“Rip & Run” by Daniel Boocock
Close friends Jack & Tank resort to desperate measures in order to pay for medical treatment for Jack's dying son.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
“I always asked myself the question, what would I do if I found myself in a situation like Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men? Regardless of whatever ‘situation’ I found myself in, if there was a big pile of money in front of me, with nobody around to seemingly stop me from taking it and I was genuinely desperate for it, what would I do? With that in mind I implemented such logic into Rip & Run, it’s the spark which sets everything off for the main characters Jack & Tank. It's also a situation I feel most people can relate too in real life, particularly if their circumstances were grave.
Rip & Run is an initial teaser for what would be a bigger story. A crime epic with its own revitalized modern-day sensibility full of energy, chaos and high stakes. I see it as a stylistic TV series in the long run with its own cityscape sprawl riddled with hints of grungy industrial decay that’s almost noirish. The idea is commercially leaning in its appeal. With a spectacle and substance neo-western aesthetic containing two rogue anti-hero characters as well as some Machiavellian ones causing all sorts of drama and bedlam which fuses together.
Creatively speaking I wanted to make something that got going right away, to rope viewers in and get their adrenaline up. Both visually and sonically. I didn’t want to deviate from that high-energy feeling either. If anything, my aim was to up the anticipation throughout Rip & Run until the very end. Even when the end comes, there is still another moment that’s an adrenaline hit for the viewer. Few people see it coming and it adds a whole other layer of context to everything which has come before and where things can head in the future. Upscaled and expanded with the right kind of setup, I really do feel that Rip & Run can go on to pack its own punch.”
-Daniel Boocock
CREDITS
Written, produced & directed by Daniel Boocock
Cast
Jak Corrie
Dan Gittens
Kevin Glynn
Dan Boie Kratfeldt
Randy Guine
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