Ep171 - Ric Roman Waugh, Director ‘Angel Has Fallen,’ ‘Snitch,’ & ‘Shot Caller’

Ric Roman Waugh got his start as a stuntman. Working on films like ‘True Romance’ and ‘Days of Thunder,’ he got to know experts like Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer, which led to him writing and directing films like ‘Felon,’ ‘Snitch,’ and ‘Shot Caller.’ Now, he’s in the director’s chair for the third installment of the Gerard Butler trilogy, ‘Angel Has Fallen.’

In the new film, “Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.” Along with Butler, Morgan Freeman returns and additional cast includes Danny Huston and Piper Perabo.

In this exclusive interview, Waugh discusses why he writes every single day, his focus on moral ambiguity in storytelling, advice from Jerry Bruckheimer, how to walk the line between franchise and stand-alone movie, why the theme of a script is everything in filmmaking, and he shares a few details about his upcoming apocalyptic film, ‘Greenland,’ which also stars Gerard Butler.

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