Interceptor Director Matthew Reilly on Elsa Patak and Finding A Role for Chris Hemsworth

The threat of war with Russia looms ever nearer, so Interceptor seems like the film we all need right now. Written and directed by Matthew Reilly, the film takes a look at what would happen if malevolent forces took control of America’s two interceptor stations: places where American forces have a limited window to shoot down incoming Russian bombs. The action film stars Elsa Pataky as an Army captain who is assigned to an interceptor base in the middle of the ocean. She is barely there for a few hours when they come under attack by Russian pawns who are determined to take control of the site so that their bombs hit their American targets. What evolves is 90 minutes of pulse-pounding action. Reilly, whose career started as a novelist, spoke to Collider about the difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay (“A novel is like running a marathon; writing a screenplay is like Usain Bolt running a 100-meter sprint at the Olympics“); why Interceptor was better suited for t