Last week B-D stringer SpookyDan took a trip to Hollywood where he sat down and chatted with legendary director Stuart Gordon about his latest genre effort, Stuck, which arrives in limited theaters this Friday (May 30). You can read all about the film that is actually based on a true story inside, or just click the title for trailers, stills, posters and more.
Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival. STUCK is director Stuart Gordon’s latest genre-thriller that was actually based on a true story. When chatting with the legendary director, we talked a bit about how cold it was of these individuals that he read about in the papers.
“It was one of those stories I was reading about in the newspapers everyday, it was on the front page for weeks. This story was impossible to comprehend. She was a caregiver in a senior citizen home, and had taken some guy and was letting him bleed to death in her garage, which was what grabbed me. She was an ordinary person,” he explains. “This is not some weirdo monster character, this was a day to day kind of person behaving in a incredibly cold and heartless way… what happened?”
Gordon continues on about the true nature of the films story and how he kept the premise intact – until the finale.
“We didn’t change much; I would say the first half of the movie is pretty accurate. She did after she hit him, put him in her garage, then go and have sex with her boyfriend. That was one of the details that jumped out at me,” Godon tells SpookyDan in an interview last week. “We kind of departed from the truth in that he got out of the car. At one point I remember John Strysic (the screenwriter) suggested what if he got out? In a way it makes him more active than just a passive victim, and the last act sort of wrote itself.”
But turning a small story into a feature-length film isn’t as easy as it may sound. There was a lot of new ideas they had to run with. “We (Strysic and I) were talking about what were some of the obstacle she can encounter, we were discussing if there was enough story for a feature length movie. You describe it, and it just sounds like a 20-minute film. So we just added the family of immigrants who are afraid of being deported, that didn’t happen but it seemed like something that could happen. In reading the description of the real injury one of his legs was almost completely amputated. Strysic actually went to the place where it really happened, its out in the middle of nowhere; it’s a highway not a city, so the real question was what the hell was he doing out there?”
STUCK hits select theaters on May 30 from THINKFILM.
Should be a pretty good movie. I know the actual story was really really messed up.
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Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival. STUCK is director Stuart Gordon’s latest genre-thriller that was actually based on a true story. When chatting with the legendary director, we talked a bit about how cold it was of these individuals that he read about in the papers. 
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