(L to R) Josh Duhamel and ‘London Calling’ director Allan Ungar.
Opening in theaters on September nineteenth is the brand new motion comedy ‘London Calling’, which was directed by Allan Ungar (‘Bandit’) and stars Josh Duhamel (‘Shotgun Marriage ceremony’), Rick Hoffman (‘Fits’), Aidan Gillen (‘Recreation of Thrones’), and Jeremy Ray Taylor (‘It’).
Launch Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
Moviefone just lately had the pleasure of talking with Josh Duhamel and director Allan Ungar about their work on ‘London Calling’, creating the screenplay, Duhamel’s character, Tommy and Julian’s friendship, working with Jeremy Ray Taylor, and Ungar’s directing fashion.
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(L to R) Director/co-writer Allan Ungar and Aidan Gillen behind the scenes of the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
Moviefone: To start with, Allan, are you able to discuss creating the screenplay and the tone you had been going for?
Allan Ungar: Yeah, it is humorous, I acquired the script when Josh and I had been on our final day of ‘Bandit’. I used to be battling jet lag. I used to be exhausted and it took me three weeks to learn it, which is mostly a fairly dangerous signal, however I fell in love with it. I feel the component of a father-son story disguised as an action-comedy actually appealed to me. So, we labored on the script for a few 12 months as a result of we had been ending publish on ‘Bandit’, so it wasn’t one thing I may do on daily basis. It harked again to the movies that I grew up on, like ‘Midnight Run’, the buddy cop style. My cinematographer and I talked about tone after we had been speaking concerning the look of the movie. So, pondering again to lots of the seminal, Tony Scott, Michael Bay films of the 90s was a reasonably large affect. Then form of borrowing a bit bit from the Man Ritchie style as a result of I really feel like he is his personal style in a method.
Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” within the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
MF: Josh, are you able to discuss your first response to the screenplay and what excited you about enjoying this character?
Josh Duhamel: From the start, he was speaking about ‘London Calling’. I figured he was going to go make it with any individual else and he involves me and eventually I acquired to learn the script he’d been speaking about for a few years, and I simply fell in love with it. I like the concept of this man who was a bit previous his prime. In his thoughts, he is nonetheless totally in his prime, however I feel like all athlete, they all the time assume they’ll nonetheless cling with the younger ones, however they only lose a step. This man is at that stage in life, and I might cherished that concept that he should face that actuality then will get pressured to LA to flee what occurs in London. Within the course of reluctantly he should take this child on successful with him as a result of his dad desires to toughen him up. Rick Hoffman performs the worst father of all time, by the best way. In that interplay with this child that he does not wish to be with, he finds that he is actually been missing as a father and sees his son on this child. All through all of the follies, all through the film, he actually begins to take a liking to this child.
(L to R) Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” and Jeremy Ray Taylor as “Julian” within the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
MF: Josh, are you able to discuss Tommy and Julian’s friendship and dealing with Jeremy Ray Taylor?
JD: I actually love Jeremy Ray Taylor. He is such a proficient child, considerate, has an important sense of comedy and understands what every scene is meant to carry and the way deep he must go. It is enjoyable to work with him. So, I feel that was a giant motivator for me is figuring out that this child is de facto going to go there, and you could cling with him. I feel it was that dynamic that basically made it enjoyable. Like Allan stated, it felt like a buddy cop film, however it was actually an motion comedy between these two guys who had been unlikely.
(L to R) Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” and Rick Hoffman as “Benson” within the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
MF: Allan, are you able to discuss working with the forged on set? Did you persist with the script or was there room to improvise?
AU: Nicely, it is humorous you say this as a result of when Josh and I first labored collectively on ‘Bandit’, he calls me very explicit, or I am “Mr. Explicit”. So, I sort of map all the things out. In a method, it is inflexible. Look, there’s positives and negatives to that. Day considered one of ‘Bandit’, I realized of Josh’s fashion, and it made me a greater director. So, coming into this, I knew that there’d be alternatives to play since you discover magic within the second. If you carry an actor on like Josh, Rick, or Jeremy, you could allow them to interpret a bit bit and to play and provides them that freedom and adaptability. So, coming into this, we had needed to search out one thing to do collectively after ‘Bandit’. After I flipped it to him and I knew he was in, I used to be like, “Okay, we have to discover a actually eclectic rogues gallery of characters, as a result of all these characters are so distinctive in their very own method.” I all the time wish to say that each character on this film thinks they’re the hero of the story and so they’re all sort of good guys in their very own method, besides Julian is the one pure character. So, going by the method, we simply needed everyone to have their very own sense of id and taste that they might carry one thing totally different to the desk.
(L to R) Jeremy Ray Taylor as “Julian” and Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” within the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
MF: Lastly, simply to comply with up, Josh, what’s “explicit” about the best way Allan directs?
JD: This man believes in no stone unturned, consider me, and I like that about him. He is probably the most ready, tenacious man that I’ve ever labored with. But additionally, you possibly can inform he is a complete sweetheart. At first, I suppose once I first met him on the telephone speaking about ‘Bandit’, he seems like a grown man, however he is younger. I feel he was in his late 20s after we first began engaged on ‘Bandit’. So, a complete movie nerd, a man who does not depart, like I stated, any stone unturned. I like that, as a result of I do know that he is thought all the things by, which provides us as actors room to play, as a result of I do know that he is made that house for us and he is only a enjoyable man to work with and tremendous proficient. I feel individuals are going to see that within the film.
Josh Duhamel as “Tommy Ward” within the motion comedy ‘London Calling’, a Quiver Distribution launch. Picture courtesy of Quiver Distribution.
What’s the plot of ‘London Calling’?
After fleeing the UK from a job gone fallacious, a down on his luck hitman (Josh Duhamel) is pressured to babysit the son (Jeremy Ray Taylor) of his new crime boss (Rick Hoffman) and present him how you can turn out to be a person.
Who’s within the forged of ‘London Calling’?
- Josh Duhamel as Tommy Ward
- Aidan Gillen as Freddy Darby
- Jeremy Ray Taylor as Julian
- Rick Hoffman as Benson
‘London Calling’ opens in theaters on September nineteenth.