Ecooterrorfokus of the new film ‘Cleaner,’ Director Talks ‘The Hard’ comparisons

Exclusive -“cleaner” is called a modern “dying”, but instead of German terrorists, the hero fights against eco-terrorists.

In “Cleaner” the actress Daisy Ridley “” Star Wars “Joey Locke, someone in the wrong place at the wrong place, plays a federal building in London when a group of radical activists. The eco-terrorists plan to disturb the annual gala of an energy company and To force their hostages to inform their cameras about their alleged corruption. Extremist in their ranks takes the matter into their own hands and has nothing but violence in the brain.

Ridley plays a former soldier who has converted window cleaners who is hung 50 floors when the radicals order the building. But while the comparisons of “dying”, director Martin Campbell said that the 1988 thriller was not really in the opinion.

“To be honest, by the way, I didn’t love the inspiration of ‘Die Hard’, which I loved by the way,” said Campbell, who also “Casino Royale,” said Fox News Digital. “You know, you will get the comparison because it is a skyscraper and it is a person against the evil if you see what I mean. So, of course there will be comparisons.”

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Actress Daisy Ridley and director Martin Campbell behind the scenes for “Cleaner”. (Photo with the kind permission of the cadher distribution)

“To be honest, we are very different,” continued Campbell. “You know, we have a protagonist who is Daisy in contrast to Bruce Willis. And I think they think is something completely different.”

Campbell said that environmental protection is one thing that is close to his heart, but only one of the leaders of the group in the film clearly had the right idea of ​​how to convey her message.

“I clearly mean it happens,” said Campbell about environmental dangers. “You know, we’re going into the abyss. No question. And of course you have Clive Owen, who is a kind of experienced activist in the film. And who, I think, is just the thing that means you have this special one Gala evening of a energy company that is corrupt and environmentally catastrophic with what you have done for the shaking of your shareholders to build the management team and to confess you and to bring this into the networks and so on.

But the villain of the film, Noah, played by Taz Skylar, changes the group’s message from a revolution to one of the billing. And the way to do this is that he considers to hunt everyone in the air.

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Director Martin Campbell behind the scenes for “Cleaner”. (Photo with the kind permission of the cadher distribution)

“Because he believes that the planet will only repair itself if everyone is wiped off the face of the earth, which of course is completely psychotic,” said Campbell about Noah. “But who knows that he may be right in the future. I mean, you know, maybe something will happen, that will happen – but of course that’s crazy now. I mean, totally psychotic. He believes that everything, everything. Including yourself to kill yourself is the way to make the great statement.

In recent years, environmental activists around the world have disturbed conferences, concerts, performances, important sporting events and more to raise awareness of their cause. Just hear that oil protesters have made themselves a habit of throwing ink in priceless paintings or having to disturb a performance by William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” with actress Sigourney Weaver in recent times.

In other cases, climate activists even thrown orange powder on Stonehenge, the old landmark in Wiltshire, England. And tennis fans will remember that in September 2023 a person from the extinction of the climate group during a game at the US Open glued his feet to the stadium floor of Arthur Ashe Stadium while he wore a shirt with the fossil fuels of the end.

Campbell said he and the leading men in his film would not go far enough.

“I remember that they blocked all motorways in London,” said Campbell. “There was a whole thing in which they were sitting and blocking on the highways, what was great. It took a week, right? And then it disappeared from the media. And then they went to something else. And, you know ,, Noah’s view is not changing.

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Daisy Ridley in a scene of “Cleaner”. (Photo with the kind permission of the cadher distribution)

When Ridley was asked about this difficult to escape “the hard” comparisons, she called “cleaner” a love letter to the Bruce Willis Classic.

“I mean, look, we called it ‘Dry Shard’,” Ridley told Men’s Journal. “Well, I called it ‘dry Shard’ I have the feeling that it is a love letter Die Hard in a way. But of course the most is what is going on with me (in “cleaner”) outside the building, and “Hard” is mainly due to it. But it really felt, yes, it felt like a love letter. “

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Campbell said Ridley was such a qualified action star that he hardly had to call them for her.

“Well, first of all she is very good in the plot,” said the director. “I mean, only intuitively it is very good. Second, they rehearse on their days off. While we shoot other things, she would rehearse these combat scenes, and she probably only made three weeks of rehearsing because she knows that there is nothing – You are all in real time, and I didn’t have to double it.

“Cleaner” is in the cinemas on Friday, February 21st.

FOX News’ Alba Cuebas-Fantuzzi contributed to this report.