It’s a story that has roots planted in the 70’s and if approached cleverly, we could create a real interesting atmosphere. The first decision when thinking of how I would direct was to authenticate the feeling of the era through how I tell the story. We currently have lots of content taking place in the 80’s but one common theme I see in all of them is that the techniques applied in capturing the footage is very current. I have the benefit of starting my career as a filmmaker by using Film and decided right away to apply these same disciplines to how I would direct Big Wheels. My approach is to capture this story the same way it would have been done in the 80’s and thus be able to achieve a certain aged feel of authenticity that you wouldn’t see in modern works of this same era even though we never outright specify what year this film takes place.

Another element of this film has to do with timing and performance. The mantra we used when creating this film was taken right from the late Sidney Lumet and that word is “Resist”. With this word as our foundation, I then looked towards the bottled energy of some of Milos Forman’s early works (especially One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). The last well I drew inspiration from was my own upbringing growing up in a more troubled low income area in my city. I have seen what a man fueled by dangerous aggression can accomplish by scaring those around him. I wanted to revisit this toxicity that I saw all around me growing up and how it made me feel. I wanted to step into these peoples heads, and then mix in all the other ingredients I already had at my disposal, a keen knowledge of Stephen King’s Universe and how to benefit from the rules of his worlds and my deep knowledge of filmmaking and visual storytelling from past masters of directing from the renaissance of Hollywood.