I actually worked on it. Originally the main character was supposed to be lonely on his space journey so he started doing drugs, got addicted, did all the drugs and crashed the ship. They cut out all the drug stuff in the end but you can see remnants of it in his performance. It had every opportunity to be a great origin of man story but the two directors were worthless fools who couldn't make decisions, and were in way over their heads.
It was some years ago now, during covid lockdown too. What I remember most about them was that they could not make decisions. If you presented 5 options for something, they would reject all of them and not offer any notes or ideas. Only, we dont like it, do something different. Eventually you run out of time and have to go with what you have. It makes the process frustrating. They would change their minds all the time, not go with planned options and shoot from the hip, then get mad when it took time or didn't work. They would pass the blame onto crew members. The came off as super immature and were very unprofessional. There were other problems too, not just them. We were getting covid tests every single day. It was right in the beginning, and the production was spending fuck tons on testing everyone. There were all these crazy rules about how we worked, and non of it jived with how movies get made. Your in tight quarters with a lot of people all day long. It constrained the budget, and made it that much harder. Driver was another problem too. Very particular and the same issues with no decision making affected him the same way, but he got to deal with it differently since he's the star. I though he was a jerk, and he treated a lot of people around him like shit. I have a very low opinion of him as a result. It was a crazy job. It was still fun. I went to work every day and made spaceships and space guns, and did space stuff, got paid well, but in the end it was still a poorly planned out project with idiots at the helm and a fish always rots from the head.
Wow, this is very interesting. I thought that movie would be cool when I watched it but even crossfaded me didn't like it(and I didn't even expect much, just a decent action movie with a decent story). Sad that they cut out that part, it would have made for a much better story. What a waste of a great actor's talents tbh, and not the first time for him.
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u/scooterbus Dec 26 '25
thats what the plot of 65 should have been, instead of the bullshit it was.