In this first Season 12 edition of Interview, Last Resort Films president Phil Dolan sits down with writer Meirad Tako (Driving Around the Time, Police Story: The Return), to discuss his upcoming film Assassin's Creed: The New Order, as well as some films from the past few seasons that maybe didn't work so well....
PD: What inspired you to write an original story set within the world of the Assassin's Creed video games?
MT: First of all, thank you for once again have an interview with me. I'm don't really know what inspired me, it just come to my mind. And I just love to make an original story inside an already built world, like with Evangelion. I think some people thought I directly adapted the actual Evangelion, but I actually just made a story within the Evangelion's world.
PD: The video games are set in various historical time periods and locales. What gave you the idea to pick the unique setting featured in your film?
MT: The main idea is just that i want to share my country's history, I think all of you want to do that as well. For a little information about why it's called " The New Order", it is a kind of good and bad era at the same time for Indonesia, it was an era of dictatorship lead by president Suharto, our second president that took over by dethroning our first president by accusing him being a Communist.
PD: Season 9 was a rough season for you as a writer with both of your films that season, Alternative and Evangelion, lost a great deal of money at the box office. Do you have any regrets regarding those two films?
MT: I actually have a kind of regret for Alternative. I totally regret of my decision to keep Tim Burton and some other cast. After the screening I feel like they are not ripe enough. And for Evangelion, that regret is that I didn't give any detail for the viewers before the screening that it is not an actual Evangelion. I really love Evangelion and don't think I made a good live action adaptation. I'm so sorry to make all Evangelion fans upset.
PD: Last season you had a surprise success with Police Story: The Return. Do you plan on revisiting those characters?
MT: For Police Story, it is kinda crazy that it got a good little profit, and I totally have a sequel idea, but the problem is that idea is kind of similar to the other Police Story films. I still need more time to refine the story, but still I cannot promise that it would be totally different from the previous Police Story films.
PD: What's next for you?
MT: The next... I actually don't remember what movies I have coming out next, but I got one that still fresh in my mind that I just turned in. It's an idea for a trilogy of films. The first one, The Refugee, I have been pitched. I hope it gets enough profits so it can get greenlighted for the second and/or third film. And believe it or not, but I was inspired for the Fantasy/Action idea from watching a YouTube video from someone named "Graystillplays" (shout out yo!). And once again thank you so much for interviewing me!
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