{"id":1706998,"date":"2022-10-22T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706998"},"modified":"2022-10-22T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:23:50","slug":"dangerous-game-director-jon-voight-is-the-consummate-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-game-director-jon-voight-is-the-consummate-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDangerous Game\u201d Director: Jon Voight Is the Consummate Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdangerous-game-director-jon-voight-is-the-consummate-professional%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706998&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sean-McNamara-Dangerous-Game-Jon-Voight-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Audiences know director Sean McNamara for faith-friendly films like \u201cSoul Surfer,\u201d \u201cThe Miracle Season\u201d and \u201cHoovey.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why McNamara\u2019s latest, \u201cDangerous Game: The Legacy Murders\u201d may come as a shock. The R-rated mystery has a sizable body count, genre-style gore and some diabolical twists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a complete departure,\u201d McNamara admits with a chuckle. \u201cI wanted to try something new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDangerous Game\u201d follows a dysfunctional clan gathering at the behest of its wealthy patriarch, played by screen icon Jon Voight. They must set their squabbling aside when a voice compels them to play an immersive murder mystery game \u2026 with deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The body count rises while the remaining family members scramble to unlock the puzzle. It\u2019s like an Agatha Christie yarn, as told by horror maestro Eli Roth.<\/p>\n<p>What isn\u2019t new for McNamara with his latest project? Working with Voight. The two collaborated on the \u201cBaby Geniuses\u201d franchise and the upcoming \u201cReagan\u201d biopic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a consummate professional. He starts his research months before [the production begins],\u201d McNamara says of Voight, who plays a KGB agent in \u201cReagan,\u201d set for a 2023 release.<\/p>\n<p>Voight isn\u2019t just one of the best actors of his generation, says the director. He\u2019s a committed artist and collaborator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sits with me and talks about the whole story, to make sure the whole story works. He\u2019s right there and he makes it a better film,\u201d he says, adding Voight\u2019s presence has an impact on his co-stars, too. \u201cAll those young people on the set, they\u2019re upping their game around somebody who\u2019s such a great star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/clue-review-1985\/\"><strong>RELATED: THE UNDENIABLE REASON \u2018CLUE\u2019 BECAME A CULT CLASSIC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McNamara\u2019s film canon doesn\u2019t include any MCU fare or \u201cTransformer\u201d romps. He\u2019s a personal director, telling stories that uplift audiences. For \u201cDangerous Game,\u201d he entered a new realm of splashy FX and horror-approved makeup.<\/p>\n<p>In one scene, Voight\u2019s character suffers an electric shock, forcing the actor to endure a sizable makeup update to show its impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery movie I do I have to learn something new .. that\u2019s what makes movies fun,\u201d he says, an enthusiasm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/his-new-film-may-be-a-mystery-but-jon-voights-longevity-in-hollywood-is-no-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voight said attracted him to the project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even McNamara\u2019s extensive Hollywood resume may not prepare him for his next project. \u201cReagan,\u201d starring Dennis Quaid as the conservative hero, should inflame the culture wars anew.<\/p>\n<p>The director suggests his approach won\u2019t be to blame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not very political at all. I\u2019m very independent,\u201d says McNamara, who notes \u201cRocky\u201d director John G. Avildsen was set to direct the long-gestating biopic before he passed in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>McNamara initially thought he was an awkward fit for the project.\u00a0A quick read of the script changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a family film,\u201d he says, one that tracks Reagan\u2019s life from his childhood to his two terms in the Oval Office, and beyond. \u201cSixty percent of the film is [set] before he becomes president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film will be received warmly by Red State U.S.A., no doubt, but McNamara says the biopic doesn\u2019t shy away from the president\u2019s political hurdles, like the Iran-Contra scandal and the AIDS crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Gipper\u2019s remarkable career arc may come as a surprise to audiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople hated him back in the \u201860s \u2026 and he was done with politics for four to five years, and then he became president,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjYYFxshxLN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The director\u2019s next projects expand his creative canvas beyond \u201cGame\u2019s\u201d death and destruction. One fact-based tale follows a couple who got married at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dachau_concentration_camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dachau concentration camps<\/a>, an \u201camazing love story,\u201d he says of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk\/contents\/polandresists\/josefbau.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josef and Rebecca Bau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also directing \u201cTrinity,\u201d a big-screen adaptation of Leon Uris\u2019 tome concerning Ireland\u2019s fight for freedom during the late 1800s, early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDangerous Game: The Legacy Murders\u201d is the latest film to debut in both theaters and VOD. McNamara sounds hopeful that audiences will seek his movie out on both platforms. The mystery offers an original yarn, one without franchise ties or IP considerations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want new material, they\u2019re hungry for new films, whether it\u2019s on film or digital,\u201d he says. \u201cThe appetite for film is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiences know director Sean McNamara for faith-friendly films like \u201cSoul Surfer,\u201d \u201cThe Miracle Season\u201d and \u201cHoovey.\u201d It\u2019s why McNamara\u2019s latest, \u201cDangerous Game: The Legacy Murders\u201d may come as a shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}