Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Josh Duhamel and director Allan Ungar about their work on ‘London Calling’, developing the screenplay, Duhamel’s character, Tommy and Julian’s friendship, working with Jeremy Ray Taylor, and Ungar's directing style.

Moviefone: To begin with, Allan, can you talk about developing the screenplay and the tone you were going for?

Allan Ungar: Yeah, it's funny, I got the script when Josh and I were on our last day of ‘Bandit’. I was battling jet lag. I was exhausted and it took me three weeks to read it, which is generally a pretty bad sign, but I fell in love with it. I think the element of a father-son story disguised as an action-comedy really appealed to me. So, we worked on the script for about a year because we were finishing post on ‘Bandit’, so it wasn't something I could do every day. It harked back to the films that I grew up on, like ‘Midnight Run’, the buddy cop genre. My cinematographer and I talked about tone when we were talking about the look of the film. So, thinking back to a lot of the seminal, Tony Scott, Michael Bay movies of the 90s was a pretty big influence. Then sort of borrowing a little bit from the Guy Ritchie genre because I feel like he's his own genre in a way.