Red Notice's story traveled the world. But the cast and crew just hung out in Atlanta. According to Netflix, almost one-hundred million people have watched Red Notice since its debut. Those numbers are staggering! So how did this globe-trotting hit starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds shoot during the pandemic? Well, they didn't so much trot around the globe as they did trot to Atlanta and build a lot of sets. The movie began as a pitch from writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber and the Rock. Netflix won the bidding war, and then production got underway. But COVID struck the world, and they moved back to the states, with maybe half the movie shot, maybe even less. President of production at Seven Bucks (the Rock's company) Hiram Garcia told The Wrap, “We were going to be in Rome. We were going to be in Sardinia, we planned to go to all these exotic places as we started to open up the world in this story... We were about two weeks away from going to Italy when all the stuff hit in Italy.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 22 November, 2021