Hostile Takedown (2005) (V)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Gil C. Carpenter

Writers:

William Dee Pierce (writer)
Devin Wesley (writer)

Release Date:

18 October 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

There's Only One Way For Things To Go Down

Cast

Keith Mayberry	...	Swirl
Tommy Phipps	...	Dennis
Devin Wesley	...	Alex

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Company:

Urban Pictures

Additional Crew For This Movie Glaringly Omitted

It's incredible that no other crew beyond director, producers, and writers are mentioned, since so many contributed to getting this particularly ambitious production back on budget and schedule. In my case, I was brought in as unit production coordinator, and discovered some pretty loose line producing on the crew end and some confounding prima donna attitudes on the cast end. After I put my foot down, cast and crew stated coming to the set closer to their call times and learning their lines. I was effective early on with rehearsing the cast in solving the structureof scenes--overlooked by the production team before I arrived--so they made more logical sense and flowed smoothly. I was also involved in twelfth hour casting for a supporting role when the original player cast flaked out. And one slacking supporting player started getting his act together for real when we created a character to handle a good 7/8 of the four pages of lines per shooting day that he couldn't seem to grasp. Certain prima donna and divas didn't quite appreciate it at the time, but they came around and thanked me at the first screening.