King Ivory (2024)

King-Ivory-(2024)
King Ivory (2024)

The team behind the opioid crime thriller King Ivory Share a rather unique experience during their travels to the Venice Film Festival this year.

It seems that a flight from New York led to many missing the connection, with Foster, Melissa Leo, and her producer Jeremy Rosen along with the director John Swab being part of many who drowned. The rest of the team was stuck in Munich waiting a very long time to get a flight to Venice.

He notes how through their experience, the chances of all getting seats on a single plane were very slim so he opted for a Mack van road trip for around seven hours into Italy.

When John and Rosen made their way to the Venice Film Festival, they were met with outstanding reviews for their movie King Ivory which made its first appearance in the Extra Horizon tournament. The film had an exceptional and unique story and can be rounded up to fairly good, even when it was called “Traffic” in this new era of fentanyl.

The trip permitted yet another step also for Rosen together with John Swab, further cementing ties of what has become their increasingly fast-becoming production base in Tulsa, Ok.

Managed by Rosen’s Roxwell Films. The producer further explains that aside from the title of the movie, “King Ivory” also marks the seventh movie he has worked with the producer in the last five years, and interestingly, it is the most expansive and ambitious project of them all. “This is the epitome of all that we have achieved up to now.”

This Makes The Trip A Couple’s Choice. After that first encounter, it was not a long time before the two sought to meet again. These events took place during the American Film Market in Santa Monica in 2016, and it was Swab who was attempting to promote his debut film ‘Let Me Make You a Martyr’ while Rosen had just started out as a producer with Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” and it was not long before they were in Swab’s city of Tulsa to raise money from local private equity investors for their companies. “In some shady lounge… I think we ordered some pans of seafood, Rosen recalls.” So we had a pitch and then there were HappyTeddy Bears even ‘Run With the Hunted’ , their first feature together that also starred Ron Perlman also one of the main actors, action crime drama that they started to put together.

Rosen asserts that he and John are rather a good match. He just happens, for example, to have been the entertainment manager and attorney of Boyz II Men, Aerosmith, Boy George and Frank Ocean etc. at some point purpose-driven.” Rosen explodes with laughter: “Not one of those credits, or maybe a few are, what we do here is in some level to guarantee us projects, unlike the managers that guarantee these people to go out and start nullifying them.” Rosen recalls: “It’s changed and thanks to then now we sit here with studios and streamers,” he explains. Rosen then also recalls that doing particular things separately — cutting the gap financing — ‘I’m the last resort – that’s me’ — has worked in their favor, doing away with some domestic opportunities for King Ivory that might have disrupted the project during the actors’ strike.”

Tulsa has long established itself as a filming location for many of Roxwell’s productions, alongside being Swab’s contacts hub, due to its tax incentives.

The Swab team is quite friendly and has been left in the hands of experienced people known to be a little mercenary in their demeanor but they have made quite the list of people to help open doors.

So, how do you expect to enter a building in the middle of the night? – The relations we forge in the land of our ancestors do a lot for us. Everyone around loves us. Our strong ties with the goal deceive us. We can easily blow up Tulsa’s downtown facilities with heavy machine guns weathered by a hundred-dollar bill, and here our techniques are more acceptable! ”

In the same way, in addition to the location, the actors and a number of regulars who do not leave after a successful cooperation (for example, after “King Ivory” the actor Leo starred in three of their films and Frank Grillo in four), there is quite another theme linking with other works once produced by Roxwell.

It is clear that in the films, crime, addiction, abuse, and necrosis are intermingling parts, which were taken from Swab’s life and are raw in its presentation than Sean Baker had even asked about Candy Land, a sex worker-themed movie, ending up hiring one of the actresses of that movie to play the lead role in his Cannes winning pono Anora. Swob admits to having been an opiate addict for 12 years and as his addiction was ending, fentanyl made its entrance into the US market. His friends have been victims to this addiction, with some of them getting sick or dying of overdose. But I did manage to regain sobriety, fix my life, and start directing movie pictures with Jeremy. This is what motivates King Ivory one of the street names of the substance fentanyl which additionally Swab further elucidates that … to say that it has really hurt the most people I know, and so wrote directed the script up, because after almost ten sobered years, he came to see a new facet of the problem indigenous to America: in a step of drug soldiers, border crosses…. cops or other people steeped in this part of life.

According to him, “It was fascinating. I was keen in discovering the conception behind the idea and the way in which every individual associated with it reasoned.” But, because of the fact that this movie has already been exhibited in Venice and garnered interest, this film may very well be the critical one for Swab and his production partner Rosen.

The producer had previously stated that Mahay Mako and Kingsyow together ‘King Ivory’ is ready to be launched and injects that the duo is in the mix for some studio projects with proper budgets. There is a work that has not been titled yet which is ‘King Ivory’ The TV series that was at least commenced, and Mando introduced them to his executive producer that was in charge of better call Saul and also the head of Sony Pictures Television which is Jeff Frost. The latter remarks, “In relation to your question, he’s interested in our series and he adores it and we’re working on our presentation with him.” While going to Los Angeles in the future may help the couple get agency representation.

While in Los Angeles, they were so busy with their current projects that there was no time for such niceties. But with their priorities being what they are, both Rosen and Swab in their defense say that there are quite a few scripts that they could “pull the trigger on” “we could start shooting tomorrow even”, have opted to go in for something they haven’t done since the last 8 years-old when they first met each other i.e. Time and patience.

The best way to put it in the context of what gets us into such a situation is, it’s blasphemous even to think such a thought — however, the time to wait seems to be the best choice, says Swab.

It is not the case that Swab is being unproductive however.

Here, the director has paused filming her music video starring wife Sam Quartin, vocalist and guitarist of the punk rock band The Bobby Lees (she appears in some of her husband’s movies, for example in ‘King Ivory’).

Regardless of whether it constitutes a further low-budget personal feature filmed in Oklahoma or a larger studio assisted initiative, this week of Venice has probably been the last one for the couple, who have filmed more than the majority of people do in two decades during the span of five years.

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