Combat or Flight star Josh Hartnett spoke with ComingSoon about his new action movie. The Pearl Harbor actor mentioned going blond for the half, doing elaborate struggle scenes, and extra. Vertical will launch the movie in theaters on Might 9, 2025.
“Exiled American agent Lucas Reyes is given one final probability to redeem himself – the project is to trace down and establish a mysterious, worldwide high-value asset recognized solely as The Ghost on a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco. Complicating issues, the airplane is full of assassins from world wide who’re assigned to kill them each. The pair should work collectively in a struggle for his or her lives. At 37,000 toes, the stakes have by no means been increased,” says the synopsis for Combat or Flight starring Josh Hartnett.
Tyler Treese: Josh, you’re utilizing all the pieces in these struggle scenes, and actually making the most of the atmosphere. You’re utilizing snack trays. There’s a brutal scene with a seatbelt that I’d by no means seen earlier than. It’s so enjoyable. What did you want most in regards to the creativity of those motion scenes? They’re actually elevated.
Josh Hartnett: So the entire stunt workforce was working with us in tandem whereas we have been rewriting it to sort of give it the flavour that we ended up having for the film. We wished to make it possible for they understood earlier than we began was that, sure, we wish these struggle sequences to be brutal, however we wish them to have some extent. A starting, center, and finish that truly modifications the characters, or particularly my character, considerably, and to acknowledge that it’s humorous. There’s levity in there, it doesn’t matter what. We had so as to add one thing that was going to be uncommon and humorous and going to present the struggle sequences not solely the form of brutal motion component, but in addition some comedian worth. Then, in fact, they created issues that have been past our expectations.
It took me a few weeks to essentially be taught them and get in there with them. That half was lots of enjoyable. I imply, it was brutal. We solely shot this in about 25 days, so mainly a few of these longer motion sequences, we solely had like a day or a day and a half to shoot, and all the pieces needed to go proper, and we obtained very fortunate, they usually all went effectively.
I really like your look within the movie, and a few followers are obsessive about the bleach-blond look. You appear like you’re having a blast all through all the movie. So, is it true that blondes have extra enjoyable?
Josh Hartnett: On this case? Yeah, for positive. I imply, I attempt to have as a lot enjoyable making movies as I can, it doesn’t matter what. I had lots of enjoyable making Lure final 12 months. However I’ll say that one thing about altering my look totally, going blond allowed me a form of latitude of freedom or one thing like that. I simply felt very a lot in contrast to myself. Even off-screen, my spouse beloved it. She thought it was actually cool.
After we first dyed it, it seemed actually cool, however we couldn’t have that. We wished the character to look somewhat bedraggled, so we needed to let it develop out, however I knew that that was gonna be the case. So when it grew out a couple of weeks, it seemed sort of ragged, however nonetheless superior. And it was enjoyable to return and see individuals who hadn’t seen me shortly, like dropping the youngsters off in school and stuff. The look on their faces was… They didn’t need to say something. They thought perhaps it was only a selection for me, however you possibly can inform that that they had theories.
Julian Kostov is within the film, and he stated that you simply have been his favourite actor rising up. How surreal is it that you simply’ve been within the business and at such a excessive sufficient stage that you simply’re working with costars who idolized you?
That’s loopy. He by no means informed me that. That’s a very candy factor for him to say. That’s loopy. I don’t really feel sufficiently old to have folks having grown up on me now being grownup co-stars. However I’m, I assume. I’ve been doing it for over 27 years. That’s actually flattering. That’s very nice. Thank Julian for me while you discuss to him once more.
Due to Josh Hartnett for taking the time to speak about Combat or Flight.
