{"id":1465,"date":"2008-03-07T06:33:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/07\/interview-pete-travis-and-matthew-fox-on-vantage-point\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T21:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T21:37:23","slug":"interview-pete-travis-and-matthew-fox-on-vantage-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/07\/interview-pete-travis-and-matthew-fox-on-vantage-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Pete Travis and Matthew Fox on Vantage Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pete Travis (left) and Matthew Fox (right)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443274\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pete Travis (left) and Matthew Fox (right)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pete-travis-and-matthew-fox.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Travis (left) and Matthew Fox (right)\" width=\"269\" height=\"275\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This week sees the release of conspiracy thriller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443274\/\"><strong>Vantage Point<\/strong><\/a>, which is directed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0871428\/\">Pete Travis<\/a> <\/strong>and stars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0289142\/\"><strong>Matthew Fox<\/strong><\/a>, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to Pete about what the film is about, whether bad times make for good movies, moving from docu-dramas to a mainstream thriller like this and the release of his previous film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0408056\/\">Omagh<\/a> on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>With Matthew I discussed his character, the choice of Pete as director and how Lost (in which he plays the character of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Shephard\">Jack Shepherd<\/a>) has been affected by the recent writer&#8217;s strike.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interviews below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Pete_Travis_and_Matthew_Fox_on_Vantage_Point.MP3]\n<p>To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Vantage Point <\/strong>is out now in UK cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Pete_Travis_and_Matthew_Fox_on_Vantage_Point.MP3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Get local show times for Vantage Point via Google Movies<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0871428\/\">Pete Travis<\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0289142\/\">Matthew Fox<\/a> <\/strong>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\">IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/matthew-fox.net\/\">Fansite for Matthew Fox<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/overlord\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week sees the release of conspiracy thriller Vantage Point, which is directed by Pete Travis and stars Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver. I spoke to Pete about what the film is about, whether bad times make for good movies, moving from docu-dramas to a mainstream thriller like this and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}