Thomas Jane’s biography speaks for itself. Jane’s ability to act across multiple genres without feeling overwhelmed is a rarity in Hollywood. The 53-year-old’s impressive filmography includes roles in boogie nightwith, deep blue sea, Red line, 61*, Punisherand Fog. Also, Jane is the head of a production company that focuses on movies and comics. It is a real race. Now Jane is looking for genre stories that are offbeat and fun. she found one in assassinsHorror comedy movie with vampires, influencers and a lot of violence.
IN assassins, Jones, plays Elliot Jones, a vampire hunter and conspiracy theorist hell-bent on avenging the death of his daughter. After years of searching, Jones finally discovers the location of the vampires that killed her. To infiltrate the cloak, he enlisted the help of “The Stream Team”, a group of social media influencers who care more about likes than their own well-being. Written and directed by K. Asher Levin, assassins is a witty, adrenaline-pumping journey with much to say about culture and media influence.
In an interview with Digital Trends, Jane talks about her role in assassinsexplains his collaboration with Levin and shares unforgettable stories from the sets Boogie Nights and 61*.
(L – R) Kara Hayward as Flynn Chambers and Thomas Jane as Elliot Jones in the comedy/action/horror, SLAYERS, released by The Avenue. Photo courtesy of La Avenida.
Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Digital Trends: You’ve had a pretty busy year. You’ve been in four movies and one TV show, with two of those movies in the last four weeks. What motivates you to work at this fast pace?
Thomas Jane: Finding good material. Sometimes there’s a dry spell where the material just doesn’t come, and then sometimes it comes fast and furious. Since I started Renegade, my production company, has been a beacon for people who have a script that’s a little off-kilter, that’s smart, that’s a genre movie, and that’s well written. I was lucky to have a few of these on my desk. When it goes well, it goes well. It usually comes in waves like this. [Motions hand up and down] so this is just another one of those waves.
assassins It’s a vampire movie at heart, but it includes a lot of comedy, horror, and camp. What especially impressed you when you read the script for the first time?
Well, just that. We had the opportunity to do a midnight movie. A midnight cult movie that was a bit self-aware, but not too much because that gets silly. It is a very fine line that you are treading. It’s like riding a wave, and there’s only one good way to ride it. This script caught that.
Asher is a smart guy. I like his production. I love the way he put the film together with all the editing. We added the voice later. It wasn’t part of the original script, but Asher found that Elliott Jones would be a great frame to tell all of this. We had fun. We got in, we’re making progress, and we’re throwing shit at the wall. Asher took everything that got stuck and dumped it in there, and I’m very proud of the results.
(Left to right) Ashley Reyes as Natalie, Malin Akerman as Beverly Rector and Jack Donnelly as Jack in the comedy/action/horror SLAYERS, released by The Avenue. Photo courtesy of La Avenida.
Did you model Elliot after anyone in particular?
Good question. I’m sure it has an impact. I would say Kurt Russell is definitely an influence. Could be Escape from New York, but also other things. It’s kind of a fusion of what came out. I started with the beard. I thought, “This guy must have a big chin and a bit of a drooping chin.” It had been years since I had combed it because it wasn’t that.
He started out as a clean guy, journalist and investigative reporter. After his daughter is kidnapped by vampires, he begins filming a crime series, and the crime series leads him down a path where he discovers a secret world of vampire conspiracy running the scenes, which is TRUE. [Laughs] So he connected a lot of dots on this one.
Are you as hard on influencer culture, media and capitalism as your character?
I would have to say yes. Influencers do not have your best interests at heart. They have your best interests at heart. Successful guys are those who know how to hide it well. But you have to understand that you have been deceived. It’s sexy, and it looks great, and you want to be like that, but you’re being cheated on. This is your pocket money.
I’m not a fan of social media and that kind of culture. The disease potential is really strong. [Laughs] I guess you have to balance that sort of thing with reading a good book, [and] good conversation at dinner. Things like that. Life happens there. The rest is that we enter this unusual world of glass. The whole world is behind a glass wall.
Simple things are taken for granted.
Well I think I am. They also become a commodity that you cannot refuse. Someone will make an announcement of what you just said, simple things. It’s weird and it changes us in ways I’m not comfortable with.
This marks his second consecutive collaboration with Asher. What does Asher bring as a collaborator that makes you want to work with him?
