Ulloa: It also started with “Chema” Yazpik. You also have a great supporting cast in Tim Roth, Neal McDonough, Ron Perlman, Shannyn Sossamon and Paz Vega. Otherwise, he will lose his son.ĭawson: Jose Maria Yazpik is well-cast as your leading man. So, he has to (embark on a rescue mission) quickly. Niente always tries to avoid fighting but then the monster comes out and takes over.
Which thoughts are you going to feed today? Your tragic thoughts and obsessions or what keeps you healthy and sane? So, to me, it was a lot about that-a personal issue that I constantly deal with. I was raised by a Catholic mother and a Jewish father so religion was very prominent in my young life, and the idea of which wolf do you feed is meaningful to me. I had a lot of discussions with Chema about how in this world, even today I think it’s more relevant as religion keeps fading from the lives of so many people. Ulloa: I’ve always been fascinated by the (Native American) tale of two wolves, and which one you feed. So, that was tweaked quite a lot and was the most fundamental change to the script that happened.ĭawson: There’s a lot of inner conflict going on within Niente/The Jesuit. So, we had to cheat some of the locations and it wasn’t always easy shooting Mexico for Texas.Īnd speaking of Schrader and the importance of kids, Senor Sans (Ron Perlman’s character) originally had an army of kids at his compound in the original script, but budget-wise, we weren’t about to include that. and 60 percent in Mexico as Niente takes his journey south, we shot the film in six weeks, and 98 percent of it was shot in Mexico.
One of the difficulties of making this film was even though 40 percent of the story is set in the U.S. We did little tweaks to make the locations work. Ulloa: The script was pretty much intact. And you’ve got themes that are similar, such as the child in peril and the extreme violent nature of the characters. Alfonso Pineda Ulloaĭawson: With a screenplay by Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver, your film already has a certain pedigree. who sets out on a dangerous mission to save his kidnapped son from a ruthless cartel boss. They’ve been asked to decide for themselves what they like and what they don’t like, and they might be willing to take bigger risks on watching a film.Īlfonso Pineda Ulloa directs 'There Are No Saints,' an action-thriller about a ex-con former hitman. Audiences’ tastes have become more refined.
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I actually think it’s better that the movie is coming out in 2022 than if it had come out in 2018 or 2019. Ulloa: Distribution has changed a lot since 2018, with the emergence of Netflix NFLX and streaming. Even if he may not be successful, he still has to try.ĭawson: So, it took a while to find a distributor? Soon enough, though, he discovers he has to go save his (kidnapped) son. He knows he has to pay the consequence but he’s hoping that’s not the case. Maybe if he had a better relationship with his ex (played by Paz Vega), they might have gotten on a plane immediately and left Texas. He knows that as soon as he steps out the door, (his enemies) are going to come after him. The worst thing that has happened to him is being released from prison. To me having (the film’s antihero) Niente (Yazpik) who in his past life had violence embedded in his soul-he saw it every day-my questions were 1) How can that person walk away from the monster that is inside of him and 2) How can he slay that monster? When you break your own moral code, you’re definitely going to have to pay the consequences and these consequences will have the same strength as you used in your previous life.ĭawson: It’s almost as though Niente knows, subconsciously, that he has to have a reckoning, of his past despicable actions, right? Waking up and reading the newspapers and seeing people getting hanged or being dissolved in chemicals, it’s not like you feel you’re in the room with those people but you start to normalize the violence. You can breathe it as much as you can breathe the pollution. Also, being a Mexican and living in Mexico for as long as I’ve lived and for as long as I can remember, violence has always been around.
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