A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with The Lookout stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and writer/director Scott Frank to discuss the new film. I apologize for the unusually low quality recording, we had to make due as my professional digital recorder broke during the interview.

Miramax’s deceptive marketing
The story’s evolution over the last 20 years
Scott Frank’s decision to become a director
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s decision to transition into dark indie films
Matthew Goode’s decision to break out from Romantic Comedies
Scott Frank on Quirky Character Traits For No Reason vs. Character Traits that drive the story
Researching the characters
Making a movie about a character with a head injury, and NOT a [...]

The Lookout director Scott Frank (screenwriter of Minority Report, Get Shorty) is already hard at work on his next projects: a potential western and a mid-life crisis drama titled “Fourty Four“.
The Western:
“I’m going to try like hell to make this western that I’ve written but I’m getting the sense that’s going to be an uphill battle,” Frank told /Film. “So it may have to be like this movie where it takes a couple years to get made.”
Fourty Four:
“I’m writing another story called Fourty Four which I keep glibly describing as my midlife crisis movie set in the world of automotive design,” revealed Frank. “I don’t know, may-be that will be [...]

If you’ve seen the movie trailer and poster (pictured left) for The Lookout, than you’re probably expecting a dark Memento like heist movie, and you would be wrong. It’s probably the worest example of false movie advertising since Bridge To Terabithia (which promised but failed to be a Narnia fantasy world family film). And it’s a shame, because The Lookout is a great film. So when I got the chance to speak to first time director Scott Frank (screenwriter of Minority Report, Get Shorty), I asked him about it point blank. Here is his response:
“We HATE the trailer. The trailer is NOT the movie, and neither is that (pointing to [...]