Rock ‘n Roll Ghost S11 E10 - filmmaker Walter Hill (Dead For a Dollar) [48 Hrs., The Warriors]

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with the great filmmaker Walter Hill (48 Hrs., The Warriors, Johnny Handsome, Extreme Prejudice, Geronimo: An American Legend, Streets of Fire) about his newest film, Dead For a Dollar.

Starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke and Benjamin Bratt, Dead For a Dollar is Hill’s new age twist on the classic western. Hill explains here how he wanted to take modern-day themes and put them in a context appropriate for the film’s 1897 time frame.

Hill also discusses how important and effective his cast was at bringing out what was on the pages of the script he wrote. He touches on how Brosnhan was a “director’s dream” and that Burke's performance as Sergeant Poe is especially good as the character can only show certain aspects of himself to various characters.

Though our time was short (I could have peppered Hill with questions about his career for at least another hour), I was able to ask him about working with Mickey Rourke on Johnny Handsome, as well as praise him for what has become my favorite film of his, Extreme Prejudice (starring Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe). To say that this time spent with such a spectacular filmmaker was an honor almost feels too small for how it actually felt.

Dead For a Dollar is available via video on demand now (links below).

Links:

Dead For a Dollar on Apple - https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/dead-for-a-dollar/id1645661450

Dead For a Dollar on Vudu - https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Dead-for-a-Dollar/2122630?cmp=rt_where_to_watch

Photo of Walter Hill by Francois Bouchon - Figarophoto