Photos from the movie "What Doesn't Kill You"
Starring Ethan
Hawke, Brian Goodman, Amanda Peet and Mark Ruffalo
These are some of the photos from the movie What Doesn't Kill You showing different scenes as seen in the movie.
Be certain to also watch the movie trailer for this new movie coming out in December 2009
"The New Movie "What Doesn't Kill You" Is A Return to the Golden Age of Drama"
Film director Brian Goodman’s passionate leadership drives WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU into a league of dramas that Hollywood has gotten away from making.
Ethan Hawke observes that this new movie “is a powerful piece of filmmaking because it has what the best movies do:
it is simultaneously dramatic and exciting and entertaining while offering the audience something true about living life and somebody who’s learned something.”
Hawke observes that big studio movies are grounded firmly in bigger than life, over the top, FX-laden summer tent pole genre pictures,
leaving less room for films like WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU. Not that Hawke is disdainful of big action movies, he’s quick to point out.
“It is fun to be in a big action movie. It’s amusing. But they’re much more fun to see than they are to work on.
The problem is people think when you say that, you know, you make fun of action movies, that you don’t like them.
I love to go on the Fourth of July and see an action movie and eat popcorn. I like to do it all the time. But to shoot one for nine months is dreadfully boring.”
Mark Ruffalo agrees. “I always wanted to do like some shoot-em-up action stuff like this, but those movies are usually so stupid I can’t stomach it.
With WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, the material’s fun. It’s fun to play these kinds of guys in a way that’s authentic. It’s great because get to do all the shoot-em-up stuff and still I can be a real person and see the cost of that shoot-em-up stuff to somebody’s life.”
For both Ruffalo and Hawke, the movie is a throwback to the golden age of blue collar dramas.
“It has that RAGING BULL kind of intensity to it,” Ruffalo says, explaining that “it’s just really honest, gritty, and real. It’s got all the kitchen sink stuff.”
Hawke agrees: “It’s going to be good the way ON THE WATERFRONT was good. It’s going to be a keyhole into another universe for people, a very specific, very real universe -
the same way MEAN STREETS was when Scorsese made it.”
For Hawke, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU fulfills his life ambition: “I wanted to become an actor because of the old school kind of dramas that they don’t really make anymore.
The reason I want to do this professionally is because it’s straight from somebody’s heart, and there’s something very moving about this story and very true about it,
and there’s something very moving and honest about Brian Goodman, the director. And this is exactly the kind of movie I have always wanted to make.”
 Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Peet |
Mark Ruffalo and director Brian Goodman on the set of WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU |
Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo |
 Brian Goodman in WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, a Yari Film Group release. ©2008 Yari Film Group Releasing. |
Mark Ruffalo in WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU |
 Ethan Hawke, Brian Goodman, and Mark Ruffalo |
 Another shot of Brian Goodman, writer and director of the movie WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU |
Look for the new movie coming in December
A Bob Yari Productions/ Battleplan Production
A Film by Brian Goodman
Yari Film Group