“You can’t walk into an interview with a real person, who’s going through real pain, or anything dealing with the human condition, and bring some Hollywood bullsh*t. “The last docuseries I did, man, that sh*t really changed me,” he said. That Hughes believes the docu form is superior to narrative films is saying something, coming from a filmmaker whose credits include The Book of Eli, From Hell, Menace II Society and others he directed with twin brother Albert. These music docus take him three years to generate, and Hughes said he is aiming for a spring 2022 airdate for Outlaw on FX. Hughes took on this job after directing the acclaimed 2017 HBO documentary The Defiant Ones, about the twisty road that led to the billion-dollar partnership between Dr. If I was just directing an action film, and we’d had to shut down, it wouldn’t really affect the outcome of the ultimate film.” It has made me more a fan of the documentary medium than the fiction medium, because of the way what’s happening in the world affects the DNA of the film. There was emotion before, but it was a different type. There is emotion coursing through the interviews now. “There is this fragility and vulnerability laced through all the interviews now, like everyone had been affected by the preciousness of life. “When we started doing interviews again, I noticed something that was really interesting with the subjects,” said Hughes.
Henson Teams With Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation To Address Mental Health Needs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic (L-R) Tim Roth and Allen Hughes El Matador Prods Gracie Newman Hughes thinks the pandemic might fuel a bumper crop of better docus as on-camera subjects feel more passionate than they did when we all took life for granted. He believes it is a direct result of personal reflection during the long self-quarantine, coupled with tumultuous events like the death of George Floyd and aftermath that shone a light on police brutality toward Blacks. What has surprised Hughes is how the interviews he is getting now are so much richer than before. The pandemic brought the progress of the docu to a screeching halt - Hughes did many pre-interviews and some on-camera interviews in the interim, but felt that Zoom interviews don’t hold a candle to what you get when you are in the face of an interview subject, even if you are 6 feet apart. EXCLUSIVE: Allen Hughes has resumed work on Outlaw: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, the five-part FX documentary series about the volatile life and legacy of the late hip hip icon/poet, and the Black Panther member mother who raised him with the values that infused his socially conscious music.
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