Filmmaker Adam Rifkin has an impressive list of movie credits.
“And my Mom.”
That number is now increasing, dramatically, with each passing hour.
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In the clip, a red sports car pulls up to our lead characters.
“Is anybody hurt?”
asks Cage’s character, in a high, breathy voice.
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“No, everybody’s fine,” replies Claudia Christian.
“Can I give somebody a lift?”
says Cage, wildly gesticulating, like a man fending off an enraged swan.
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“No, man, that’s alright,” responds Berg.
“We’ve got everything under control.”
It is a truly strange moment.
Club,Nerdist, and British newspaperThe Independent.
All of which has made for a very interesting week in the Rifkin household.
“I mean, talk about something coming out of left field.
But it just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You directedNever on Tuesdaywhen you were twenty.
How did you get the gig?
It was very dark and very weird.
Elliot Kastner produced Brando movies, and Jack Nicholson movies, and Paul Newman movies.
Brad was working for Elliott, and Cassian Elwes who was Elliott’s stepson was also working for Elliott.
Brad introduced me to Kassian, and then they both introduced me to Elliott.
Elliott hadnointerest in a dark, weird movie about a [stand-up comedian] with three arms.
What he meant by that is, the teen audience.
I said, “As a matter of fact, I do.”
He said, “Alright, bring it in tomorrow.”
He said, “Sure.”
But I ran home and I wrote one over the next several days.
So, what isNever on Tuesdayactually about?
It’s likeWaiting for Godotwith teenagers.
But she’s a lesbian, has no interest in them.
Now, at the time, I thought that was a very progressive idea.
[Laughs] It was my intention to be very forward-thinking.
How did Nicolas Cage get involved?
Elmo’s Fireand a bunch of other movies.
And Nicolas Cage fromRaising Arizonaand other movies that were very very popular.
They’d each come in for a day and do a kooky character and then leave.
The way it worked with Nicolas Cage is, he was given free rein to dowhateverhe wanted.
That was the caveat.
He said he’d do it if he could do whatever he wanted.
That is not the version that ended up in the final film, sadly.
But, now, I wish we could find it, because it’s really really bizarre.
The movie was released straight-to-video and over time had pretty much disappeared from the collective consciousness.
[Laughs] But I’m thrilled that the Nic Cage clip is available.
But the film as a whole?
It’s my first film.
I was twenty-years-old, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
But, at the moment, I’m very thrilled that a clip is getting some internet love.
I really do want to be positive about the film.
The next thing I did, Cassian Elwes was the producer of.
I wrote, and was going to direct, the nextPlanet of the Apesfor 20th Century Fox.
And they hired us.
What are you doing next?
I’d love to tell you, man.
I’d love to tell you what I’m working on, [but I can’t].
