EXCLUSIVE Interview With RED 2 Screenwriters Jon & Erich Hoeber (2024)

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EXCLUSIVE Interview With RED 2 Screenwriters Jon & Erich Hoeber (1)

I sat down with screenwriters Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, the original writing team for Red, and we discussed in detail their new film, Red 2. They also share some information about a scene that was written for the late and great actor, Ernest Borgnine.

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By nailbiter111 -Jun 23, 2013 11:06 PM EST

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EXCLUSIVE Interview With RED 2 Screenwriters Jon & Erich Hoeber (2)

:35 - Importance of setting (Erich first to respond.)
1:40 - Were any international settings planned but weren't used in the film (Jon first to respond)
2:00 - Were the international locations used to take advantage of the overseas box office
3:50 - Clever Bruce Willis scene in which he was put in a confined space
5:30 - Do they try to avoid watching other films while writing a script
7::15 - Discuss the difference between their film and the graphic novel
8:30 - How unusual it is that they are the only screenwriters that have worked on the script
9:25 - Did they have certain actors in mind while writing Red 2
10:50 - How does their writing team work
12:00 - Do they like to start from the end
13:00 - They wrote a scene for the late Ernest Borgnine
14:40 - What did Dean Parisot (director) do that enhanced their script
15:50 - The importance of Mary-Louise Parker's role
17:30 - Favorite scene in the film - Frog interrogation
18:00 - Discuss using flashbacks
18:55 - Hint at Red 3

EXCLUSIVE Interview With RED 2 Screenwriters Jon & Erich Hoeber (3)


RED 2 - "Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device." The film was directed by Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest"), from a screenplay written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. It stars: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, David Thewlis, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough, Byung-hun Lee and Mary-Louise Parker. Red 2 hits theaters July 19, 2013.

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TheDetectiveComicRises -6/24/2013,5:22 AM

2nd film for DC Comics this years pretty cool I enjoyed the first one will go check it out :)

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