RZA

I mean, the story evolved, but, you know, times have changed.

And by the time we got to set in 2024, I think, when we finally got to set to shoot it,

I just felt like the story had become pure.

As an artist, you gotta let yourself become a vessel.

And sometimes you try to force the music out, and it's a bad note.

But if you sit there and wait for it to come through, it comes out as a beautiful song, or for this particular thing, a beautiful movie.

And thanks to Shameik Moore, Paris Jackson, Blair Underwood, and a great cast of others, man, I think I got something that is timely and on time at the same time.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

That is how I do it, and that's a great way to do it.

You know, a story could be told like a song.

You can write a song, you can make it acoustic, you can make it with a bass and drum, or you can make it with a hip-hop beat.

So with a film, the story that I created remained the same, but the style to tell it.

So I went and pulled ideas or cinematography ideas from classic movies in the 70s, movies in the 80s.

There's a shot in my movie that is...

inspired by a movie called Christine.

So that's a horror film about a car.

Now, my movie is not about that.

But the way the headlights were in that movie when I saw it as a kid, I wanted my film to have that same headlight effect.

So when the audience is watching it in this truck that's kind of going through the town, when they see those lights, they go, oh, something about to happen now.