This image released by Focus Features shows Tom Hardy, left, and Austin Butler in a scene from "The Bikeriders." The obsession started in his brother’s apartment, when he first cracked open Danny Lyon’s book “The Bikeriders,” a New Journalism-style account of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the mid-1960s. He could see the movie in his mind: A story about rebels, romantics, frauds and the end of an era.The bikes were vintage.
“I read a lot of scripts and this one just felt different,” Butler said. “It felt full of humanity and these cinematic moments I could see in my mind’s eye. I felt like I was being invited into this other world. And he was one of the coolest characters I’ve ever read.” “At some point you have to find a balance between the character that’s on the page and the human being you have playing that part,” Nichols said. “And that character got better because of him.”In his many years of thinking about how to make “The Bikeriders” work one of Nichols’ biggest breakthroughs was when he realized who the narrator should be: Kathy.“If you ask Danny, Kathy was one of the most interesting people there. She just pops off the page,” Nichols said.
“The ultimate truth, and a subtext of the film, is that men are really bad at sharing their emotions,” he said. “Observing this group in the hands of a male narrator I think would be really boring.”“The Bikeriders” is a work of fiction. Nichols didn’t want to be the historian of the Outlaws, a group that still exists. He mostly wanted to capture this time and culture and evoke the feeling he got when he opened that book so many years ago.
“It got misreported,” Nichols said. “It was frustrating. It was like, you all have a fundamental misunderstanding how this film was made.”
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