Director Patrick Hughes on filming The Man from Toronto | Digital Trends

Some of the best action comedies are ones that are rooted in mistaken identities. From Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest to Shawn Levy’s Date Night, these films put their protagonists through hell all because of a simple misunderstanding of who they are and, more importantly, what they do.

Patrick Hughes: I was doing postproduction on The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard in Bulgaria and I got a phone call from my agent saying that Kevin Hart had a project and he was interested to chat. I hit it off with him and we started developing it together and took it from there.Oh, they’re incredible. I mean, they’re both screen icons, but I think the thing that really sort of blew me away was just the chemistry that those two had. And you never quite know if you’re going to get it.

With The Man from Toronto and The Hitman’s Bodyguard movies, you seem to specialize now in action comedies. Why is that particular genre appealing? It’s always about two characters who are often forced together. Neither one of them want to be in a room with the other, but you’re forcing them on this journey together. That’s why Midnight Run is one of the greatest examples of the buddy action comedy because both Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin’s characters are handcuffed together. You can’t force people together any more than that!

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