He has a good sense of humor. He is not afraid to step out of the box. We’re both interested in how to fold this in a way that it doesn’t lie so flat. I like to find curves in something, so we have that in common. He has a very good sense of genre. The first movie we made was called Dig. we actually shot assassins First. That’s where we met. But he came out first. Dig, which I did with my daughter, Harlow. It was a really special experience. How often does she go to work with her son? We have it as a little time capsule for both of us. We had fun.
In an interview with Asher for the movie, he mentioned that you were working with his brother-in-law on the comic.
Yes it’s true. I have a comic book company called RAW Studios, which is now merging with my production company, Renegade. It was called RAW Studios for a long time and we made comics. I liked. I got to work with some of my heroes and get some sci-fi books published. I think the art is fantastic in the books we’ve written. i wrote bad planetbut I’m not very proud of it. It’s a learning curve for sure. But the art is great. The graphic novel is really worth watching for the art alone. We made a 3D piece and it comes with glasses on the back. I was able to exorcise some of those childhood fantasies and learned a lot about storytelling. We have to do comics.
What comics did you grow up with, that shaped your love for them?
Anything that isn’t a superhero book. I loved police comics. I love horror comics. I like westerns a bit, but mostly crime, horror and science fiction. I absorbed a lot. Anything I could get my hands on. A look back at the reissues of EC Comics, the watermark of horror and sci-fi in the ’50s. In fact, EC Comics is the reason horror comics were banned in New York State. To this day, you can’t make a horror comic in New York State because of EC comics.
Kara Hayward as Flynn Chambers and Thomas Jane as Elliot Jones in the comedy/action/horror SLAYERS, released by The Avenue. Photo courtesy of La Avenida.
I had no idea.
It was a social commentary that they included in the books. I mean, these are children’s books. They really didn’t. Today you read them and think: “This is something fancy.” With their social commentary, they insulted communism, racism, sexism, and all sorts of other things in their science fiction and horror. They caught the attention of the government. [Laughs]
Your career spans several decades and you have worked with so many different authors. I saw Boogie Nights On October 10 it celebrated its 25th anniversary. What do you remember of that experience? What was your biggest lesson?
We were young. Those were some of our early jobs. It was early in our career. My bottom line was dating Burt Reynolds. We’ve all been in this house doing that really long Steadicam shot through the house where William H. Macy ends up blowing his brains out. In between these setups, which were really long and complicated, Burt Reynolds would sit in a big chair. I just remember all the young actors literally sitting on the floor and him telling stories about what it was like to be an actor in the ’50s, running around New York, going to auditions, [and] confused with Marlon Brando.
They used to look a lot alike. You look at a picture of a young Burt Reynolds and you can say, “Yeah, I got to see that.” Acting is an oral tradition. It is transmitted from ear to mouth, from mouth to ear. It is passed from one actor to another. It’s really the only way you can really learn what you’re doing. Those experiences were really meaningful to me. They were great.
Another movie that has taken on a whole new meaning is 61* because Aaron Judge broke Marisa’s record.
Isn’t that convenient?
Thomas Jane as Elliot Jones, Kara Hayward as Flynn Chambers, Ash T as David Dean and Jack Donnelly as Jack Chambers in the comedy/action/horror SLAYERS, released by The Avenue. Photo courtesy of La Avenida.
That. I read that it was one of your favorite experiences on the movie set. Why was that movie so special to you?
I had Reggie Smith teach me everything I needed to know about baseball and how to play Mickey Mantle: his swing, how he ran, the way he pitched, the way he pitched. It wasn’t just learning baseball. He taught himself “mantle baseball.” That experience was a bit like father and son for me. Reggie told me at one point, “You know, if your dad had started playing baseball with you when you were four or five years old, you could have been a player. You have this thing that I can’t teach you. That really meant a lot to me.
It is much bigger than baseball. There is a universe folded into that diamond and everything that happens around it. It’s a very special game and I can see why people love it so much. It was just a great experience, playing baseball and making a movie. I love making movies and I’m always alone. I love movies. I wanted to be a part of it since I was eight years old and my dad took me to see it. Strange. I wanted to do this all my life. For me, every time I’m on set is something special. Playing baseball and making a movie was a unique experience. I don’t think I’ll ever have something like that.
assassins It’s already in theaters, digital and on demand.
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