channing tatum - the son of no one production notes
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 Writer / director Dito Montiel teams with actor Channing Tatum for the third time on the powerful suspense drama The Son of No One following their successful collaborations on Montiel’s first two critically acclaimed feature films, Fighting and his impressive, award-winning feature film debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, an adaptation of his 2003 memoir about growing up in Astoria,
Queens. Montiel often draws on his own experiences and the environment in which he spent his childhood and teen years. This is certainly true of his latest film, The Son of No One, with many of his characters composites of people from his past and his experiences living in the Queens Housing Projects.
The film demonstrates, once again, that Montiel is an uncanny story teller with what critics and many of the actors who have worked with the filmmaker call “a unique voice in American film.” Beginning with A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Montiel has shown a keen eye and savvy sense for interesting casting, this time around assembling a stellar and somewhat eclectic cast which in addition to Channing Tatum includes Academy Award winner Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes,
Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche, Tracy Morgan and James Ransone. The film also features two extraordinarily talented child actors, Jake Cherry and Brian Gilbert, as the young Jonathan and young Lenny (the adult characters played by Channing Tatum and Tracy Morgan).
At this point in his career, when Montiel starts writing, he’s not necessarily certain whether it will be a screenplay or a novel first, and that was the case with the genesis of this film. “I just start writing – because that’s what I do for fun. I started writing what became The Son of No One based on this kid, Jonathan, who I grew up with in the projects. There used to be White John and Black John, which is what we called this kid and another boy who were always together. I always mix up people I knew, and there was a kid we named Milk because he was so white.”
Montiel explains his process of developing the story: “So I had this idea and just started messing with it and writing some stories, then a long story. It started to feel like a book at one point, but then it began to feel more like a movie.”
“It’s a bit of a crazy process I go through,” Montiel admits, “So I’m still trying to finish the book. I always was the kid that watched the movie for the book report, so it makes sense that I’m doing it backwards. When I wrote my book A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, if I knew then what “INT.” meant, it probably would have been a screenplay first. It ended up close to being a movie then. But it’s all the same to me,” says Montiel, who is also a musician and painter. “Writing, directing, music, painting – art is art.”
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