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Thunder Road Films is a film and television financing and production company founded by Basil Iwanyk.It is based in Santa Monica, California. [1]Thunder Road's films have grossed over $3.8 billion worldwide and garnered nominations from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Producers Guild Awards, Writers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards, and AFI Awards. [2]
Mar 25, 2023 · Iwanyk comes across as a a fast-talking, ultra-confident Hollywood pitchman for good reason: He worked his way through the ranks of Warner Bros. in the 1990s before starting his own production ...
Basil William Iwanyk (born January 4, 1970) is an American film producer. He is the founder of Thunder Road Films and most known for Sicario, The Town, Greenland and the John Wick franchise. His films have earned more than $2 billion internationally as of 2018.
- You’Ve Had An Amazing career. How Do You Reflect on It, overall?
- Did You? Wow, Remarkable.
- Was There A Big Break Moment For You in Your Career?
- What Did You Say in The interview?
- Do People Presume If You Can Do It Once Then You Can Do It Again and Again?
- Are You Motivated by Awards and Critical Acclaim? Does That Matter to You?
- That’S refreshing. and It’S Not The Norm by A Long shot.
- Is That The More East Coast Underdog Spirit in You, Do You think?
- Thanks Basil!
BASIL IWANYK: “Two years ago, we moved back to the East Coast. I live on the Jersey Shore, less than 100 yards from the beach. It’s in the same neighbourhood that I grew up in. And last night, I was driving my son to freshman orientation. He’s in eighth grade but next year is gonna be a freshman in high school – the same high school I went to. And ...
BASIL IWANYK: “I had gigantic failures that I was able to punch through. I gained enough goodwill and respect and friendship from a lot of people in town that people still supported me through failure. So I’m very proud of what I’ve been able to do. But I’m also the first person to say that I don’t take a step back and look at my career in totality...
BASIL IWANYK: “Generally, tonnes and tonnes. When Jeremy Zimmerat UTA hired me to be in the mailroom when I was 22 – that was a huge break because I was just unemployed in Manhattan Beach being a total schmuck. I became an executive at Warner Bros when I was 24. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura plucked me out of the assistant days of UTA to be an executive. ...
BASIL IWANYK: “You know the whole cliche of the Bob Dylan song: “When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose”. I was rejected to be an assistant anywhere on the Warner Bros lot. Channing Dungey– who was the president of ABC and now is the president of Warner Television – was a junior executive. And I met her as sympathy because I almost got...
BASIL IWANYK: “Well isn’t that the challenge of a producer? You want the credit you’ve had parenthetically after your name in the trades to be the most recent movie as possible that you’re proud of. I don’t want it to be The Town, for example.The Townwas 12 years ago. My youngest son wasn’t even born at the time. You got to make sure it’s something...
BASIL IWANYK: “It did back in the day. I made three movies for Harvey Weinstein; The Current War, Wind River and Hotel Mumbai. And Harvey’s big pitch to me was: “You came this close on Sicario and this close on The Town. If you’d had me behind you, you would’ve won Oscars”. I was like, “I’m in. You got me at hello”. And this is not any judgement on...
BASIL IWANYK: “Oh, I would say half the movies we’ve made in the last three years, I haven’t been on set on. Now, granted, it was COVID. So it’s a little bit harder to travel. But that doesn’t mean I’m not talking to people every day. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a thing that happens that I’m not aware of. You have to have faith and trust in peopl...
BASIL IWANYK: “I’m a guy from New Jersey. We look across the river and see New York. I will always be the underdog. I love being the fucking scrapper. And I like fighting. I don’t mean arguing, I mean the fight to get something made. I’m not afraid of any challenge. And in fact, sometimes these movies I read and I think, “This is impossible to make...
Basil Iwanyk was speaking as a judge of the second TITAN Screenwriting Contest, by Industrial Scripts. Read more about the contest and enter at the link below. 1. Enter the 2022 TITAN Screenwriting Contest. 2. View all previous Insider Interviews, here. 3. What did you think of this article? Share It, Like It, give it a rating, and let us know your...
Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 American crime film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin. The film stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes in his first widely released film since 2004. Brooklyn's Finest had its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2009, and released in the ...
Nov 14, 2023 · Producer Basil Iwanyk has shepherded several franchises to the screen, including Sicario, Clash of the Titans, and The Expendables.However, his biggest and most enduring global brand has to be the John Wick films, which have spawned four features plus the recent Mel Gibson-led Peacock series The Continental and the forthcoming spin-off film Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas.
Basil Iwanyk was born on 4 January 1970 in New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Sicario (2015), The Town (2010) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). He has been married to Natalie Reisman since 26 July 2008.
