Q: Where did you get the idea for “Condor’s Nest”?īlattenberger: We took something that would be inherently fun - a classic Nazi-hunting mission across South America - and decided that the best way to approach that subject matter, to make it unique, was to infuse it with a little bit of Tarantino-esque irreverence for history while honoring the important aspects of the groundwork, and infusing that with an “Indiana Jones”-esque layer of adventure. That was my first and only foray into film. It was this goofy karate movie about some teenage detectives that were doing karate and shot it (using) a little home camcorder. It got me extremely interested in martial arts, which is something that I started when I was 10 or 11, and then just for the heck of it, I wrote my first screenplay at 12. If I had to credit it to one thing, it was seeing the original “ Karate Kid,” which came out in 1984 and I didn’t see it until probably ’95. There was actually very, very little TV or movies consumption. I always had my nose in a book, or I was always outside. Question: Were you a big movie buff growing up? In a recent phone interview with The Dispatch, he talked about his new movie.īlack cinema: 'Pioneers' of Black cinema to be featured at Gateway Film Center In 2001, Blattenberger’s family relocated to North Carolina, where the filmmaker still makes his home. I’ve got nothing but good memories it was a great place to grow up.” I grew up fishing in different lakes and tromping around in the woods. Part of Blattenberger’s own journey included a childhood spent, in part, in the Buckeye state: The future filmmaker’s family moved around a lot, living some of the time in Minnesota, Colorado and, during a chunk of his adolescence, Cincinnati and Wilmington in Clinton County. Bruce Davison, Michael Ironside and James Urbaniak round out the cast. Owing more than a little to Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” “Condor’s Nest” stars Jacob Keohane as an American World War II veteran who journeys to South America to round up an assortment of ex-Nazis. On Friday, Blattenberg’s sophomore effort, “Condor’s Nest,” will have a limited theatrical release that doesn't include Columbus, but the movie will be on available demand wherever digital content is offered including Dish, Spectrum, Comcast, Apple TV, Amazon, Vudu and YouTube. That became his debut directorial effort, the 2018 war drama “ Point Man.” Stimulated by the experience, he wrote a screenplay about the Vietnam War as something of a lark. In pursuit of a master’s degree from UNC at Charlotte, he traveled to Vietnam for research. Writer-director Phil Blattenberger has traveled a long and winding road to Hollywood.Ī native of Maryland, Blattenberger studied history and anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
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