![]() ![]() Campbell edited the film remotely in Los Angeles, working on Evercast. Principal shooting lasted 60 days, followed by five months of post-production. I had to do three days in London, which we managed to do, but COVID was just closing in, at that point.” Arthur Sarkissian “I finished with a night shoot and then literally raced for the hotel, grabbed our bags, hopped on a plane to London. “We got out one day before they closed down Romania,” Campbell recalled. Of course, we were lucky because COVID was just percolating at that point.” They were very competent, exactly what I was hoping. We just had to bring the heads of departments together and build our crew around them. “Originally it was going to be all Romania,” Sarkissian said. The bulk of The Protégé was shot in Romania just before COVID-19 shut down the movie industry. You never quite know what kind of delivery you’re going to get, which makes it very exciting. He’s slightly quirky, slightly left field. ![]() “First of all, we got Michael Keaton because he is a terrific actor,” Campbell said. A lot of the punch-ups and so forth, he did them himself.”īut it wasn’t Keaton’s action skills that got him cast in The Protégé. He worked very hard to make it convincing. Some actors merely say, ‘Well you can use my double here.’ Michael really got into it. And if actors commit to doing action, that’s a huge advantage. “Michael keeps himself fit,” Campbell said via a Zoom call. While Maggie Q has had extensive martial-arts training, Keaton has not had much experience in the action genre. The real surprise in The Protégé may be Michael Keaton, who plays a ruthless killer with an unpredictable sense of humor. I can’t wait to do another movie with her.” She’s so smart and tuned-in, she should be far, far more recognized than she is. “I’m not just saying this because I want to hype the movie, but Maggie Q is an absolutely incredible person to work with,” Sarkissian said in a phone call. That film caught the attention of Jackie Chan, who helped mentor her subsequent career. Born in Hawaii, she went from a modeling career to acting in Hong Kong films like Gen Y Cops. The Protégé marks a turning point for Maggie Q, previously cast in striking supporting roles in films like Mission: Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard. His next project, Memory, starring Liam Neeson and directed by Campbell, is in post-production. Producer Arthur Sarkissian collaborated with Campbell on The Foreigner, and produced the three Rush Hour films with Jackie Chan. He helmed not one but two James Bond debuts: Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye (1995) and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006), and worked with action icons like Mel Gibson ( Edge of Darkness, 2010) and Jackie Chan ( The Foreigner, 2014). Over his forty-year career, Martin Campbell directed award-winning TV series like Reilly: Ace of Spades before building a reputation for box-office blockbusters. But her mission is complicated by Rembrandt ( Michael Keaton ), a rival killer, in the Lionsgate release, The Protégé, opening in theaters on August 20. When her mentor is attacked, elite British assassin Anna ( Maggie Q ) returns to her childhood home in Da Nang to avenge him.
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