One Fast Move Director Kelly Blatz on Working With K.J. Apa & Eric Dane By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to One Fast Move director Kelly Blatz about the .
Blatz discussed the characters, star and Eric Dane, and more. The film begins streaming on Prime Video on August 8, 2024. “One Fast Move is an action-adventure thrill ride about a young man down on his luck who seeks out his estranged father to help him pursue his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer,” says the synopsis.
“With the help of his small town love interest and a motorcycle shop owner who moonlights as his mentor, he begins to break down the walls that his father’s absence had built up.” : It was a dream come true to blend both. I mean, that’s where this film came from.
Motorcycles came late in my life. It came in my late twenties, and it really was at a time when I needed them, and I didn’t know it. It was a form of meditation for me.
It was a challenge. It was a part of my identity at that point. Obviously, I love film and was making films and I hadn’t seen a grounded motorcycle racing film.
We’ve had a lot of motorcycle films, even one recently with The Bikeriders, but I hadn’t seen something set in the world of supersport racing. I love great sports dramas like The Fighter, Rocky, and Raging Bull and these are also great character pieces. So my attempt with this was to create a very strong character drama from themes that I was taking from my own life while mixing it with the world of motorcycle racing.
It was a dream with K.J., honestly.
He came on board about a year before we started shooting, and he was in the middle, I think, of the sixth season of Riverdale. An insane schedule he was on. His creative energy is really unbounded and his passion and commitment.
.. I mean, he was calling me almost every single day throughout that year with questions and ideas.
He’d say, “Oh, in the middle of the night I had this thought about this particular scene. What do you think?” As a director and a writer, you know, that is a dream to have an actor who’s that committed and who cares that much. Because throughout that year, there were these amazing discoveries, so many that came from these conversations that he and I had.
So that by the time we were shooting, all those questions had been answered, and it was just ready to explore and to see what was gonna happen on the set. But there were no questions about the material and about the character. So I can’t say enough about K.
J. Apa. He is just a dream to work with and an incredible talent.
Oh, absolutely. He had never really ridden before. I threw him on my Triumph for a couple of months, and then he ended up buying three bikes, and he was riding those bikes for an entire year.
So he really wanted to make sure he felt comfortable on a bike while also falling in love with motorcycles and what it gave him, which was really important for him to understand that. Because that’s a lot of the theme of the film, and yeah, his dedication means so much to me. I hope to do every film with K.
J. Apa, to be honest. Oh, I’m glad you recognized that.
Thank you. For me, Dean was a character who was stunted in his maturation. He was still living like he’s 22 years old, and I feel like Wes showing up was a catalyst for him to have to deal with, I think, this biggest thing that was holding back his maturation, which I think he had felt this guilt and this shame for abandoning his son before he was born and essentially shedding his responsibility.
So when Wes shows up, he has to face all these things. Now he has to face the abandonment, he has to face all these things. For me, Dean is somebody who is incredibly charismatic.
He’s a guy you’d love to have a beer with, but who also is harboring these demons within him. Eric, he’s an amazing actor, and he just carries that balance so well. To your point, I didn’t see Dean as having this massive transformation because I don’t think we can change that much in that quickly [a time].
But I do think that through this process, he at least recognizes Wes and gives him validation, teaches him something. He’s able to give his son something that he knows, which is motorcycle racing. Maybe he’s not gonna be the empathetic, caring, loving father, but he’s able to give him something, and he’s there and present in his life moving forward.
Tyler Treese is ComingSoon and SuperHeroHype's Editor-in-Chief. An experienced entertainment journalist, his work can be seen at Sherdog, Fanbyte, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more. When not watching the latest movies, Treese enjoys mixed martial arts and playing with his Shiba Inu, Kota.
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