MOVIE NEWS – The drama Bikers is already being referred to as a cult film, which examines a typical American myth, showing how the motorcycle clubs of the sixties turned into dangerous criminal gangs.

The film, featuring two Oscar nominees – Austin Butler and Tom Hardy – was written and directed by Jeff Nichols, who was shot in Berlin and they like to be honored at Cannes (Midnight Vision: Golden Bear; two Cannes Palme d’Or nominations: Loving, Mud).

When Nichols, who always directs from his own scripts, was asked about Motorcycles which role was more important to him, he summed it up nicely. “I’m primarily a screenwriter, because that’s always the task that comes first, and that’s when you have time to think about everything,” he told the Daily Texan. – Being a director is crazy, you have to fight with the budget, race against time, and you always have the feeling that you are holding the world together, which is about to collapse on you. As a writer, you just sit and chew on the subject. That’s why I don’t think much on the set either: the person who wrote the script, that is me, has already thought about everything, and the director, who is also me, just needs to put it on film. I love that I put so much work into the script and it pays off. I’m not saying that writing a screenplay is the biggest miracle, because shooting a sixties motorcycle movie with the best actors in the world is at least as much of a miracle.”

(Bikeriders – domestic release: June 20, 2024.)