Carnahan's Dozen

Joe Carnahan is awesome. Not only is he a frequent blogger and giver-awayer of free scripts, he also makes films that are half-way decent! To further hammer home his awesomeness he's answered 12 burning questions from IESB.net. Head on over to the site to read the full interview. Meanwhile, here's a few parts that might interest OWF readers: On giving away the Killing Pablo script on his site:

"Putting something like the Killing Pablo screenplay on my blog doesn't bother me in the least. I think more demystification is what this business needs. Everybody's worried about 'seeing the strings' and I think that's a bunch of bullshit. I'm as big a movie fan as the next guy and I get geeked at behind the scenes stuff like that. I got to talk Blade Runner with Ridley Scott in France once and I was always struck by his completely matter-of-fact way in discussing it. He's an artist, not a lockbox. By sharing our craft or how we think and work, it doesn't cheapen the effect, if anything, I feel like it enhances the experience."

On dropping out of M:I-3:

"I would rather create my own franchise. I've always thought what Larry and Andy Wachowski did with The Matrix was the way to play it. Build your own world. It's so much more exciting than swimming in somebody else's wake. Not that I don't love some of those franchises but the idea of doing it myself is so much more alluring. I think the last Bourne film is the best of the series and if you're going to do something like Mission Impossible and you're not doing it at that level, then what's the point?"

On Common as Green Lantern:

"This question was such a surprise to me, that I literally called Common after I read it and he said he was indeed in the running and it looked good. I couldn't be happier for him."

On him doing a comic book film (which I think is a great idea, and he should bring in his brother to write it):

"I think the only one knocking around now that I would love to take a shot at would be Captain America because I think that story, if contemporized, could kick ass."

source - iesb