Daniel Espinosa On Return To Roots With ‘Madame Luna’ & ‘The Helicopter Heist’, Says A Different Director Might “Have Been A Better Fit” For ‘Morbius’ – Taormina
deadline.comSwedish-Chilean filmmaker Daniel Espinosa is feeling reinvigorated after returning to Europe to make his latest feature, Madame Luna, as well as Netflix’s upcoming crime drama The Helicopter Heist.
The director of Easy Money, Life, Safe House and Morbius tells Deadline: “I spent 12 years in America … and it slowly got apparent to me that what I was doing made me slowly drift away from the reason I actually started making pictures.
So I really had a necessity somehow to get back to why I do movies at all.” After spending a year in prison as a teenager following some minor crimes, Espinosa was sent to boarding school.
There he met the son of filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom, which “kind of opened up my idea to make pictures. The idea was to make movies about the reality that I knew, that most people didn’t — that’s Easy Money.” That 2010 Joel Kinnaman starrer was a breakout for Espinosa, and Hollywood films followed, including Sony/Marvel’s 2022 Morbius, whose release was delayed because of the pandemic and which took a critical drubbing, underperforming at the box office.
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