?Hotel Artemis? writer and director Drew Pearce can?t stop raving about his A-list cast, especially the ones that pitched in some money in to elevate the low-budget production into what it turned out to be.
?We had no money, and no one was getting paid,? Pearce told TheWrap. ?This is literally a movie where Dave Bautista wanted to have a neck tattoo for his character and I didn?t have enough money to do that, but there was so much love in this movie that Dave surprised me and had the tattoo designed and had a guy come to set every day and put it on for him.?
Additionally, Pearce explained, Pearce ?bought the bank robber masks on my credit card. It?s that movie!?
Pearce said the film?s budget was $15 million, which he explains is a lot less than you make a movie for about a guy who goes to Idaho to see his family and ends up learning about himself.