The next accommodates spoilers for Stephen King’s The Operating Man novel.
The Operating Man director, Edgar Wright, said that there’s a main Easter egg within the movie involving certainly one of its stars, Josh Brolin, who portrays the film’s villain, Dan Killian. In accordance with Wright, it was a nod to the actor’s household.
In an interview with ScreenRant’s Ash Crossan for The Operating Man, the director revealed that Brolin wasn’t the one individual in his household to participate within the movie, his father, James Brolin, was in it, too. “Josh Brolin will not be the one Brolin on this film. By full coincidence, his dad is in it as effectively,” he defined. Wright mentioned that having two Brolins in The Operating Man was fully by likelihood. Actually, James was chosen for the movie earlier than Josh was even solid.
James makes an look in The Operating Man by means of a clip of an outdated film that he was in, Skyjacked. He portrayed the hijacker within the motion thriller movie. It wasn’t till after Josh’s casting that Wright linked the dots.
So we wrote that in. We bought the clip cleared — and this was all earlier than Josh Brolin was solid as Killian. After which when Josh Brolin was solid, I abruptly mentioned to him, “Hey, your dad’s within the film too,” as a result of James Brolin performs the hijacker in Skyjacked.
Other than the daddy and son unintentionally showing in The Operating Man collectively, the scene that Wright selected from Skyjacked was very rigorously chosen. The clip depicts James’ character holding up a aircraft with a grenade. The director picked that particular a part of the movie as a result of he needed to make use of it to foreshadow an occasion that can happen afterward within the film.
Whereas the movie has not been launched to the general public but, the scene that Skyjacked is foreshadowing will likely be pretty apparent to viewers who’ve learn the 1982 Stephen King novel of the identical identify. The primary character, Ben Richards (who will likely be portrayed by Glen Powell), holds two folks hostage on a aircraft on the finish of the novel earlier than the aircraft finally crashes and kills him.
There’s a clip of a movie referred to as Skyjacked, which we had written into the script as a result of we had this concept that when he’s in Molly, performed by William H. Macy, he’s in his basement, he’s a black marketeer, and there are some outdated cathode ray TVs taking part in an outdated movie.
Me and Michael Bacall had this concept: What in the event that they’re watching a movie that would function a setup or foreshadowing later? So there’s this film referred to as Skyjacked, and I bear in mind we have been speaking about airport movies, and I mentioned to Michael, “Oh, there’s this movie referred to as Skyjacked the place any individual holds up a aircraft with a grenade.”
The Operating Man will likely be launched in theaters on November 14, 2025.