Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Kelly Blatz writes and directs ONE FAST MOVE. In this interview, Kelly talks about his love for motorcycles, about working with an amazing cast and about the message of the movie. 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. 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. Actors KJ Apa, Eric Dane, Edward James Olmos and Maia Reficco star in the film, available on Prime Video.
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00:00I'm a motorcycle enthusiast, I ride, I'm obsessed with motorcycles and, you know, for me, they had
00:06such a huge impact in my life, in my identity, that I wanted to essentially have an homage or
00:12love letter to motorcycles. So, and I realized that there wasn't a film set in the world of
00:17motorcycle racing. No, it just hadn't been done before. So I took it as a great challenge that
00:22maybe I'm the person to make this film. And also thematically, I was at a point in my life where,
00:27you know, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be a man in the modern world, you know,
00:31and searching for mentors and guidance about, about, yeah, going from essentially young man
00:36to man. And all those questions led me into writing it all in one fast move.
00:43I was working with Eric, with Edward and the rest of the cast on set.
00:48Oh, it was an absolute dream.
00:50A dream. I mean, I mean, Edward James Olmos, I've loved him since I was a kid.
00:55He's just an incredible actor, legendary. And I was so grateful that he responded to the script
01:01and I couldn't imagine the film without all of them. But Edward was just an incredible man
01:05and mentor to me. Eric Dane, obviously a wonderful actor and was so perfect for the role of Dean and
01:11brought so much of himself and his life into this film. KJ Apa is just a dream. You know,
01:16he came on for a year before we started shooting. He developed the script and the character with me.
01:21Just a great actor, fully committed, wonderful, wonderful guy. And Maya Rafiko, of course,
01:26an incredible talent, amazing singer. You know, she's on Broadway right now. She's
01:31just an amazing talent and a ray of light and really brought that, you know, she lights up
01:36the screen in one fast move. And so I can't say enough about it. It was just a dream.
01:41But there's always challenges that come up every day with unexpected things. But I would say that
01:45the main thing with the racing, for instance, because you're dealing with the fast moving bikes
01:51is safety and weather. You know, there was a lot of thunderstorms, lightning storms and rain. And
01:56so we had to, you know, we had a lot of delays in terms of waiting for the track and waiting for it
02:00to be safe. But again, those things are expected. You know, you roll with them and it ends up being
02:04exactly how it should be. But other challenges, I would say, just really wanting to try to capture
02:10the speed of the bikes, you know, was a challenge. But ultimately, when you have a great team and you
02:16have the time to prep and great racers, you know, we were able to to capture it. You know,
02:23Dean Miller is somebody who I think was didn't know how to be a father. You know, he wasn't
02:30shown how to be a father. So when you know, when he has a son, I think his the easiest thing for
02:37him to do is take a one fast move and get out of there, you know, and, you know, that obviously
02:43creates a void, I think, both in himself and a sense of guilt and shame for leaving, but also
02:50within his son. And so I would say, you know, it's two men who have a lot of pain, who are
02:56not good at expressing their feelings, who ultimately, by the end, are able to express
03:01those feelings, work for those conflicts and are better and changed for it moving forward.
03:08Hope for redemption, you know, that that people can change. And I think a lot of the catalyst for
03:13change is a lot of the first starting point is forgiveness. You know, so I do believe that we can
03:20we can heal these fractured relationships. If we express our truths, you know.
03:27And what's next for you?
03:29It's a great question. I don't know, I have a few things going on. But we'll see which one wants to
03:35jump out of the gate first. So we'll see.