Now playing in theaters is directorJeff Tomsic’scomedy,Tag.Written byRob McKittrickandMark Steilen, the film is based on a real group of friends that have been playing the same game of Tag for over twenty years and were profiled in the Wall Street Journal article titled, “It Takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being It,” byRussell Adams. While the movie makes some changes to the amount of people playing and other details, the essence of the story is very much in place.TagstarsEd Helms,Jake Johnson,Annabelle Wallis,Rashida Jones,Isla Fisher,Leslie Bibb,Hannibal Buress,Jon HammandJeremy Renner.For more on the film, you canwatch the trailer here.
A few days ago at the Los Angeles press junket forTag, I sat down with Jeff Tomsic for a wide-ranging conversation. During the interview, Tomsic talked about how he landed his first feature film, what it was like pitching the studio, the challenges of filming six action scenes on a comedy schedule, what it’s like using the Phantom ultrahigh-speed camera, why he wanted the soundtrack to be filled with early 90s songs, why 90s hip hop is impossible to use in movies (they’re legal nightmares), what he learned from the test screening process, and so much more.
Check out what Jeff Tomsic had to say in the player above and below is a list of what we talked about.
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