He's good-looking, he's got a great charismatic presence, and he's a very good actor. He hasn't always had the material or opportunity to show just how good. In a lot of ways, he's very underrated. When he came aboard, he went all the way.
"John Dahl" (born 1956) is an American film director/film and television director and television writer/writer, best known for his work in the neo-noir genre.
Despite a popular misconception, John is not related to the late novelist/screenwriter Roald Dahl.
More John Dahl on Wikipedia.It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not too many foreign territories are interested in that kind of story, and it has to do well overseas.
He's too busy promoting his nominees.
I did not go to boot camp, ... but our actors did. I am not an actor, so I was spared.
He is the man to go to. He changed the way the military was portrayed in films and made it more accurate.
That's fine with me. I like the process of making movies.
Dale single-handedly chang-ed the way Hollywood makes movies about the military, ... He gives the actors a real sense of obligation about what they're doing. At night he'd play '40s music and talk about some of the history leading up to the war in Japan so he could bring these guys into this frame of thinking.
The original script envisioned this men-on-a-mission story like 'Guns of Navarone' or 'The Dirty Dozen,' with 12 people instead of 120, ... But the actual events were pretty spectacular, so we told Miramax, 'You've got an amazing piece of material here; we should try to tell it as accurately as possible.'
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