He called me after and said, “I have an idea for a script, I want to give it a shot.” I said “Absolutely,” and about six weeks later he came up with the first draft. We found out we had common interests - martial arts, old Italian Westerns.
We met just for breakfast, became a three, maybe four hour meeting. I spoke by phone with Florentine about the development of the project, the personal losses he sustained during its production, and his philosophy of screen fighting.įilmmaker: How did you first learn of the project, back when it was called Stoic?įlorentine: The spec script was written after I met the writer, Matt Venne. His latest film Acts of Vengeance has heightened visibility, and an honest-to-goodness theatrical release, thanks to the casting of Antonio Banderas as a slick defense attorney who takes a vow of silence before taking his revenge on his family’s killers. Isaac Florentine is one of the stalwart direct-to-video directors of the last decade, making fluid fight films on microscopic budgets, usually with the miraculously athletic Scott Adkins in the lead. Acts of Vengeance, Antonio Banderas, Isaac Florentine, Matt Venne, Tim Man
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