

I honestly have never worked with a director who is so intensely primal and organic in his choices and every choice he makes is about the characters.” His movies tend not to be easy black and white stories because the human animal often does things that cross the line and all of his films have dealt with that in different ways.

He’s just a great talent.”įoster comments, “I think Neil is fascinated by the moral dimensions of characters. “He had a great sense of the characters and brought so much to the development of the story. “We sat down with Neil and talked about the script and our ideas for where the movie should go, and we were very much on the same page,” says Silver. Obviously, he’s an incredible filmmaker and he is known for exploring complex, sometimes dangerous topics in a compelling way, so we both thought it was an amazing idea.” Downey recalls, “Joel and I have been huge fans of Neil’s work for a long time. It had been Foster who first suggested Jordan to direct “The Brave One,” and the producers were immediately on board with the idea.
