I honestly think it’s going to have that amount of impact in terms of when people talk about music and film, that is going to be one of the baseline movies that people refer to. For me to say that I was part of that … There will be artists that will be envious of me, that I was able to have a song in Baby Driver. But people will be talking about the use of music in Baby Driver for decades. I mean, I saw the film, I saw the press screening a week ago, and the use is great! I mean, I was just happy to be a part of it.Ī lot of times you have your song in a movie and it’s cool for what it is. MY: The fact that someone appreciated it and would put it in such an eclectic and interesting soundtrack, was amazing. Can you tell me what it means to you to have a song in a big movie that’s getting a ton of heat right now? RI: Your song “Know How” is on the Baby Driver soundtrack. I’m 50 years old now, so I’m not at the point where I’m so interested in just communicating some personal idea as I am trying to craft a career and make a smart second film as opposed to just a convenient second film or an indulgent second film. But I really need to see how Justice Served performs, where it performs well, where I get the best and most enthusiastic response, and that’s going to dictate my next project. The promotion has been done, the money is coming in, whatever, so I’ve got notes, but I’ve got other things happening. I can’t get into the second project until I see the first project all the way through. MY: I am eyeing a followup, but the problem is, I can’t detach my left brain from my right brain. From getting him and him buying in and him willing to work with me as a first-time director, that really grew suspense for a lot of the other actors to come in and for a lot of good things to happen with the making of the film. He had a really strong reaction to the Callas character. We went out to a good amount of actors for several of the roles and did the two ensemble piece, but he was the first, and really the biggest actor to come back. MY: He read the script and he loved the character. RI: That leads to my next question: Lance Henriksen is one of the great genre film actors, brings a ton of cache for people who love sci-fi and horror. So if it was just my face and a bunch of unknown faces in there, that the story would be enough to hold the audience. There are three different justice rooms going, so there’s six characters in those justice rooms-three plaintiffs and three defendants, and I made sure that I made the characters varied enough that anybody watching should be able to relate to one or more of those characters and say to yourself, “What would I do if I was in that situation?” And when I was making the film I had no idea I was going to get a bunch of famous actors to be in it. It was literally me thinking of a scene that would be the most tense for anybody not just me, but for anybody. RI: Is there anything personal in it for you in terms of where the idea of a justice room came from? That’s where the idea of the justice room was born, and having people in a confined location, but with circumstances bringing them together that increase the tension in that scene, and thus the film. I really took that to heart and wanted to see if there was a way that I could create something that had tension in every scene. I was getting coverage on one of my previous screenplays that I’d put a lot of time and work into, and the main criticism that I got on that previous screenplay was that there wasn’t enough tension that there should be tension in every scene. Marvin Young: It’s the seventh screenplay that I’ve written. RI Mag: Justice Served tells the story of victims of crimes who get to re-try the perpetrators who escaped justice. He sat down with Robert Irvine Magazine to talk about his career evolution, what inspires him, and the state of hip-hop today. (You can check out the trailer HERE.) Young is also currently on tour with “I Love The 90s” and his new song “Know How” is featured prominently on the soundtrack to Baby Driver, starring Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm. His first feature film, Justice Served, starring genre favorite Lance Henriksen premiered in May and is available now on DVD and on demand. Marvin “Young MC” Young might best be known for his 1989 megahit “Bust a Move” and his writing credits on Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina” and “Wild Thing” but he continues to create new material-both as a recording artist and now as a film director.
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