{"id":133459,"date":"2024-04-24T17:32:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=133459"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:52:28","slug":"it-was-never-in-question-that-this-would-be-as-bloody-as-it-is-moritz-mohr-on-boy-kills-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/it-was-never-in-question-that-this-would-be-as-bloody-as-it-is-moritz-mohr-on-boy-kills-world\/","title":{"rendered":"“It was never in question that this would be as bloody as it is.” Moritz Mohr on Boy Kills World"},"content":{"rendered":"
Directed by Moritz Mohr, produced by Sam Raimi and starring Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, Boy Kills World<\/strong> <\/em>follows \u2018Boy\u2019 (played by Skarsg\u00e5rd) who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless.<\/p>\n Driven by his inner voice (played by Archer’s<\/strong><\/em> and Bob’s Burger’s<\/strong><\/em> H. Jon Benjamin), one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game , Boy trains with a mysterious shaman (Yayan Ruhian) to become an instrument of death and is set loose on the eve of the annual culling of dissidents. Bedlam ensues as Boy commits bloody martial arts mayhem, inciting a wrath of carnage and blood-letting. As he tries to get his bearings in this delirious realm, Boy soon falls in with a desperate resistance group, all the while bickering with the apparent ghost of his rebellious little sister…<\/p>\n The movie was made after\u00a0Mohr, fight choreographer Dawid Szatarski and screenwriter Arend Remmers produced a proof-of-concept trailer for just $20,000. We sat down with Mohr to find out more about making the bloody action movie, what it’s like working with Sam Raimi and Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd and why he wanted to create a “fucked up fairytale”.<\/p>\n Me and some guys I know were wanting to do something that we actually liked. That’s when we shot this trailer. It took about a year and then basically on a whim, I went to LA. I didn’t think I would sell it and make the movie, it was like, ‘maybe it’ll get me a job’ because I’d shown it to people before and they were like ‘this is kind of good’ nothing like \u201cthis is amazing, we should make this!’ It was sort of a lackluster reaction most of the time.<\/p>\n So I went over there and showed it to people and to my surprise, they loved it! It was a completely different beast than back in Germany. Four meetings later, I was sitting in Sam Raimi\u2019s office, and we were off to the races.<\/p>\nHow did everything get started for you with Boy Kills World<\/em>?<\/h3>\n