Directed by Gina Prince Baitvood ("Love and Basketball", "The Secret Life of Bees") before the premiere of the "immortal guard" gave a telephone interview with Refinery29, specializing in news for women.
I like the genre of superhero film and like it develops in recent years. I did not know that I would get the opportunity to work in this genre, given the habits of Hollywood. But for this project, I was looking for an exclusively woman director, which is very rare. And having received a script, I wanted to make characters as real so that the audience seemed to be that they could be with the heroes behind the neighboring tables in Starbucks, but at the same time these people defend the world.
The director had his own look at how to put an action-scene correctly:
My approach was the same as to the shooting of bed scenes. You must tell the story. If you show just two people simulating sex - it will be incredibly boring. The same with the battle. If there is no story, then there will be just two people who beat each other. Before each action-scene, I thought this story would move the plot, how to influence the development of characters. Deciding these questions, I allowed my team of Caskaders to implement my ideas, develop a fight and tell the story. And how is otherwise plausible to tell how the old guard with axes and swords wins mercenaries with machine guns?
The director also said that for filming the film read the book Dave Grossman "On the murder", which claims that the killing causes a serious psychological injury to the killer, so soldiers during hostilities subconsciously seek to avoid the destruction of the enemy.