Joseph Gorden-Levitt and Dominique Fishback star with Jamie Foxx in the upcoming film, out Aug. 14.
If you could have a superpower for five minutes by popping a pill, would you take it?
What if a percentage of people who opted for the ride ended up dying instead of getting juiced?
That is one of the questions at the heart of the fast-pacednew Netflix filmProject Power.
and a determined cop, with charmingly misplaced Clint Eastwood aspirations, named Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).
We read the first 10 pages and were like, We have to make this, recalls Joost.
It was the Robin character we felt was so compelling and unique.
How would it be distributed?
What would the effect be on people?
That is the tightrope we had to walk the whole time, says Schulman.
We knew that we werent trying to make a really darkly serious film, because thats just not us.
The way we give a shot to get our messages across is with fun and humor.
You want actors that had that humanity, that can be serious and light.
Adds Joost, Jamie, Joe, and Dom have that ability to switch between those moods.
We didn’t want to make a movie that was relentlessly dark or relentlessly bleak.
We were looking for it.
And I think this one has just enough.
Who has the power?
If only there were a pill for that.
For more on Jamie Foxx andProject Power,order the August issue ofEntertainment Weeklynow.
