Film Courage: When did you realize you could make a living doing action films in Mexico?
R. Ellis Frazier, Director, Producer, CEO at BADHOUSE Studios: The first film was relatively larger. I knew that as long as we could come in with the lower budget and provide the look that people wanted there would be constant work there. I recognized that relatively early. Where I was not convinced was when I was trying to be a writer/producer in Los Angeles and this thing comes up and somebody says Hey, I’ve got a project and I’ve got some guy with money. You have these meetings and that never works out. When I got to Mexico I realized this is absolutely something that people need. We can blow up a car in the street. We can do chases through the streets without much problem at all and I know that you can’t do that in LA. I realize that as far as buyers and what it takes to sell a film, they want action. A lot of the time it’s the easiest thing to sell for distributors and if we can give relatively high quality action films that have a nice big production value at a very, very low cost with kind of lower risk, less permits, less all that stuff, then there would pretty much always be work for us. We’ve had dry spells but there’s always somebody calling and saying Hey, I’ve got a film, it’s based in Mexico, what do you think? We always usually say Let’s read the script and we’ll see how we think we can work it out but we usually try to say yes. We’re not really afraid of any of the film challenges or budgetary challenges. We try to say yes on most things unless we feel that it’s not a good fit as far…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
R. Ellis Frazier is a producer and director, known for Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010), The Line (2009) and Misfire (2014) and many more. Frazier is the CEO of Badhouse Studios Mexico.
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