![]() How did these international impact the film? Specifically, do you think this will help the film do better globally? Yanes: In addition to Enter The Warriors Gate being shot in China and Canada, it was also produced by Chinese and French companies. Tonally Pirates of the Caribbean was also a touchstone for fun, quirky action adventure. For the Asian part I was vibing on Hero, House of Flying Daggers and all those millions of 1980s Ninja movies I watched and forgot all the names off. The wizard character is inspired by the wizard in Sword in the Stone as well as Fizban in the Dragonlance books by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. Of course The Last Starfighter sprung to mind. Hoene: I was thinking of the old Amblin classics like E.T. Yanes: When you began developing the look for the movie and its action sequences, were there any movies you paid homage to? When I started reading I fell in love with the innocent 90ties throwback vibes, the easy going humour, the big archetypal characters, the beautiful fantasy setting and the action. You can imagine my excitement when I received the script with Luc’s and Robert Kamen’s name on the coverpage. Hoene: Ever since I managed to get a yellow belt in Ninjutsu, I always wanted to make a martial arts movie, but I thought that only two Western producers would be credible enough to do it with: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson. Yanes: What attracted you to Enter The Warriors Gate ? Was there something in the script that specifically resonated for you? I’ll leave you to guess what the ‘etc’ stand for. ![]() That said, I also did not want to make the switch into films only to be doing a horror sequel, so I tried the hard way and developed my own original story Cockneys vs Zombies which incidentally might soon find itself serialized on TV as Cockneys vs Zombies ETC. It’s the difference between a sprint and a marathon. But the storytelling in commercials is mostly done in 10-20 shots, and in films it’s not about shots but all about the scenes. Hoene: Commercials give you a technical experience and ease on set that is helpful when making the switch to films. What are some of the key ways producing commercials have prepare you to make feature length movies? Yanes: You mainly began your film career by making commercials. Martins College in London that I found fellow filmmakers and was inspired to pick up my first Super 8 cameras and make those pictures move. I was fascinated by the worlds that filmmakers where creating, but having grown up in a family of scientists with literally no connections to anyone working in film it was only at St. Hoene: I started as an illustrator for some small German fantasy role playing games like Der Ruf Des Warlocks. Did you specifically go to school to learn about film making? If not, how did you learn? Yanes: I couldn’t find much information about your education. But I like having a hand in shaping the tone and overall feel of a project and decided very early on that I would only direct and with that mantra I worked my way up. Hoene: I was doing everything on my first shorts and music videos: Writing, directing, cinematography, acting, editing and sound design and I always loved all the different aspects of the process. Yanes: On this note, when did you know you wanted to have a career in cinema production? Do you think there was a specific movie that pushed you in this direction? I was also into fantasy role playing games and started illustrating covers for local fanzines and games, before getting curious about how to make those images move. ![]() There I got into obscure Eastern European stop motion by Jan Svankmayer, discovered Japanese Anime, French arthouse like Delicatessen, New Zealand arthouse like Braindead and Hong Kong action cinema like Tsui Hark’s A Chinese Ghost Story, Zhang Ymou’s Hero and The 36 th Chambre of Shaolin. Matthias Hoene: I was inspired by my bi-weekly trips to my local VHS rental store the ‘Videodrome’ in Berlin. To learn more about Hoene’s work check out his homepage and follow him on twitter at Yanes: Growing up, what were some of the movies and shows that caused you to fall in love with filmmaking? Wanting to learn more about his newest film and his career, Hoene allowed me to interview him for ScifiPulse. Hoene’s latest film is an action-adventure martial arts fantasy called, Enter The Warriors Gate. ![]() Hoene made the jump to feature length films by writing and directing Cockneys vs Zombies. Martins and then transitioning into commercials and music videos. He pursued this passion by studying at Central St. Matthias Hoene has had a love of films since the days of VHS rental stores.
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