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An Interview with Gregory Lamberson, Director of Guns of Eden

by Mike Haberfelner

December 2022

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Your new movie Guns of Eden - in a few words, what is it about?

 

Guns of Eden is about four campers who witness an execution and find themselves hunted by different factions of a militia. I’ve described it as Deliverance meets First Blood, because it’s a throwback to 70s survival films and 80s action films, and serves as the origin story for a female action hero.

 

What were your sources of inspiration when writing Guns of Eden?

 

Besides the films I already mentioned, the Cannon films of the 80s, Walter Hill movies, and John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13.

 

Do talk about Guns of Eden's approach to the thriller genre!

 

I wanted it to start out small, so the audience would think they knew where it was heading, and escalate things – it gets bigger and bigger, and we pull off some pretty ambitious moments, like our helicopter sequence. I also wanted the audience firmly on the side of my hero, Megan Forest.

 

You of course also have to talk about your movie's stunt and action scenes, and how were they achieved?

 

The two big hand-to-hand fight scenes were choreographed by Alexander McBryde, who’s an actor and a martial artist. He also choreographed two fight scenes in Johnny Gruesome, and he’s acted in all of my Buffalo films. I wrote fairly detailed descriptions of the scenes in my script, but he was free to deviate from what was on the page, and rehearsed with the actors without me, and then Chris Cosgrave, the cinematographer, had to figure out how to shoot them. The two fights are stylistically very different: the longer one is filmed with coverage, and the shorter one is done in one long take; both work exquisitely. But there are other types of action, too: foot chases, a car chase, a helicopter chase, gunfire exchanges. We used cold weapons at all times, and took safety very seriously, and Chris added muzzle flashed and blood spats in post.

 

A few words about your overall directorial approach to your story at hand?

 

I work hard at casting my pictures, and believe in working with the actors and cinematographer to get the most we can out of each scene with the limited amount of time we have. Sometimes I have a preconceived plan and we stick to it; sometimes we deviate from it; and sometimes we completely wing it, based on location needs and benefits. I try to be flexible and still make our day.

 

Do talk about Guns of Eden's key cast, and why exactly these people?

 

It’s a huge cast, 65 roles. The whole thing hinged on having the right person in the lead role. Alexandra Faye Sadeghian was recommended to us by John Woodruff (Animal Among Us). She’s a NYC based actor who impressed us with her audition and attitude, and did a great job, just really delivered and was great to work with. Most of the rest of the cast were local to Buffalo, where I live. Pete Johnson is someone I’ve worked with in different capacities, and I knew he would be great as Jeremy, Megan Forest’s police partner. For the villain, I didn’t want the fat small town sheriff, which would have been too close to First Blood; I wanted someone who looks like he could be the hero. I cast Bill Kennedy, a Niagara Falls actor I’ve known for years but never got to work with before. Both of these guys were great. And I always wanted Lynn Lowry to play Frances, the hermit in the woods, basically a western character. I’d worked with Lynn on two other films that I didn’t direct, and I wanted to work with her on that level. And then there are so many other people, like Dominic Luongo, Nicole Colon, Tim O’Hearn [Tim O'Hearn interview - click here] and Jessica Zwolak, just to name a few. We needed an army.

 

What can you tell us about Guns of Eden's pretty impressive outdoors locations, and what was it like filming there? And how did you find them even?

 

Chris and I wanted to make sure the locations stood out, because woods usually don’t, especially in independent films. We scouted a lot of local state parks, some of which I’d known about already. The most impressive one, with those big rock formations and crevices, was Little Rock City, which I visited as a kid. That one was 75 minutes away and very remote, with no bathrooms or electricity. We shot at Chestnut Ridge for five days, which was only 20 minutes away and had public bathrooms. The great thing about that park was that we just had to turn the camera around to get a completely different landscape, which saved time. We shot at another park half an hour away just to have a waterfall, and we jumped through hoops to shoot our opening in downtown Buffalo. So we definitely put in the effort.

 

A few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?

 

Every film I’ve made has been a fun shoot because I crew up and cast very carefully. It’s important to have the right array of people, both professionals and amateurs getting their feet wet, with no primadonnas or egomaniacs. Everyone was there because they wanted to make the film, not to get a paycheck. It was a very low budget film, needless to say.

 

Anything you can tell us about audience and critical reception of Guns of Eden?

 

We had maybe seven screenings total, and I attended all but one, in Puerto Rico. It’s an audience picture, so the reactions were excellent. Reviews are coming out now, and they’re about what I expect: the positive ones are from folks who love the movies that inspired me, and really like it, and the middling ones dismiss it as just another action movie. Since we made this for a specific niche of action fan, I can’t be upset when someone who doesn’t like those films thinks we just went through the motions on ours. Whatever, you know? I’ve been doing this for almost 40 years, my skin is pretty bulletproof. I know we made a solid, entertaining film on a ridiculously low budget.

 

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I wrote the screenplay for Showdown in Yesteryear, produced by Tim O’Hearn, who plays one of the killers in Guns of Eden. It stars Debra Lamb [Debra Lamb interview - click here], Vernon Wells, and Jeff Grennell, who’s also in Guns of Eden. That turned out great. I’m trying to raise money for a werewolf movie right now. I wanted to do it several years ago, but Widow’s Point happened first, and then the pandemic. Guns of Eden was more practical to do than the werewolf flick.

 

Your/your movie's website, social media, whatever else?

 

People can follow Guns of Eden on Facebook, and can follow me on Facebook at Gregory Lamberson Author and Filmmaker. I won’t be on Twitter much longer, I’m just riding it out to promote this film.

 

Thanks for the interview!

 

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