad for a masterclass with Werner on IndieWire — this is after I finished film school at AFI — and applied and got in. It was essentially three weeks with, like, 49 other filmmakers from around the world at the national film school in Cuba. He gave us a prompt, which was “through a window,” and you were supposed to just go make films out in the bush, in the town, around the campus. It was great. It was an incredible experience.BARBAKOW: It was perfect.
We'd had a test screening where I sat in the back and I couldn't hear the laughs, and I told myself I would never sit in the back of another screening because I didn't know how it played. Of course, at Sundance, you get up, and you intro the movie, and then I'm put in the back. So, I knew we got a laugh at the top of the movie because The Lonely Island Classics card came up, and I was like, “Alright, this is going well,” and then the arrow hits, and that was a laugh.
BARBAKOW: It was great because. I mean, the pandemic hit, too, so I did a lot, and I did more than I could probably have fit in a day because I was doing them over Zoom. I got to meet a lot of great people and got to see how this business works in a way and who's out there making stuff. You have to remember to kind of get back to work after a while because you could spend a lot of time meeting people and having speculative conversations.
BARBAKOW: Indeed, yeah. I mean, I have a big noggin, as well, so that's as good a reason as any to do a movie. BARBAKOW: No, it’s real. Brolin called up Dinklage, and said, “Hey, dude, we both have big heads. We should play brothers.” From there, they developed the movie. By the time I got it, Macon had got his fingers into it, and it was all very authentic. M. Emmet Walsh Was “Twisted and Fearless” on the Set of ‘Brothers’ “It was a really special experience.” So I have to touch on this.
When you're working with people like this who are very, very talented actors, what is it like as a director giving direction? Those first few days, are you a little nervous? What's going through your mind? Towards the end of the shoot, how does it change? Glenn Close Mooned the Cast of ‘Brothers’ What do you think would surprise people to learn about the actual making of the film?
Related 'Secret Headquarters' Becomes Most-Watched Original Movie on Paramount+ The film stars Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, Jesse Williams, and Michael Peña, among others. BARBAKOW: This movie is a little under 90 minutes, which I think is a good length for it. The cut I showed was a little longer. BARBAKOW: No, no, no, probably, like, 1:50, something like that. There were scenes that were lifted out of here. There's more Taylour Paige stuff that's on the cutting room floor. It just always helps to know where the laughs are, as well.
BARBAKOW: This is kind of tangentially related, but we did a lot of French hours on this movie just because of the weather and problems that we had with schedule, which means we didn't break for lunch and we had walking lunches. Everybody had a chance to eat and it was very nice. I really enjoyed that. I think everybody did because we didn't have to break and come back. We just were more efficient about our time.
BARBAKOW: We're working on it. It's fun. It's going well. We're using that genre and device much in the way that we use the time loop in Palm Springs to hopefully tread new territory with it. BARBAKOW: Totally. Absolutely. They're doing each other in a way, but then they're also these icons. We all have an idea of them in our imagination and in the popular lexicon, so you wanna play on that too, and them doing versions of each other in that respect. It's really fun.BARBAKOW: I'm all over the place. That's the main one, but it's helpful for me to turn it off and look to other stuff. So, yeah, there are a lot of irons.
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