Director Martin Hynes, the filmmaker behind the excellent and modest indie-road trip film, “The Go-Getter,” has been kind enough to give us a lot of his time, so we’ve got a few stories to roll out about the film and what he’s up to next.
Featuring Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel and Jenna Malone, “The Go Getter” comes out in limited releases June 6, and Hynes – who also directed the 1999 film “The Big Split,” and starred as a young George Lucas in the indie feature “George Lucas in Love” – is already looking ahead to his next feature which he hopes to shoot next year.
Inspired by the early films of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai (“Fallen Angels,” “Chung King Express”), his lush DP Christopher Doyle, the loose energy of French New Wave and the Black Keys song, “10 AM Automatic” (featured in ‘Go-Getter’), Hynes next film will be titled “4 AM Automatic” (10 AM was too late, “4am works because of this whole insomnia motif this girl
goes through,” he said).
“I wrote this funky, romantic thriller and I set it in Portland and here’s this whole element of the afterlife that’s very matter of fact nd not hokey,” Hynes explained trying to to give away too much.
He and his own excellent director of photography, Byron Shah have already shot, 10,000 ft of experimental test footage to which they scored to a Panda Bear song just for fun (Hynes knows his tunes, an Animal Collective song graces the beginning of “The Go-Getter”)
While he couldn’t talk about actors at the moment, they do have people in mind and casting details should come out later this year.
“The Go-Getter” is seemingly getting shortchanged by only opening small in four major North American cities, Toronto, Portland, New York and Los Angeles, so if you’re in one of those cities you should go out and support it (it’s well worth it, a review is forthcoming) so it has a chance to open wider.
