The real antihero that Clint created became the model for Nic Cage’s character. “But the film that was really a guiding light in all that,” he continues, “was High Plains Drifter-not a car movie at all, but a quintessential ’70s movie. And then we said, ”˜Well, one of the most fun things about those movies is that the characters are all sort of versions of bad-nobody’s really good.’ And that really appealed to us as the story point. “Todd and I were sitting around and suddenly we started talking about these great old ’70s car movies,” he says, “like Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Vanishing Point. Lussier wanted to shoot another movie in 3-D after My Bloody Valentine-though “not one of those shitty post-conversion jobs”-and started trading story ideas with Drive cowriter Todd Farmer. So I really became fascinated in that way, and then one thing led to another.”
She would just fill me in on all these horrific details, and I would just be mesmerized by it. “Like Race With the Devil-which is one of the inspirations for Drive Angry-and then movies like the The Parallax View and things like that. “My sister, who was older than me, would go to the horror movies and she would come back and tell me all about them,” he recalls. He got into horror as a kid, reading Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, but back then he wasn’t allowed to watch scary flicks. Whatever he picked up at college continues to pay off, as Lussier’s name has also been attached to such future fear projects as Halloween 3 and the remake of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, for which he’s currently writing a script. “They told me I had no future in the movie industry. “I tried to get into the SFU film school and they wouldn’t let me,” he says with a laugh over the phone from his office in L.A. Back when he graduated from Burnaby Central High School, though, and set his sights on a film career, Lussier didn’t always get the postsecondary encouragement he might have deserved.
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