There’s a lot of really arduous action in the film, One of the big difference in this movie is that while usually heroes win all their battles, Hansel & Gretel get their butts kicked numerous times–Jeremy Renner.

I thought it would be great to work with Walter Hill on this type of buddy movie, which is a genre he knows well. Although, in this case, the main characters are not really buddies at all, but rather adversaries who have to work together against a mutual enemy because their lives depend on it. But out of that, an interesting relationship evolves–Stallone

Whenever I used to pitch the film to foreign investors, people had a hard time believing that the story was true, that these momentous events had actually happened in the late 1700’s–Director Arcel

I am not obsessed with exactitude. There’s historical with a capital H, this almost arm’s-length, dusty record of things, I wanted it to be vital and energetic. I wanted it to work as a Western, and I wanted it to work as an adventure film that would be thrilling and exciting to audiences–Tarantino

We all think that we know the ending. I was expecting, when they sent me the script, it would be like, “Yay! America!,” you know? “We did it!” It’s definitely not that. The last note of the film I found to be really deep and profound. And the fact that Kathryn ends the movie with a question, “Where do you want to go?” It’s bigger than Maya. It’s for everybody. And I found that incredible.